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Date: 1939-1940

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-4161-01-031-12

Description: Mainly photographs of military officers probably involved in recruitment and selection of troops Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1933-1942

From: Pearson, Alfred William, fl 1924-1949 :Photographs relating to the New Zealand Navy

Reference: PAColl-8948-1

Description: Pumpkin Cottage, Trentham. St John's Anglican Church, Trentham. Trentham Military Camp. Heretaunga Railway station. Military parade of naval personnel. An ANZAC Day commemoration at the Wellington Cenotaph. Naval personnel with members of a Maori concert party. Sailors at Maritius and New Caledonia. Naval boarding party on deck. Portraits of Alfred William Pearson. HMS Leander, june 1940. Two group photographs taken at reunions, probably in the 1950s. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1880-1959, 1962, 1964, 16 Mar 1918, 6 Feb 1925, 17 Apr-27 Sep 1937

By: Hansen family; Tiller, Eileen Mavis, active 1957-2014

Reference: MS-Group-0887

Description: Estate papers of W F Hansen and his father Anders. These include correspondence, diaries, autograph books, insurance papers, accounts, property papers, papers re British & Continental Film Company Ltd, 1920s. The diaries of Elizabeth Hansen, 1928-1932, 1954-1959, 1962, 1964, contain brief daily entries describing her domestic activities, weather conditions, involvement in community work and the Methodist Church. The early diaries were kept while the Hansens were in Featherston (the period immediately following their marriage). From 1954, after Fred Hansen died, Elizabeth lived at Masterton. Included in some of the diaries are newspaper clippings which report on church and community affairs. Contains letters by Anne Hansen aboard the `Rangitata', in England and Ireland to Fred and Lizzie Hansen in Masterton, New Zealand. Anne describes her daily life and travel and discusses family matters. Also contains a letter from Lena Cook (nee Hansen) while on holiday in Melbourne and a letter from an ex-soldier Elyabill Harrold to Fred Hansen following Fred's return from World War One. See ATL-Group-00334 for photographic material relating to the Hansen family. William Frederick Hansen's father, Anders Hansen was a lighthouse keeper. Fred Hansen was born at Cape Saunders, Westport. He was a tunneller in World War One. Elizabeth and Fred Hansen lived at Featherston and later moved to Masterton where Fred died in 1953. Mrs Eileen Tiller (née Hansen) is the niece of Mrs and Mrs Hansen. Quantity: 32 volume(s). 9 folder(s). 0.71 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: Eileen Tiller is the granddaughter of lighthouse keeper Anders Hansen. Processing information: Twenty diaries arrived in the Photographic Archive and were separated from the photographic material as was the practice at the time.

Date: [ca 1914-1915], [ca 1930]

From: Treadwell family: Photographs

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955

Reference: PAColl-10230

Description: Photographic prints collected by Lancely Treadwell comprising: -two group portraits of men in army uniform, relating to Bob Davidson's service during World War I, taken circa 1914 and 1915 by unidentified photographers. One shows a group in Egypt with a pyramid and a sphynx in the background behind the men. -Parade on Courtenay Place/Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, circa 1930, taken by Frank Giles Barker from the site of what is the Embassy Theatre in 2014. One of the floats is a locomotive. The donor said Davidson was from Feilding. The Davidson recorded in the name authority by the archivist is the only Robert Davidson on the Centotaph database that is listed as being from Feilding. He is not identified in the photographs. The name M A Bassett features as an inscription on one of the prints but this name is not known to the donor. Relationship complexity - The image at PAColl-10230-1 is also at the beginning of album PA1-o-1821. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Bob Davidson is the brother of the donor's grandmother.

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

By: Walden, Peter, active 2014; Thomson, Richard John James, 1890-1977

Reference: PAColl-10227

Description: Comprises a group portrait of a New Zealand army troop in an unknown location, and a view of No. 4 troop performing tank manoeuvres during 1st NZ Tank Brigade training in Area 6 at Waiouru. Taken circa 1939 to 1945 by R J Thomson and unidentified photographer(s). Training view is inscribed with message from B K Christensen and 'Barney'. Probably associated with Barney K Christensen. Source of title - title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

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).

Date: [1880s-1930s]

From: Galbreath, Ross Alan, 1946- :Photographs

By: Abba, David, active 1880s; Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.); D Abba & Son (Firm); de Meillon, J H C, active 1900s; Edmonds, W M, active 1890s; Gunston & Company; Hall, Clarence R, active 1910s; Holden, George W, active 1880s; Kinsey, William Henry Scott, 1860-1931; Peter Pan Studio; Watson, Robert T, active 1910s

Reference: PAColl-9632

Description: Photographs of people, scenes and personalities associated with the Gascoigne and Rowe families in New Zealand and England, 1880s-1930s. Quantity: 71 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Collection as a whole received by Photo Archive items transferred to Ephemera Collection. - To Ephemera Collection - Bible & Prayer Union 1892 Member's Card - Phoebe Gascoigne; Passenger flying at the London Aerodrome, Hendon Souvenir - Joseph William Gascoigne (Eph-A-PEOPLE-Gascoigne).

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.

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).

Date: 17 May, 1934, ca1890

By: Old, Janet Haldane, 1928-2003; Eltham Historical Society

Reference: PAColl-1212

Description: Three prints of Eltham Jubilee, 17 May 1934, one print of Mountain Road, Eltham, ca 1890, photograph of Minnie Jeffrey and photograph of a World War I soldier and Red Cross Nurse Arrangement: F165785 1/2, F165883 1/2 - F165884 1/2 Quantity: 17 photocopy/ies and. 3 b&w copy photographic print(s) in one envelope.

Date: [ca 1939-1944]

From: McKenzie, Roy Allan (Sir), 1922-2007: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1585

Description: Includes - Groups of skiers in snow covered landscapes. Views of snow covered mountains. Roy McKenzie in military uniform (Air Force). Loose photos of John and Annie McKenzie with friends. John McKenzie among his race horses. Group of soldiers reclining in a paddock eating. Group of photographs probably from a holiday in the Queentown/Milford Track areas. Group of soldiers (probably on the Empire Air Training Scheme, Canada). Portrait of a young woman called Errol. Senior High School boys. Trainees in Canada on the Empire Air training Scheme. Soldier groups. Snowy landscapes and other Canadian views. Skiing in Canada. Views of Fountains Abbey, England, and Liverpool Cathedral under construction. Groups of soldiers in England. Views of Oxford. A wedding. John McKenzie at the laying of a stone in memory of his son Don, May 1943. Group photograph of RAF soldiers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1909-1936

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

Reference: PA1-o-1731

Description: Most of the photographs, postcards and Christmas cards in this album were sent to Jessie Mackersey by her children Leslie, Lindsay, and Margaret who were all on war service in England, France and the occupation of the Rineland after the First World War. Album opens with a portrait of Jessie Mackersey dated 1909. Other items include - A christmas card from Sergeant Leslie Mackersey, 6th Howitzer Battery, France. Studio photograph of Leslie Mackersey and three friends in uniform. View of Trentham Military Camp and group photograph of soldiers. Postcard of public gardens in Dakar, Senegal. Group of soldiers on board ship. Photographs relating to the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England. These include a visit of the Duke of Connaught, group photographs of hospital staff and soldiers, and two snaps of Margaret Mackersey as an ambulance driver. The next ten pages relate to Lindsay Mackersey's time in the occupation force in the Rhineland. These include - photographs of German towns. Buildings. The Rhine. Bridges. River craft. Soldiers. Civilians. There are also postcards and Christmas cards from Germany. Eight photographs relate to the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital at Homebush. Others include - A memorial in France to New Zealand troops killed in the Battle of the Somme. Interior view of a ward of the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst. Two photographs include a view of Tokomaru Bay, and a view of farm buildings in a hilly, recently burned off landscape. Photograph of the ceremony of presenting the New Zealand flag to the town of Lymington, 19 February 1919. Drurie Hill memorial tower, Whanganui, and gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers. Opening the Bishop Hadfield Memorial Hostel, Hadfield Terrace, Kelburn, Wellington, 1908. Postcards from England include - Windsor, Harrow, Brockenhurst, and the Tower of London. Groups picnicing. Wedding breakfast, 28 December 1920. Christmas and new year cards for 1936. 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 Leverkusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: Oct 1939

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: Green & Hahn (Firm)

Reference: DA-07133

Description: 1st Echelon. World War II recruits, from Christchurch, passing over the Bridge of Remembrance, on their way to Burnham Mobilization Camp, October 1939. Photograph taken by Green and Hahn. Other notes - No negative from DA-7133 Source of descriptive information - Notes on print. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [1939-1945]

From: Macpherson, Beverley :Photographs relating to the McCracken family

Reference: PAColl-8577-2-016

Description: View of the Te Mata Home Guard Mounted Rifles in formation on their horses at Ruapuke. Their leader is R J Nicholson. Photographed by an unknown photographer some time between 1939 and 1945. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Home Guard; Verso - top centre - Te Mata Home Guard Mounted Rifles taken at Ruapuke. Leader R J Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.5 x 15.3 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.