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Date: 1913

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the New Zealand Army, volunteers, soldiers of regular forces]

By: New Zealand. Army. Territorial Force; Gisborne herald (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-ARMY-1913-01

Description: A notice ordering soldiers to attend a training camp. Anyone who failed to attend would be liable to be proceeded against according to law. No excuses for absence unless supported by a medical certificate or by leave granted by the Commanding officer. The British coat of arms is at the top of the notice. Deframed by the Library. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print 338 x 215 mm.

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).

Date: 1965

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-5/11/5A-Acc.

Description: Shows layout proposals for Trentham camp and Witako Prison T P 7582/3 Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Black ink on cream paper. Scale indeterminable, 34 x 51.5 cm.

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

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

Date: 1965

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-5/11/5B-Acc.

Description: Shows layout proposals for Trentham camp and Witako Prison T P 7582/2 Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Black ink on cream paper. Scale indeterminable, 34 x 51.5 cm.

Date: 24 July 2002 - 24 Jul 2002

By: Hassett, Ronald Douglas Patrick (Major General), 1923-2004; Allen, Sherryl, active 2002

Reference: OHColl-0618/1

Description: An interview with Major General Ronald (Ron) Douglas Patrick Hassett, describing his military career. Mentions his childhood, education and role models. Talks about his military training at the Royal Military College of Duntroon in Canberra, involvement during World War II with the artillery in New Zealand, New Guinea, Egypt, Italy (describes battles including Cassino). Recalls time in Palestine, mentions holocaust survivors. Talks about administration at the end of the war. Mentions training school in Austria and Larkhill, and returning to New Zealand in 1951. Talks about war brides. Mentions various business projects and selling ideas to firms in South East Asia. Describes various training posts in New Zealand including Linton, as Brigade Major of Divisional Artillery during compulsory military training, and as chief instructor at Waiouru School of Artillery. Recalls spending time at the Australian Staff College, Queenscliff, Melbourne. Talks about nine months in Korea, Malaysia as Brigade Major of the Commonwealth Brigade, (mentions Brigadier Frank Hassett). Recalls making reconnaissance arrangements for equipment for troops in Vietnam. Discusses his role in the establishment of the Waiouru Army Museum which opened in 1978. Talks about his role as Chief of General Staff 1976 until his retirement in 1978. Interviewer(s) - Sherryl Allen Accompanying material - One colour copy of Major General Hassett in his uniform (midshot) - note printed onto paper - the printer was out of yellow ink. Four black and white copies on paper of the same photo. Accompanying material - Includes Agreement & biographical information form. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-10769 - 70 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3821. Search dates: 1939 - 1990

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).

Date: Sep 1950, Mar 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

By: Woollett, E, active 1951-1955

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-136

Description: Series of photographs taken by E Woollett (Linton), and Mr Walker (cricket) of National Publicity Studios. All contain captions. Training at Linton - Exercises with poles; confidence course; preliminary battle training; class room lecture (Capt E R Firth); map reading (Eric Eves & McLeod brothers); route march; sten gun instruction (Bruce Dick, Roy Saunders and Phillip Hansen); first parade. Portraits of - Colonel Thornton (CO Linton Military Camp); John Brathwaite and Tom Fraser (recent English immigrants); 2nd Lt R W Odlin (English immigrant); 2nd Lt N L Miller & 2nd Lt C Gardiner; Roy Hugh McKenzie (padre); Charles Bell (ex Maori Battalion); B A Corbett; Noel and Douglas Bevins of Palmerston North. Departure for and arrival at Linton - Assembled for transport; group of officer recruits (Miller, Davis, Johnson, Gardiner, Odlin, Mason, Moloughney, Llewellyn, Stanbridge & Petersen); Wellington Contingent on platform at Wellington railway station prior to boarding train for Linton; E G Eves & R Churcher on board the train; McClelland & Tews being farewelled by the Tews sisters; G A Bramley being fitted for fatigue drills by Cpl Ratapu; dental check-up for D J Anderson with WAAC Corporal E A Nairn and Lt/Col W M Ford; R E Christensen receiving his rifle and equipment. Three photographs taken during second cricket test between England and NZ at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, March 1951 Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [ca 1910-1925]

Reference: PAColl-6963

Description: Assorted views of army life and family photographs many of them taken on a beach. One of a hot air balloon is advertising Hudson's Baking Powder with the slogan "Bound to Rise". Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-059554 to 059869 and 106041 to 106083 Quantity: 316 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: Nov 1940-1941

By: Cody, Ita, 1894-1982

Reference: MS-Papers-7908

Description: Letters written by Joseph Frederick Cody to his wife, Ita, while at Trentham Military Camp from 1940 to 1941, with corrected typescript transcription; Cody described his daily life in the camp the training he underwent, the personnel, his various jobs, their diet, the arrival at camp of two cats; he also asks Ita to put various items in the `Glory Box'. It is no known who did the transcripts. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph and typescript with corrections Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs P Fry, Ngaio, Wellington Dec 2003

Date: 1968

From: Wellington Regional Council : Marie Sang map collection

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works

Reference: MapColl-WRC-8-5/11/7-Acc.

Description: Shows layout proposals for Trentham camp and Witako Prison T P 7582/4/3 Quantity: 1 map(s) with annotations. Physical Description: Coloured ink on cream paper. Scale indeterminable, 69 x 104 cm.

Date: 31 Mar-1 Apr 1993

By: New Zealand. Ministry of External Relations and Trade; Bennett, Charles Moihi Te Arawaka (Sir), 1913-1998

Reference: OHColl-0217/1

Description: Sir Charles Moihi Te Arawaka Bennett gives details of his family background. His father, Frederick Augustus Bennett, was the first Maori Bishop of Aotearoa. His grandfather, Jackson Bennett, was the first surveyor-general of New Zealand. Explains his father married Arihia Rangioue Hemana of Maketu, who was of prominent Te Arawa descent. Describes being raised in Maketu by his grandparents while his parents lived at Hastings. Recalls use of Maori language at Maketu School and that the headmaster, A.F. Burnett, suggested he continue education at Te Aute College. Describes attending Te Aute, getting used to the discipline and some loneliness. Talks about E.G. (Ernest Going) Loten the headmaster who instilled principles, philosophies and some religion. Discusses decision to become a teacher and training at Christchurch while studying for a BA in History at Canterbury University College. Comments that he was one of the few Maori at college or university and that while he did not meet overt prejudice he had to consciously embrace Pakeha ways. Discusses the beginning of World War II, the non-conscription of Maori and Sir Apirana Ngata's appeal to Maori to fight. Recalls viewing the War as an opportunity to see the world. Comments that of seven boys in his family, who went to war, five joined the Maori Battalion. Describes training at Trentham and Palmerston North: the discipline of training and finishing the course as an officer. Mentions George Dittmer, the Commanding Officer, the second in command George Bertrand and the Regimental Sergeant Major, Ace Woods. Describes how they were organised into tribal groups and fought as whanau. Notes that A Division was the Auckland area, B Division was Taupo, Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, C Division was Ngati Porou (East Coast) and D Division was Hawkes Bay, Taranaki and the South Island. Comments on being taught to use his talents for the betterment of Maori. Describes his career progression from platoon commander to company commander then battalion commander. Recalls going overseas and landing in England where the Maori Battalion was well received. Describes broadcasting for the BBC and the response by Lord Haw-Haw. Recalls the Maori Battalion's first active duty in the Greek mountains and the impossibility of stopping the Germans. Describes being withdrawn and going to Crete. Gives details of the mission against German airborne invasion. Discusses the plan of attack, German possession of the Maleme airfield, and accounts for the mission's ultimate failure. Describes how the Maori Battalion trekked across mountains to the other side of the island to be evacuated and how some of the troops were left behind. Recalls arriving in Egypt where reinforcements were waiting. Discusses Dittmer's wounding in Libya and successive replacements: Colonel Love, Colonel Fred Baker, Major Hart until, and in November 1942, he (Bennett) was offered the position of commanding officer of the Maori Battalion by Kippenberger. Comments on Kippenberger and General Freyberg. Recalls taking over command in the middle of El Alamein. Describes in detail the battle of Point 209 where Lieutenant Ngarimu was killed, posthumously receiving a VC. Talks about the battle of Takrouna. Venue - Te Puke : 1993 Sponsored by - Ministry of External Relations Interviewer(s) - Jim Sullivan Quantity: 6 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 5.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - edited transcript, OHA-1000. Search dates: 1993

Date: [1936-1938]

From: Morton, Errol Cliff : Photographs and negatives of Western Desert, World War 2

Reference: 1/2-180138-F

Description: View of Waiouru Army Training Camp, showing soldiers watching a shell burst, taken circa 1936-1938 by Errol Cliff Morton. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 69 x 115 mm

Date: [8 Aug 1950]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/191/08-F

Description: Aerial photo of army jeeps and soldiers doing manoeuvres in a sandy area at an army tent camp near Foxton. Photograph taken 8 Aug 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3/25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1950-1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/164/32-F

Description: Two men do the dishes at Linton military camp. Photograph taken 29 June 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 6 centimetres

Date: [1936-1938]

From: Morton, Errol Cliff : Photographs and negatives of Western Desert, World War 2

Reference: 1/2-180114-F

Description: View of Waiouru Army Training Camp taken circa 1936-1938 by Errol Cliff Morton. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1936-1938]

From: Morton, Errol Cliff : Photographs and negatives of Western Desert, World War 2

Reference: 1/2-180126-F

Description: View of Waiouru Army Training Camp, showing artillery target practice, taken circa 1936-1938 by Errol Cliff Morton. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative 70 x 114 mm

Date: 1950-1950

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/164/40-F

Description: View of Linton military camp showing barracks and quarters. Photograph taken 29 June 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 6 centimetres