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Korean War. New Zealand. K Force training and departure

Date: Sep 1950, ca 1951

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-138

Description: Series of photographs taken by E Woollett of National Publicity Studios. All contain captions. Training at Linton - Early morning parade; marching formation; route march; PT exercises; rifle practice; battle training; sten gun training; rugby match between B & C troops; visit of General Stewart (General Officer Commanding NZ Forces); map reading; lesson in how to assemble a trip wire flare; photo of Colonel Thornton at his desk. Three photographs of soldiers in Korea - Sgt George Gallagher and Sgt Dick Evan (who both immigrated to NZ from UK); Bdr John McCauley of Hamilton. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Soldiers portraits, return to New Zealand, and Lake Waikaremoana

Date: 1915-1919

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PAColl-9855-1

Description: Loose prints associated with Jessie Mary Mackersey's album. These include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey, London ca 1917. Portrait of Wastel Briscoe born 1888-died Gallipoli 19 May 1915. Group of Soldiers of 24th Rifles, Featherston Military Camp. Group on the deck of `Prinzessan' en route for New Zealand, 1919. Colon and Church of Christ by the sea, 1919. Views of the Panama Canal and its technologies seen from the ship, 1919. Albert Memorial, London. Holiday at Lake Waikaremoana includes - View of the lake, Papakorito Falls, and friends of Lindsay Mackersey. Photographs of soldiers include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey with unidentified soldier. Studio portrait of Leslie Mackersey, Blake Mason and two unidentified soldiers, 1916. Group of unidentified soldiers probably in New Zealand. Voyage to New Zealand on `Prinzessan' via Panama Canal 1919, and holiday at Lake Waikaremoana. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverhusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand.

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Curtis family : Papers

Date: 1915-1918

By: Curtis family

Reference: MS-Papers-9234

Description: Collection comprises World War One letters from Michael Curtis in Egypt back to his family in Dannevirke. These letters describe his time in Egypt, visiting the pyramids and Cairo. Comments on fellow soldiers from Dannervirke that he has met including sons from the Allardice family. Describes living conditions at camp, and comments on periods when he has been recovering from battle wounds. Also includes further letters from or to other Curtis family members and ephemera concerning Michael Curtis' death. Source of title - Supplied by Library Papers concern Sergeant Michael Curtis who served with the Wellington Mounted Rifles in World War One, dying from wounds in 1917. Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss & printed matter

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Vietnam force training, Waiouru

Date: June 1965

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 35mm-18191-F

Description: The Vietnam force training at Waiouru. Photographed by Morris James Hill in June 1965 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

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Album relating to World War I

Date: 1917-1919

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-1060

Description: Photographs relating to Mr R V Kay. Includes photographs of 33rd Reinforcements training in Wairarapa, 1917 and at sea troopship life 1918 (Jan-Feb) on 'S.S. Athenic' via the Panama Canal. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 275 x 230 mm

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Vietnam force training, Waiouru

Date: June 1965

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 35mm-18194-F

Description: The Vietnam force training at Waiouru. Photographed by Morris James Hill in June 1965 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

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Album relating to 33rd Reinforcements, 1917

Date: 1914-1917

From: Kay, Reginald Vincent, 1894-1978 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1553

Description: Photographs relating to R V Kay and his training in the 33rd Reinforcements at Trentham and Featherston military training camps during World War I. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - top centre - W.W.I. 33rd Reinforcements, 1917, Camps Trentham, Featherston, etc. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 140 x 165 mm

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Vietnam force training, Waiouru

Date: June 1965

From: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and personalities

Reference: 35mm-18193

Description: The Vietnam force training at Waiouru. Photographed by Morris James Hill in June 1965 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip with 2 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

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Don Peat's photograph album

Date: 1936-1941

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1794

Description: Don Peat's own album aquired when he was 15 years old. Contents include - Group of schoolboys and a De Haviland aircraft at Wigram in 1936. The Merivale boy scouts, Christchurch, 1937. Portrait of St Mary's Church, St Albans, Christchurch, 1937. Governor General, Lord Galway at presentation of a new guiden (flag) to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, Hagley Park, 1937. Wellington Railway Station. World War One field gun. Flying boat on Wellington harbour. Nazi flag on the last German ship to come to Wellington before the Second World War, ca 1939. Ocean liner `Strathmore,' at Wellington wharves. Portrait of Bob Semple. Don Peat with friends and in military uniform, 1939-1940. Soldiers, Second World War, in Wellington. Views of the Nurses Home, Wellington Hospital. Don Peat and his parents, Whanganui 1940. Soldiers in training, Trentham, 1940. Views of the ship `Doric Star' sunk in 1940. Soldiers in training at Waiouru, 1941. This includes a group of photographs recording a comic mock battle enacted by soldiers. Soldiers on leave in Christchurch, May 1941. Hand coloured images of Maori men posing as `old time' warriors, 1939. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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Family photograph album

Date: [ca 1925]-1941

From: Peat family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1793

Description: Large number of family photographs taken in New Zealand and England. These include young people swimming in the sea, a wedding, and Minnie Gray who was Beatrice Peat's aunt. Group of photographs of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition at Rongatai, Wellington, 1939-1940. Crowds lining Lambton Quay watching floats in the Queen Carnival parade, 1941. Soldiers crowding at the windows of a troop train. A visit to Whakarewarewa. Group of photographs of Samoa and Samoans. Photographs taken somewhere in the Pacific during the Second World War. A trip to Christchurch,ca 1925. Tramping on the Volcanic Plateau. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donated by Jennie Jones, Wellington, 2012. Donor is the daughter of Don and Beatrice Peat.

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Creater unknown :Photographs of New Zealand, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands, WWII

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

Reference: PA1-o-1521

Description: Photographs of artillery training at Waiouru, 1940; practice amphibious landings in Vanuatu; and NZ troops at Guadalcanal, Vella Lavella and Nissan Island, taken & collected by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 310 x 190 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009 Transfers: Transfers - Collection as a whole received by Photographic Archive other material transferred to Ephemera from here. - To Ephemera Collection - Souvenir Programme - The Kiwi Concert Party (Pacific) presents 'Pacific Roundabout' 1944 (Eph-A-VARIETY-1944-02).

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Photographs of World War One soldiers, and the Royal Tour 1953-1954.

Date: [ca1914]-1954

From: Featherstone, Paul, fl 2006 :Photographs of World War I soldiers and the Royal Tour 1953-1954

Reference: PAColl-8952-1

Description: New Zealand soldiers, World War One. Unloading oysters, Bluff. Royal tour decorations and the Queen on the wharf, Bluff. Woburn, Lower Hutt, from the air. Mrs Elinor Roosevelt at the Ford Motor Co, Gracefield, Lower Hutt. Souvenier photographs of Auckland and Invercargill. Postcard view of the Centennial Exhibition, Rongatai, Wellington, 1939-1940. Unidentified stone church, Queenstown. Unidentified wrecked ship. Unidentified suburban houses. World War Two army encampment. Japanese Commander signing surrender after the fall of Singapore to the Allies. Lord Louis Mountbatten speaking in Singapore. Building belonging to S.Ward (NZ) Ltd. Clock tower, Sumner, Christchurch. Views of Picton. Quantity: 57 b&w original photographic print(s) 21 prints on 5 album pages.

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Panorama of New Zealand medical personnel at Waiouru

Date: 1940

From: Robinson family: Papers relating to World War One and World War Two

Reference: PA6-698

Description: A panorama of medical personnel attached to the 2nd Echelon, Second World War. Photographed by an unknown photographer at Waiouru in 1940. Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s).

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Le Quesne, Fred, fl 1914-1960 :Photographs of soldiers, women, English towns, and New Z...

Date: 1914-1960

By: Le Quesne, Fred, active 1914-1960; Hubbard, Alastar, active 2006

Reference: PAColl-8828

Description: Photograph album which includes photographs of World War 1 soldiers, women, English towns and countryside, and New Zealand coastal ships.. Soldiers include a group taken in a paddock during a break on the way to Greytown, another in the grounds of a hospital or park in England, and individual soldier portraits. Women's portraits appear throughout the album. One appears more often than the others. Her name is Hepsey Egerton, an English woman whoes married name was Dalkin. Two packets of photographs sent by her to Fred Le Quesne in about the 1980s, came loose in the album. Postcards of English towns include Gnosall, Stafford, Ross, Monmouth, and Great Malvern. The New Zealand shipping is mainly pictures of ketches, scows, some other sailing ships, and views of ships at unidentified ports. Other ships are passenger liners of the 1930s period, and iron hulled sailing ships, all photomechanical prints mostly from photographs by J H Kinnear. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-112459-F to 1/2-112466-F, and 35mm-82822 to 35mm-82823. Quantity: 1 album(s). Transfers: Transfer information - From Published Collections.

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Panoramic photograph of No 4 Coy, 209 Battalion

Date: 1942

From: Heenan, Maria :Panoramic photograph of No 4 Coy, 209 Battalion

Reference: PA6-655

Description: Panoramic photograph of No 4 Company, 209 Battalion taken at Pauatahanui Military Camp by an unknown photographer in 1942 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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New Zealand soldiers bound for Vietnam at Waiouru

Date: 18 June 1965

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1965/2099-F

Description: Soldiers of the 161st Battery lined up at Waiouru being addressed by the Governor General, Sir Bernard Fergusson, prior to leaving for Vietnam. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 18th of June 1965. The 161st Battery served in Vietnam from June 1965 to May 1975. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

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Robinson family : Leonard (Jack) Robinson's photographs relating to World War Two

Date: 1939-1943

From: Robinson family: Papers relating to World War One and World War Two

By: Robinson, Leonard Rennell James, 1919-2000

Reference: PAColl-8746

Description: Comprises photographs taken and collected by Leonard Rennell James Robinson who took part in World War Two in the Middle East Force. Includes photographs of army personnel in New Zealand in 1939; on the "Aquitania" about to leave for Britain; other transports which they joined in convoy which include the "Queen Mary," the "Empress of Canada," the "Empress of Japan," and the "Andes;" ports of call at Cape Town and Sierra Leone, and a view of the transports entering the Clyde at the end of their journey. A few images show a group of soldiers in camp at Aldershot, and ambulance training on the Kent Coast. Four images show the vapour trails of fighter planes in the sky over England. War in the desert is recorded by images of an ambulance being loaded; motor vehicles on a desert highway; an encampment; a scorpion; unexploded bombs in the sand; Italian prisoners of war; wrecked German tanks and aircraft; dead Germans; cemeteries in the desert. Another group relate to a camp at Helwan and a military hospital; Robinson and friends in camp and on leave; rain in the desert, and an air raid over Alexandria. Quantity: 54 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) panorama. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1113, Robinson family papers.

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Troops training and parading in New Zealand

Date: 1939-1941

From: Marriott, Forrest Aitken, 1904-1960 :Photographs relating to World War Two

Reference: PAColl-8288

Description: Photographs taken and collected by journalist and photographer Forrest Aitken Marriott. Included are troops parading in Wellington in 1940; the 1st and 3rd echelons leaving Wellington on troopships; troops training at locations around the Wellington coast; troops training and parading at Trentham Militaty Camp and Waiouru Military Camp; photographs of the Dominion Monarch, the Rangitira, and the Strathaird. Quantity: 46 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Crump, Douglas :Album of photographs taken and collected by Douglas Ronald Crump

Date: 1940-1944

By: Crump, Douglas Ronald, 1919-1944; Crump, William, active 1950s; Crump, Douglas, active 2000

Reference: PA1-q-764

Description: Photographs taken and collected by 2nd Lieutenant Douglas Ronald Crump prior to his death at La Luna, Italy, 7 August 1944. Album comprises: Photographs of the grave of Douglas Ronald Crump at La Luna, Italy, with Brigadier S H Crump Scenes in Papakura Camp, 1940 Scenes of farewell parade for 5th reinforcements at Auckland Domain, 1941 Scenes on convoy to Middle East, showing ships Nieuw Amsterdan and Mauretania, and views of Sydney and Colombo. Scenes in camp at Maadi and Helwan, Egypt, June 1941; pyramids and sphinx; Divisional swimming sports; manoeuvres; Cairo; Alexandria; No 1 NZ Convalescent Depo, Alexandria; Sinai Desert; Syria; Palestine; Lebanon, Beirut; Damascus; Palmyra; Jerusalem, Bethlehem; Haifa; Tel Aviv Visits to ancient Egyptian sites, including Luxor, the temples at Karnak, the tomb of Tutankhamun, the temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu, and Thebes Scenes on the Nile, including the Assuan Dam, and a BOAC flying boat landing Sporting events, including a rugby match between 4th NZ Armoured Brigade and Welsh representatives at Maadi, 3 Feb 1943; Brigade athletics meet, Littoria Stadium, Cairo, 5 April 1943 Scenes at Officer Cadet Training Unit (OCTU) Views of Bari, Rome and Florence Portraits of Douglas Ronald Crump Album consists of photographs taken and collected by Douglas Ronald Crump (1919-1944) prior to his death, and compiled into an album by his brother, William Crump. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cloth bound album with red morrocco spine and corners, 28.5 x 33.5 cm

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Creator unknown :Photographs relating to New Zealand's involvement in World War I

Date: 1909-1919

Reference: PAColl-7879

Description: Albums containing postcards relating to the service of New Zealanders in World War One. Consists mostly of studio portraits of soldiers taken in New Zealand and overseas and in military camps, but also includes several photographs of sailors taken ca 1910. Many of the postcards have notes or letters written on the reverse. Quantity: 2 album(s). Physical Description: Ring binder albums 35 x 33 cm

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