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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.

Date: 1914-1917

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

Reference: PA1-o-1552

Description: Photograph album compiled by R V Kay for his future wife Sybil. Includes photographs of automobile travel, gardens, picnics, parties, golf, suspension bridges, motorcycles, New Zealand soldiers on troopship, military training in England, soldiers at Stonehenge and family and friends. Inscriptions: Backing board verso - centre - Sybil, with love from Reg Aug '17 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 140 x 165 mm

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

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: [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.

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.

Date: 1914

By: Corbin, Jane N, active 2002

Reference: PAColl-7420

Description: Photographs of camps and troop movements in New Zealand during the World War, 1914-1918. Many show the camps at Tauherenikau and Trentham. One shows soldiers on board a train at Lambton Station Wellington, and another the deck of a ship crowded with troops. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1914]

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-008457-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: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000184-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials entering Queen Street Railway Station on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered to watch. R & W Hellaby's butchery shop can be seen on the left and the Chief Post Office is on the right of the entrance way. Above the shops on the lefthand side a building is under construction. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1251A Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000183-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials marching down Queen Street toward the Queen Street Railway Station entrance on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered outside the General Post Office to watch. Two tram cars can be seen amongst the crowd. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1252A Relationship complexity - An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000182 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1917

From: [Christmas cards sent during the First World War, from soldiers and other service personnel. 1917-1918]

By: Bell, William Frederick, 1895-1920

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWI-1917-01

Description: Shows New Zealand soldier sitting on the ground resting on a milestone which reads: "France to New Zealand 13,000 miles". Behind him at the right is a bombed building, but he contemplates the central panel wherein the smoke of his pipe has formed the word "AOTEAROA" combined with a map of New Zealand. Printed as a Christmas greeting card for soldiers in France to send home. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W F Bell Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on Christmas greetings card 1917.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on folded card 180 x 135 mm.

Date: ca 1915

From: Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923 : New Zealand post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-005958-G

Description: Changing guard at the Featherston Military Camp, Wairarapa, photographed circa 1915. Shows soldiers by the guard room, and a garden in the foreground. Photograph taken by Frederick George Radcliffe. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Changing Guard Featherston MC; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Tourist series 154 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Finding Aids: Dated using information in the Radcliffe Register held in Turnbull Library Pictures.

Date: 1914

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-009955-G

Description: Church service/parade at a 10th Nelson Mounted Rifles camp in Tapawera, in 1914. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [between 1915-1916]

From: Daroux, James Henry, 1870-1943 :Collection of negatives and prints

Reference: 1/2-101093-G

Description: The Rimutaka Range, showing World War I troops marching southward, from Tauherenikau Camp to Trentham camp, along the Rimutaka Hill Road. Photographed by James Henry Daroux. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 10 Aug 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000182-G

Description: View of soldiers of the 2nd Contingent, Auckland Territorials marching down Queen Street toward the Queen Street Railway Station on their departure for the Front. Crowds of people have gathered outside the General Post Office to watch. A J J Craig Ltd cart and two tram cars can be seen amongst the crowd. Taken by William A Price on 10 August 1914. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 2nd. Contingent of Auckland Territorials leaving for the Front. 10th Aug. 1914. Protd. P.P.Co. 11.8.14. No 1253A Relationship complexity - An almost identical view is available at 1/2-000183 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1917

From: McElwain Family: McElwain family album

Reference: PA1-q-922-30

Description: Band and orchestra of the 3rd Auckland Infantry Regiment photographed by an unknown photographer in 1917. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Band & Orchestra of the 3rd Auckland Inf. Regt. C.R.O. 1917 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin Print, 20.3 x 15.2 cm

Date: 1918 - 1930

Reference: Eph-C-WAR-WI-1920-01

Description: Shows the names of eleven men from the Omata District killed during the First World War, and fifty others who served in the war. Those killed were: Corporal T S Crompton, Private E L Allen, Private P Wood, Rifleman W H Millman, Private E Anstis, Private J J Crompton, Lance-Corporal L A Warren, Private N Wood, Private D Mace, Corporal R Kidd, Private H A Prujean. Among the remaining fifty, some bore the family names of Crompton, Mace, and Anstis. At the lower edge is a landscape of the Omata area showing rolling country, the Omata Stockade and Mount Taranaki in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, coloured, 375 x 245 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2004.

Date: [Between 1916 and 1919]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: PA1-o-425

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Leslie Bowden Quartermain during his time in the New Zealand Medical Corps, World War I. Most of the men photographed are named only with Christian names, surnames or nicknames. The first sequence shows various military camps, including the training depot set up at the Awapuni Racecourse for the Medical Corps. There they were trained in specialist medical work, and also in basic infantry training and discipline. The following sequences were taken en route to Europe, with stops at Fremantle, Durban, Cape Town, and Dakar. The arrival in England gives views in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire where the men were quartered before travelling to France. Two show the village of Lewknor, the ancestral home of the Quartermain family; and several show the royal review of Australian and New Zealand troops on Salisbury Plain. Other views were taken on leave from France; and with the army of occupation in Cologne, before the voyage home on the ship Kia Ora, through the Panama Canal. The final photograph is a group portrait with Leslie Bowden Quartermain in military uniform seated in the middle of a large group, probably Quartermain family, taken in 1919. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled "Photographs"; 21.5 x 17.5 cm