Places

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Carey, George Jackson, 1822-1872

Reference: E-372-f-002

Description: View of the military camp at Tauranga with Mount Maunganui shown in the distance. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 45, July 1864, p.92 by Brigadier G Carey Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 217 x 363 mm

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Carey, George Jackson, 1822-1872

Reference: E-372-f-023

Description: View of the military camp at Tauranga with Mount Maunganui shown in the distance. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, V. 45, July 1864, p.92 by Brigadier G Carey Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 217 x 363 mm on page 375 x 250 mm

Date: 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-433-002

Description: The top image shows a view of the graves of Lieut-Col. Booth and officers and men of the 43rd Regt, killed at Tauranga. Mount Maunganui in background, with ships Esk, Harrier and Jason in harbour. Based on a drawing by E A Williams. The lower images shows British troops in the foreground behind trees, and in a trench leading up towards a hilltop pa, where a British flag can be seen flying. The smoke of gunfire can be seen from several points around the pa. Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 398 x 274 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.

Date: 1864

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-024

Description: Shows a fenced burial ground with 4 headstones and a cross, on a headland facing Mt Maunganui in the distance. Inscription on verso of backing paper: Sandy Point / St. of Magellan / 18 to 21 December 1881. / Buoy indicating wreck of H.M.S. "Doterel" 1881 (blown up by accident). Other Titles - Tauranga NZ Other Titles - Graves of officers & men who fell at the attack on Gate Pa, New Zealand on 29 April 1864. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - HS (monogram in ink); Recto - bottom left - (In ink): 1862? changed to 1863 or 1864 or 5?; Recto - beneath image - (On mount in ink): Burial ground at Tauranga of those killed at the Gate Pah Tepapa on 29 April 1864/ Commander Hay of H.M.S. Harrier. 4 Officers of the 43Regt & Seamen & Soldiers of 43 & 68 Regt.; Verso - centre - Graves of officers & men who fell at the attack on the Gate Pah, New Zealand on 29 April 1864 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 242 x 372 mm, mounted on sheet 305 390 mm.

Date: 1868

From: Artist and photographers unknown :[Watercolours of the Bay of Plenty and thermal regions, Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands, and Ireland; photographs of Dover, a Belgian monument, Ireland and New Zealand bush, 1866-1868]

Reference: A-443-015-1

Description: Shows a view of the monument commemorating 26 men of the 43rd Regiment who were killed in action or died of wounds received at Pukehinahina (Gate Pa) and Te Ranga in mid-1864. The monument itself is in the foreground on the right, with the white pickets of the cemetery showing in front of it. A number of trees, including cabbage trees and flax bushes, stand prominently to its left. From the headland Mount Maunganui can be seen in the background. Although not the same scene, this might usefully be compared to Henry Ambrose Scrivener's Burial ground at Tauranga New Zealand of those killed at the Gate Pah... 1864 (B-064-024) and Andrew Thomas H. Carbery's Cemetery at Te Papa, Tauranga (E-248-q-096), which show similar views prior to the monument's erection. Other Titles - Gate Pa Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Monument of the 43rd killed at the Gate Pah Tauranga [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 134 x 245 mm

Date: 1863-1864

From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: PA1-f-046

Description: Album compiled by Spencer Perceval Talbot Nicholl when he was serving with the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry during the New Zealand wars. The photographs were chiefly taken by John Kinder and by Daniel Manders Beere, in the Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty areas. Many of the views have no captions, but can be identified in comparison with images known to have been taken by these photographers. Views identified include Mr. Ashwell's church at Taupiri (Rev. Benjamin Yate Ashwell); thatched buildings; flagstaff at Ngaruawahia; the monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; a carved stern-post of a waka; and a group of Maori men. Some, but not all, photos taken by Kinder. Inscriptions: Album page - `S.P.T. Nicholl (subsequently Lieut-Col), 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Album compiled probably about 1863/4' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with mottled blue cover, brown leather spine with gold bands; 35 x 42 cm