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Date: 30 June 1943-31 Dec 1944

By: Hanrahan, Pauline Noele, 1917-2007

Reference: MS-Papers-5545

Description: Hanrahan qualified as a registered nurse in 1940 and joined the New Zealand Army Nursing Service in July 1943. She sailed the same month from Wellington as a nurse aboard the Dutch hospital ship `Oranje'. During 1943 and early 1944 the `Oranje' made several trips between Port Said and South Africa and Australia and New Zealand. In the later part of 1944 the `Oranje' travelled mainly between the United Kingdom and Italy carrying wounded military personnel. Hanrahan left the ship in Cairo in Dec 1944 and served in the Cairo Number One General Hospital for the remainder of her war service. The diaries cover the period 30 June 1943-31 December 1944 and describe her experiences aboard the `Oranje'. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)

Date: 6 July 1993 - 06 Jul 1993

From: National Council of Women: Narratives from a century - oral history project

By: Sandford, Gladys Anne, 1909-2002

Reference: OHInt-0387/22

Description: Gladys Anne Sandford (Sandy) born Napier. Gives details of her parents who were South Islanders, her father's jewellery shop which burnt down and the family farm in Taranaki. Was only member of family to have secondary education - refers to Government financial assistance. Describes Manaia School, the large Maori roll, sport and the curriculum. Recalls soup kitchens, general unemployment and being out of work herself for a year during the Depression. Mentions New Zealand Wars with reference to Ernie Betts, a neighbour, who fought. Describes her family, the Manaia community and leisure including birthdays and picnics. Discusses nursing career and training in both theatre and maternity nursing. Worked for Army Base Hospital, taking her to Fiji, Cairo and Bari, Italy (3 years). Recalls introduction to penicillin. Describes typhoid outbreak in Cairo and gives details of nursing in Cairo. On returning to civilian life took job in charge of Maternity Annex in Lower Hutt for nineteen years. Comments on nurses' pay. Talks about working for Plunket and helping set up the nursing degree. Talks about involvement with the National Council of Women in the Hutt and her experience as President of the Hutt Branch. Describes input into health issues in NCW. Gives reasons for the setting up of the Polynesian Festival. People mentioned include: Mary Dowse, Hilda Burke, Mrs Murphy and Marion Akroyd. Discusses importance of women's demands for Equal Rights. Mentions looking after her mother from 1946 to 1970. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Howick Interviewer(s) - Mary Tallon Venue - Howick Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1458.

Date: 2 Nov 1998 - 5 Nov 1998

By: Foster, Susan E, 1946-; Webb, Margaret, 1914-2001

Reference: OHColl-0552-1

Description: Margaret Webb was born in Christchurch in 1914, the daughter of photographer Steffano Webb and Beatrice Webb (nee Buss). Describes her mother as very musical. Talks about her father's photographic studio and the nature of his photography which included portraits, wedding, debutante and school photos. Describes his huge camera. Recalls attending St. Margaret's College and Rangi Ruru. Describes social events where she was usually chaperoned. Talks about her decision to become a nurse, her desire to travel and her nursing training. Recalls going to Sydney on the `Wanganella' in May 1939 and then on to London on the `Ormond'. Notes that she travelled with her architect friend Margaret Munro. Describes her impressions of London and first nursing job at Kensington. Recalls concerns about the likelihood of war, its outbreak and the change in London. Describes signing up for Queen Alexandra's nursing service, being called up immediately, going to Aldershot and then France. Describes her feelings about this, loneliness, discomfort and fever from injections. Recalls being lectured on running a ward, setting it up and nursing for some months before action. Describes air raid warnings and being shifted to a tented hospital just before their station and hospital ship were bombed. Talks about refugees everywhere, going to another hospital, wearing tin hats and gas masks and tracer bullets while going down to the wharf and leaving France. Mentions arriving in Liverpool and some brief leave before being called up again and going on the troopship `Empress of Canada' which carried Scottish soldiers. Describes sailing to Egypt and going to the Sudan. Discusses wearing a white uniform and topee in incredible heat and going across the desert in army trucks. Notes that this was the Eritrean campaign and her hospital was the 32nd General Hospital. Recalls the hero of the campaign was Brigadier Slim who became a patient. Describes the social life in Khartoum including dancing on the banks of the Nile. Recalls British ships coming up the Nile carrying tanks and the arrival of General Montgomery. Describes being posted to Palestine, Gaza and then the hospital ship `Oranje' to South Africa. Talks about being posted to No. 1 General Hospital on the Nile, returning to England as a theatre nurse in Dorset, and being en route to a new posting in Lahore on VE Day. Notes that she had become a Captain. Recalls being posted to Assam and then Gauhati for the rest of the war and treating emaciated soldiers from the Burma Road. Comments on leave while nursing and lifelong friends made as a result of the war. Recalls returning to New Zealand in 1946 and the difficulties of settling down. Describes working in the plastics unit at Burwood. Mentions Dr. Manchester. Talks about studying maternity nursing and going to Gisborne before doing Plunket training in Dunedin and nursing in Ashburton and Christchurch. Interviewer(s) - Susan Foster Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2492.

Date: 2000 - 01 Jan 2000

By: Olorenshaw, Irene Gwenevere, 1910-2002; Cooper, Joyce, active 2001

Reference: OHColl-0532/1

Description: Irene Olorenshaw was a nurse in Oamaru from 1936. During World War II she nursed in Egypt, Palestine and Italy. She was the Matron of Oamaru Hospital from 1945-1964. Publication - The soldier and the nurse; from Waimate memories of wartime service. Complied by Joyce Cooper. Waimate Historical Society; c 2004 Sponsored by - Waimate Historical Society Interviewer(s) - Joyce Cooper Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007774 - OHC-007777 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Waimate Historical Society

Date: [ca 1915-1979]

From: Buckley, John David, 1901-1983 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10087

Description: Contains photographs relating to Buckley's sister, Agnes Buckley, who served as a nurse during World War II. Many are of, or include, her. Images are taken by unidentified photographers (possibly including Agnes Buckley and Ron J Moore) with identified photographers John Buckley and Lieutenant C J Justins, ca 1915 to 1979. Photographs mainly relate to Agnes's service during World War II. These feature the time leading up to her departure (including the Waitomo Caves exhibition at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition and family scenes), tourist sites and street scenes in Egypt (including the Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza), fellow nurses and soldiers, and Agnes's funeral in Italy in 1944. There are a number of formal portraits. Miscellaneous images include a Wellington Bomber aircraft crashed on railway lines in Libya and the troopship 'Aquitania' docked in Wellington. Some images of Egypt are hand coloured. Additionally, Agnes's nursing training and work at Taihape Hospital before the war, and family life, are covered. These images include formal portraits. Images of the Taihape War Memorial, and an unidentified group gathered around her framed portrait in the 1970s, are also included. Contains two original enclosures, both of which are annotated. Some prints contain information on the rear. Other - some of these prints have come loose from albums PA1-o-1804 to PA1-o-1807. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: [between 1939 and 1945]

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10007

Description: A set of photographs relating chiefly to Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel during World War II, collected by Brent Mackrell from a range of sources. Comprises group and individual portraits taken in unidentified locations, probably out of New Zealand. Includes interior and exterior views of unidentified airbases, showing barracks, training rooms, and airstrips. The subjects are all unidentified, except for a portrait of Reginald 'Reg' William Barker, a pilot for the RNZAF, who is photographed sitting in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. Contains a photograph of a man and woman at a wedding reception (taken by Royal Canadian Air Force photographer), which has written on the reverse: 'At reception in Tudor Room, Chateau Laurier Hotel, 9 September 1942' Includes a photograph of the grave of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore, in Napier Cemetery, Hospital Hill, Napier. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2063: Mackrell, Brent, 1939-: Collected papers relating to war and other topics.

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-1723

Description: One album of photographs and postcards, probably compiled by Elizabeth Porteous of the NZANZ (New Zealand Army Nursing Service) who was awarded the ARRC (Associate Royal Red Cross). These are mainly postcards of her travels in England and Scotland during World War I. Also contains some images related to nursing work. The photographs relating to military nursing work include group portraits of patients and staff at a military hospital, two taken during Christmas celebrations. There are also two photographs of an interior of a large industrial building being used as a dormitory, probably to house soldiers. Subjects and locations are all unidentified. Postcards include: Views of Edinburgh, Scotland, include Edinburgh Castle, Craigmillar Castle, The Abbey Strand, St Giles Cathedral, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and Arthur's Seat, Queen Margaret's Chapel, and the 'audience room' at the former residence of John Knox. Views of Bath, Somerset, England, include Bath Abbey, the Grand Pump Room Hotel, and Roman colonnades. Views of Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England, the location of No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, and including views of the Rose and Crown Hotel. Views of Christchurch, Dorset, include the Christchurch Priory Church, Constable's Ruin (Constable's House), Highcliffe Castle, and a thatched cottage at Wick Ferry. Views of the county of Kent, England, include the pier, promenade and time ball at Deal, also Canterbury Cathedral, and the town of Sandwich. Miscellaneous New Zealand scenes include two photographs taken by Muir and Moodie: The Green Lake, Rotorua, and Dannevirke railway station, taken 1 Apr 1912. There is also a postcard with the photographer identified as 'Daroux' (probably either Louis John Daroux or James Henry Daroux), taken 28 August 1916, showing WWI troops from the 18th regiment reinforcements marching over Rimutaka Hill, Wellington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hard-covered photograph album, maroon in colour, 26.5 x 21.5 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2063: Mackrell, Brent, 1939-: Collected papers relating to war and other topics.

Date: [ca 1927-1951]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-199

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, late 1920s-1950s. New Zealand people in the news - Campbell Island meteorological station personnel; Watkins family of Hastings (champions in three sports), 1939; Hon W E Parry & Hon Walter Nash at celebrations to mark Lower Hutt becoming at city in 1941; Bishop Cherrington, Rev G H Scurr & Rev L K Collins, 1931; Captain S G Stringer, 1927; Colonel A W Orsborn & family; Mrs Ellingham of Dannevirke; Mrs Basilia Schulte-Baeuminghaus & daughter Ira (of Bavaria); Len Hodge (Canterbury junior diving champion) with John McCormack, USA; MPs J A McL Roy, T L MacDonald & A S Sutherland, 1949; John Smith (pilot instructor), 1937. Photographs relating to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Phillip, 1947 Photograph of Mr B Lusk (solicitor), Mrs Bayley, Mr R E Fawcett (solicitor) and Mrs Bayley's father, T Palmer arriving at the Supreme Court Auckland during the trial of William Alfred Bayley, who was charged with the murder of S P Lakey and his wife at Ruawao, May 1934. Jubilee Exhibition of Canterbury College of Art - Former directors examining a portrait by R Wallwork of Robert Herdman Smith (director of the Art School in 1905). Directors are Gordon H Elliott, Frederick Gurnsey, Archibald F Nicoll and R Wallwork. Archibald F Nicholl painting the portrait of George Harper, 1932; Frank Callaway (Director of King Edward Technical College); Colonel A W Orsborn, new Chief Secretary for Salvation Army in New Zealand, & family, 1933; Canterbury pioneers at Bridle Path Memorial Service - John Chapman, Rev F G Brittan, Richard Evans, 1939. Wynne Smith, song-writer; group photograph of Brigade Commander & Commanding Officers and staff of 6th Infantry Brigade NZEF, 1940 (named on verso); nurses at Waiouru Camp Hospital (named on verso), 1951; Officers and staff of Waiouru military camp, 1951 (named on verso); Senior officers of Dental Services at Burnham (Lt-Col W M Ford, Lt G W Stanley & Major E B Reilly), 1950; Grant-Dalton Trophy awarded to Wellington (No 2) Squadron in 1950 - Leading Aircraftman W M Whitehead with Squadron Leader Oldfield & Group Captain F R Dix; Miss Kane, Mrs Burrell, Mrs Ross & Mr Duckworth Barker UNESCO at Pan-Pacific Conference; group photograph of members of the council of the New Zealand Educational Institute at the annual conference held in Dunedin, 1948 (named on verso); family group photo taken at Hope Gibbons Golden Wedding, 1931. Group photo of Mr A G Harper, Mr & Mrs H B Burdekin, Sir Howard & Lady Kippenberger, General Young, Mr & Mrs W S Lett. Two photographs relating to lighthouse on Portland Island, off Mahia Peninsula (article in NZ Free Lance, 12 Apr 1950, p 17); eight photos and undated letter about life of a New Zealander who married the lighthouse keeper at Pine Islet, Queensland, Australia. Overseas people in the news - John Foster Dulles, President Truman's special representative & Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary, 1951; Harold MacMillan, Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, General Lord Ismay, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, and Lord Leathers, Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport etc; Anthony Eden and others, 1951; Price & Princess Paul of Serbia & baby son; General Eisenhower; Earl Haig; Gladys Cooper & Sir Neville Pearson; group at christening of Sally, daughter of Sir Neville & Lady Pearson (Gladys Cooper); Marshall Tito at Centotaph in Whitehall, 1953; Flight-Lieut George Stainforth; Auriol family; aerial view of Singapore showing Raffles Museum & Library, 1950; Dr Otto Schmidt, 1937; Ruling princes of India in London; Dutch swimmers G Galliard & Irma Schumacher, 1951; Major `Wid' Watson (famous jungle fighter), 1944; Korean internees return to Britain, 1953. Quantity: 64 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1939-1947

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-158

Description: Photographs published in NZ Free Lance between 1939 and 1947. Includes: visit of `Bellona', 1946; visit to NZ of H.M. aircraft-carrier Theseus, 1947; Colonel & Mrs Fisher with Captain J Kendall; sailors of R.N.V.R; ANZAC parade at Wellington (1940) & Auckland (1950); group photo of staff of Casualty Clearing-Station in Wellington taken at the time it closed in Apr 1946; arrival of Wrens in Wellington (named on back), Aug 1946; official farewell party held at Allied Forces Club in Wellington, Apr 1946; group photo of RSA delegates to Dominion RSA conference held in Wellington, Jul 1946; Battle of Britain commemoration services at St Matthews, 1947; Victory tower, Jun 1946. Also departure of 1st Echelon (Westport, Greymouth); NZ Unit training in England in 1940 (NZers who were living in England when war broke out volunteered for service). Trailer ambulance for the Hamilton Home Guard made by A M Bisley & Co, 1942. Series of photographs related to rehabilitation of ex-servicemen. Includes photos of training-farm at Milson, near Palmerston North; tools available from the Rehabilitation Department for returned servicemen who require them for trade or household use (Dec 1947). Group photograph of sergeants mess HMNZHS Maunganui, Oct 1945 Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1940-1945

From: Lewis, Lorrie Lionel, 1917-2001 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1610

Description: Photograph album compiled by Lorrie Lionel Lewis who served as a signalman during World War II. The album is dedicated to fellow signalman Laurie H Sweetman who died 23 October 1942. Includes photographs of the Lewis family in New Zealand, Lewis at Trentham camp, voyage on board the 'Aquitania', scenes in Ceylon and Egypt, on leave in Palestine, prisoner of war in Germany, scenes in London and Petone in 1945 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 24 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1937-[1945]

From: McGregor, Elizabeth Isabella Muriel, 1900-1989 : Letters from Grace Hall and James H Young

Reference: MS-Papers-10671-1

Description: Comprises letters from Grace Hall, friend of McGregor, from Cook Hospital, Gisborne (1937), and then when she was on active nursing service in WWI in the Middle East Forces. Includes letters from camp before sailing, on the ship, at the hospital in Egypt and on a hospital ship in the Mediterranean. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 27 April 1993 - 27 Apr 1993

From: Nursing in World War II oral history project

By: Sandford, Gladys Anne, 1909-2002

Reference: OHInt-0110/1

Description: Gladys Anne (Sandy) Sandford born Napier. Outlines family background and gives reasons for choosing nursing as a career. Mentions Depression. Talks about preliminary training at New Plymouth Hospital before continuing at Stratford Hospital. Mentions fever hospital, accidents and injuries from timber mill. Talks about patient care, infections before penicillin, and x-rays. Discusses leave and dances. Recalls enlisting in Army on the first day of war, training at Trentham and going to Helwan outside Cairo. Describes hospital and operating theatre. Gives details of the work and conditions, war injuries, wounds and diseases. Talks about furlough at home, returning to Cairo and then going to Cassino, Italy. Discusses the staff, the arrival of VADs and tensions among the staff. Talks about saline baths, infections and treatment and dysentry. Mentions social life. Describes experiences in Japan 1945-1946. Recalls returning to midwifery. Mentions mother's illness. Talks about unions and exploitation of nurses. Venue - Howick : 1993 Interviewer(s) - Valerie Fisher Venue - Chilton Place Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006399 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1488.

Date: 14 Dec 1988

From: The Matriarchs Oral History Project

By: Manoy, May Marie, 1913-1993

Reference: OHInt-0048/07

Description: May Manoy was born 7 December 1913. Discusses the family business in Motueka, A. Manoy and Son Drapery Store. Talks about her father, a successful merchant, his garden and the home she grew up in in Motueka. Describes her Polish and German heritage on her paternal side. Describes her mother May Newman, her education and death after childbirth. Discusses her memories of the Jewish community in the Motueka and Nelson area and her experience of being Jewish in small town New Zealand. Recalls her own interests as a child and family recreation. Discusses her father's second marriage to an artist from London, Mina Arndt, who took on the role of mother and also taught May art. Recalls Mina Arndt's death from influenza and their move to Karori. Talks about her education at Samuel Marsden School, her favourite teacher Nell Clere and her sex education. Talks about the birth of brother John and living with Mina's sister and brother-in-law Jenny and Philip Nathan. Discusses her love of music and classical education which included learning to dance with Estelle Beere and studying to be a singer with Mrs Gibb. Discusses her Karitane nursing training in depth and the Truby King home in Melrose. Discusses Plunket nurses and the types of milk used for babies. Talks about Karitane nursing in 1930-1931, her registered nursing training at Fulham Hospital in Charing Cross in England, nursing in England during the Blitz, serving in the British Liberation Army in the 108 British General Hospital in France and Brussells and being the sister in charge in the Queen Alexandria Nursing Service. Describes blackouts in Paris and London and travel experiences in Europe during the war. Talks about Karitane nursing in France. Describes returning to New Zealand on the troop ship `Athlone Castle' and her subsequent hospitalisation due to injury during the war. Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004129-OHC-004132 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Transcript(s) available OHA-1631 and OHDL-000570.

Date: 9 Dec 1991 - 09 Dec 1991

From: Women in World War II Part I

By: Studholme, Janet Helen, 1910-2003

Reference: OHInt-0060/02

Description: Janet Studholme was born in Waimate on 23 August 1910. Describes the arrival of her grandfather, Michael Studholme, as the first European in the Waimate area. Talks about their property `Te Waimate' which he took in 1854 and describes the family's activity in the local community. Recalls leisure activities which included horse riding, camping in the Central Otago lakes district and shooting. Talks about serving with the VAD in Waimate before volunteering as a nurse with the WAAC. Describes training at Trentham before being shipped to Egypt. Gives details of serving in the hospital based at Maadi and also recalls off duty activities including travel to Palestine, Syria and the Turkish border. Describes being shifted to Italy in March 1944 and nursing at the Bari Base Hospital. Comments on the depressed nature of the New Zealand soldiers after Cassino and attempts at raising their morale. Recalls leave in the area. Recalls returning to New Zealand on compassionate leave in 1945 and the difficulty of settling back into civilian life. Describes returning to Britain with the Victory Contingent in 1946. Describes being the National Director of Junior Red Cross for over seventeen years. Comments on the role of the matron in hospitals during the war and the importance of discipline and leadership. Venue - Wellington : 1991 Interviewer(s) - Johanna Woods Venue - Karori, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004678; OHC-004679; OHC-004680 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 821.

Date: 24 March 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000240-F

Description: Four unidentified Maori nurses from the St John's voluntary ambulance organisation at Awahou for the opening of Tawakeheimoa, the Centennial Memorial meeting house at Te Awahou Marae, Lake Rotorua, taken by John Dobree Pascoe on 24 March 1943. Note on back of print in War Effort collection reads: "Place - Rotorua L Te Awahou" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1914-1918]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-017668-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: [1914-1918]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-017667-G

Description: Photograph taken by an unidentified photographer employed or contracted by 'The Press' newspaper of Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.