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Members of the Maori Battalion returning home after World War 2, Wellington Harbour

Date: 23 January 1946

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

Reference: 1/4-001635-F

Description: Members of the Maori Battalion returning home on the troopship Dominion Monarch after World War Two, Wellington Harbour, 23 January 1946. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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28th Maori Battalion event at the National Army Museum, Waiouru, tape one of one

Date: [1988?]

From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings

Reference: OHT7-1178

Description: Interviews relating to the 28th Māori Battalion conducted at the National Army Museum, Waiouru [possibly the 16th reunion in 1988]. Interviewer Paraone Matiu (Te Aupori) talks with Bishop Max Mariu (Ngāti Tūwharetoa), Tahana (from Te Aupouri), Wally Martin (President of the Wellington branch of the 28th Māori Battalion), and various soldiers and organisers. Includes waiata and whakangahau. Quantity: 1 7" reel(s).

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New Zealand. Armed Forces :Maori national welcome to the 28th (Maori) Battalion of the ...

Date: 1946

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to Maori. 1940s].

By: Mason, Henry Greathead Rex (Hon), 1885-1975

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-1946-01

Description: An arrangement of text with diagonal red and gold stripes at the top left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Gold-engraved lettering on card, 122 x 152 mm.

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World War II Maori reinforcements leaving Rotorua

Date: 11 January 1944

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

Reference: 1/4-000829-F

Description: World War II Maori reinforcements leaving Rotorua in January 1944. From left: Turei Karaka (with cigarette), Tei Tihi, Mrs Kumeroa Te Kapoterangi, Mai Te Kapoterangi (holding child). Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "Harder still for the farewell between husband and family." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

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Maori soldiers erecting a marquee at a military training camp - Photograph taken by Geo...

Date: [ca 11 Feb 1942]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Stephenson, George, active 1942

Reference: PAColl-8983-20

Description: Maori soldiers (probably from the 28th Battalion) erecting a marquee at a military training camp, probably at, or near Kaikohe, in the Far North district. Photograph taken circa 11 February 1942, by George Stephenson. Publication note - Published in the New Zealand free lance (Wellington, NZ, 17 June 1942) Source of descriptive information - Notes, and stamp, on back of file print, and caption in New Zealand free lance (Wellington, NZ, 17 June 1942) Inscriptions: Verso - N I Military Camp WWII P17.6.42 11/2/42; Verso - [stamped in ink] Photograph by George Stephenson Kaikohe Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.7 x 20.3 cm

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Soldiers of the Maori Battalion at the opening of the new meeting house Tamatekapua at ...

Date: 1943

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

Reference: 1/4-000245-F

Description: Soldiers of the Maori Battalion at the opening of the new meeting house Tamatekapua at Ohinemutu, Rotorua district, in 1943. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Other - Pascoe's heading from the Photographic Archive Pascoe backfile for the set of photographs at 1/4-000225 to 00257 reads: "National Maori Ceremonies at Rotorua" Caption - Pascoe's caption at backfile reads: "They line up in front of the meeting house" Source of descriptive information - File print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Celulosic negative, 5.5 x 5.5 cm

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Maori soldiers leaving Rotorua for overseas service during World War II

Date: 11 January 1944

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

Reference: 1/4-000826-F

Description: Maori soldiers leaving Rotorua for overseas service during World War II. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in January 1944. Original caption reads: "At the local railway station Maori soldiers and their relations fill the platform. Note on back of file print reads: Maori reinforcements leave Rotorua, Jan 1944 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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World War 2 Maori reinforcements about to leave Rotorua railway station

Date: 11 January 1944

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

Reference: 1/4-000828-F

Description: World War 2 Maori reinforcements about to leave Rotorua railway station, January, 1944. A man and a woman hold hands in the foreground. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "It is not easy to say goodbye to friends." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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Maori group from Taranaki performing a waiata for the returning members of the Maori Ba...

Date: [23 January 1946]

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

Reference: 1/4-001656-F

Description: Maori group from Taranaki performing a waita for the returning members of the Maori Battalion, Aotea Quay, 23 January, 1946, photographed by John Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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Farewell parade for the Maori Battalion at Palmerston North during World War II - Photo...

Date: [ca Jan 1940]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Shea, K H, active 1941

Reference: PAColl-8983-21

Description: Farewell parade for the Maori Battalion at Palmerston North during World War II, before they left as part of the 2nd Echelon. Photograph taken circa January 1940 by K H Shea. Source of descriptive information - Notes on back of print. Dated from New Zealand History online website, 2nd World War timeline at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/second-world-war/new-zealand-and-the-second-world-war-overview/timeline accessed 5 March 2007. Inscriptions: Verso - Civic and Gove farewell Saturday. Maroi [sic] Battalion marching through Pal Nth streets.; Verso - Unpublished farewell to 2nd Echelon at Pal North; Verso - [stamped in ink] Press and General Photo Service K H Shea, 21-22 Clarendon Buildings, The Square PO Box 92 Palmerston North Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.7 x 21.6 cm

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Maori Battalion guard of honour at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition.

Date: 14 December 1939

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

Reference: EP-Days of Commemoration-Wellington Centennial 1939-01

Description: Maori Battalion guard of honour under the command of Major George Dittmer, at the opening of the Maori court at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Rongotai, Wellington. Photographed by an Evening Post staff photographer on the 14th of December 1939 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 25.5 x 20 cms

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Troopship, Dominion Monarch, bringing members of the Maori Battalion home after World W...

Date: 23 January 1946

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

Reference: 1/4-001633-F

Description: The troopship, Dominion Monarch, bringing members of the Maori Battalion home after World War 2, Wellington Harbour, 23 January 1946. Photograph taken by John Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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Second Maori Battalion in training - Photograph taken by an unknown photographer

Date: 1939-1945

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: PA1-q-292-09-462

Description: Original caption reads: "A fighting patrol moves forward". Photograph of the 2nd Maori Battalion under training in New Zealand, taken between 1939 and 1945 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 10.9 x 16.5 cm mounted on album page

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Maori reinforcements leaving Rotorua during World War 2

Date: 1944

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

Reference: 1/4-000827-F

Description: Maori reinforcements leaving for World War 2, boarding a train at a railway station in Rotorua. Photograph taken by John Pascoe in 1944. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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Maori reinforcements leaving Rotorua by train

Date: January 1944

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

Reference: 1/4-000832-F

Description: Maori reinforcements leave Rotorua by train, photographed in January 1944, by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "The train moves out."

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Second Maori Battalion at Ruatoria for the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Te...

Date: October 1943

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: PA1-q-292-23-505

Description: Members of the Maori Battalion on parade in Ruatoria, at the hui for the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu. Photograph taken October 1943 by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 11.1 x 16.3 cm mounted on album page

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Waaka, Kuru : Remember when - 1YZ programme

Date: 1930s-1950s; [1975?]

By: Waaka, Kuru, 1924-; Keepa, Wiremu Mataia, 1922-1975

Reference: MSC-005879

Description: Recording by 1YZ National Radio featuring Stan Ringer on hotels and transport, and Kuru Waaka on the Geyser Hotel and the 28th Maori Battalion(1930s-1950s), featuring singing by the Battalion with Billy Keepa soloist. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music Quantity: 1 audiocassette(s) cassette.

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