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Date: [1914-1918]

From: Warburton, Edward Darien :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1602

Description: Photographic postcard album compiled by E D Warburton. Includes photographs of family, soldiers, rugby, fencing and prisoners of war during the Great War. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 25.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1943-2000

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: Series-2328

Description: Quantity: 41 folder(s).

Date: [1943]

Reference: MS-Papers-9360

Description: Autograph book owned by an unidentified New Zealand Guard at the Prisoner of War Camp, Featherston during World War Two. Volume contains signatures by New Zealand guards at the camp; signaturers accompanied by illustations from Japanese prisoners of war; and signatures from American soldiers based in Hawera (1943). Language - Signatures and comments by prisoners are mainly in their own language Source of title - Supplied by Library The Featerston Military Camp was established during World War One. At the request of the USA the camp was re-established as a Prisoner of War Camp for Japanese soldiers in September 1942. Approximately 800 Japanese soldiers were imprisoned there (captured during the the Battle of Guadalcanal). Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss with line drawings Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Dundar Sloane, Auckland, Apr 2009 Many pages contain line drawings in pencil, ink and crayon.

Date: 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-5723

Description: These photographs are part of a collection held in Manuscripts. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1995-1997

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: 2001-008-011

Description: Drafts of articles, `The Personal identities of the 48 Japanese dead of the Featherston incident of 25 Feb 1943'; `The Japanese who came to New Zealand in the war'; `The Japanese attitude to being a prisoner of war'; `New Zealand and the world wars' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1941-1945

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-4161-01-194

Description: Series of interior and exterior photographs of various Dental Sections in NZ taken 1945. Include: Woodbourne; Trentham Camp Dental Hospital; Whenuapai; Burnham; HMS Philomel; Hobsonville. Various captioned photographs. Includes: NZDC POW dental section at Oflag V B, Biberach, Germany; 2 NZEP IP (Treasury Island, Bourail, Green Island); Vella Lavella; senior dental officers in New Caledonia; officers of 10 MOB Dental Section, 1944 (named); group of medical and dental staff BHQ 30 NZ Bn, Nissan Island; group photo of Dental Section, Pacific Area (unidentified); 22 Field Ambulance; Dental Section CCS Guadalcanal, AWWS HQ Guadalcanal; No 1 Max-Fac Dental Section, 4 Gen Hospital, New Caledonia; ATD Camp, Nemeara Valley; Dental Section RNZAF Station, Espiritu Santo; mobile dental section, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal ; Fiji detachment, 1944; Base Hygiene Section; Bougainville staff and surgery, 1944-1945; Field force exercises, 1941-1942; prosthetic truck; aerial view of mobile Dental Section area at Guadalcanal and plan of the area; aerial view of 10 MOB Dental Section HQ, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal; group photo of staff at Bn HQ; Lt Col O E L Rout and staff at Dental HQ; No 2 Max-Fac Dental Section. No 2 NZCCS, Guadalcanal; dental mechanics at work at an under-canvas dental hospital; Field dentistry at 53rd [?] Tank camp at Nissan; embarkation from New Caledonia to Guadalcanal, 1943 (group photo); 6 Squadron RNZAF 1945 (staff at Halavas); Dental Section at Emirau 1944-1945 (groups named and camp site). Quantity: 275 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1943-1945]

By: Beale, Gilbert Marsden, 1897-1972

Reference: PAColl-9991

Description: Photographs originally inside a journal written by Gilbert Marsden Beale while working as a tailor at the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Featherston, Wairarapa, between circa 1943-1945, during World War II. Photographer unidentified, possibly Beale. Descriptions are written on the backs of the prints by Beale. Images are taken at three places just outside the camp's barbed wire fence. One is taken by No 2 gate and shows the hospital buildings in the distance. Another is taken outside the main gate. Another looks though the fence towards the mechanical workshop. No persons are visible. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Purchase, 2012 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSX-8931: Beale, Gilbert Marsden, 1897-1972: Journal of his time at the Featherston Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.

Date: 1976

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1763-2

Description: Photocopy of corrected typescript of chapters 7-12, appendices and notes of Shinya's `The Path from Guadalcanal', translated by Thompson from Japanese into English. A Japanese naval officer describes his experiences in Pacific Island prison camps and at Featherston. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1866 - 1956 - 1868 - 1957

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-013

Description: Six-panelled account of Te Kooti's resistance to European incursions onto his land, his capture, transportation to the Chatham Islands, his revenge killing of the families of Major Biggs and Captain Wilson and Paratene at Poverty Bay in 1868, and his ultimate pardon in 1883 These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1934-1986

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-f-332

Description: Photographs of the prisoner-of-war camp Featherston, 1942-1945. These include views of the buildings, New Zealand military personel, and groups of Japanese pows, some of them identified. Many of the photographs were taken by John Pascoe. The rest of the album relates to Eric Thompson's connection with ex Japanese pows from the early 1970s to 1986. These include visits to New Zealand by some of the ex prisoners of war. One of the outcomes of this interaction was the presentation of a bronze memorial plaque by Japanese veterans which was set in the Featherston military camp memorial park. The plaque commemorated, particularly those Japanese prisoners of war killed by new Zealand guards on 25 February 1943. This was followed in 1986 by an Ireisai, a ceremony for the consolation of the spirits of the dead, which was performed at Featherston by a Japanese priest, Mr Adachi. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1945-1999

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9958

Description: Includes - Visits of ex Japanese prisoners of war to New Zealand from 1974 to 1999. Two photographs of of Japanese prisoners of war embarking on an American ship for their return to Japan, 30 December 1945. One group of photographs records people gathered for an Ireisai, a memorial ceremony for the consolation of the spirits of the dead, performed at the Featherston Military Camp memorial park by a japanese priest, 15 December 1986. Eric Thompson, his wife Isobel, and other New Zealanders associated with the prisoner of war camp at Featherston, also feature in the photographs. There are also photographs taken in Japan and sent to Eric Thompson. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). 77 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1943-1947, 2011

By: Kirk, James, 1904-1987

Reference: MS-Papers-11361

Description: Folder comprises original military documents in German relating to Kirk, and photocopies of application materials for the War Service Gratuity. Also includes research notes on Kirk compiled by Malcolm Goggin. Source of title - Title supplied by Library. Served as a medic in the 22nd Battalion, 2nd NZEF from 1940-1945. Was captured as a prisoner of war in Crete, and returned to New Zealand in 1945. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Malcolm Goggin, Upper Hutt, Aug 2012

Date: 1916

From: Howard, B J : Chiefly photographs of Somes Island during World War I

Reference: 1/2-091247-F

Description: German prisoners af war at exercise on Somes Island Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-000767-F

Description: Japanese prisoners of war returning to camp in Featherston by truck, after a days work. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Original caption reads: "Note that the prisoners on this lorry have with them a bunch of Broom. They are very fond of flowers, and treasure the flowering plants that to New Zealanders would be noxious weeds." Note on back of file print reads: "Note the bunch of broom. The prisoners are very fond of flowers, and treasure the flowering plants that to New Zealanders would be noxious weeds." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-000770-F

Description: Japanese prisoners of war at work on the roads in the Wairarapa area. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1871 - 1936

By: Fletcher, R S, active 1936

Reference: MapColl-832.1291/1871/Acc.6954

Description: Survey plan of the Auckland Albert Barracks, showing the boundaries of the barracks extending out to what later became Wellesley St, Kitchener St, Symonds St, Princes St and Alfred St. The barracks are enclosed by a stone wall (annotated note indicates part of the wall still in existence). Within the barracks is the armoury, a school, sergeant's quarters, military prison, Major Tisdall's house, the 'Dead House', large garden, the magazine, store and drill shed. Shows the Military Road, next to Government grounds, on what became Princes St. The 'Northern Club' is indicated on the corner of Waterloo Rd. Indicates building materials. Compiled by R.S. Fletcher, M.Sc. for the Lands Department, Auckland, 1936. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [ca. 1:2 000], 90 x 70 cm.

Date: 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-000783-F

Description: Interior of the furniture factory at the Japanese prisoner of war camp near Featherston. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Original caption reads: "One of the most interesting activities of the prisoners is making furniture in a factory that was specially built." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-000781-F

Description: Japanese prisoners of war at work on the roads in the Wairarapa area. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Original caption reads: "Breaking up old concrete slabs with an electric drill." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-000763-F

Description: Japanese prisoners of war digging a ditch to drain a field near Featherston. Taken by John Dobree Pascoe in 1943. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-112282-F

Description: German prisoners of war on Somes Island. Taken during the First World War. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).