Star of India HMNZT (Ship : 1910-1916)

Date: October 1914, February 1919

By: Fitchett, W B, active 1935-1960; Hinge, Leslie, 1868-1942; Maybury, Horace R, active 1907-1943; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Tibbutt, Walter Francis, 1872-1929

Reference: PA1-f-022

Description: Album mainly of photographs of the assembly and departure of the Main Body, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, from Wellington in October 1914. It includes photographs of the troopships, Japanese and British naval escort, temporary camps, exercising of horses, embarkation of soldiers and loading of supplies. One photo showing the Verdala (As HMNZT No 13) with a pencil annotation reading 'Verdala with reinforcements' from December 1914. Most photographs were taken by S C Smith, with others taken by H R Maybury, Leslie Hinge and W F Tibbutt. It also includes a photograph of Queens Wharf, Wellington, taken February 1919 by H R Maybury. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue cloth bound album 27.4 x 39 cm Provenance: Album formerly in the possession of W B Fitchett, Lowry Bay.

Date: 1914-1918, 1924

By: Hosking, Rita Gwendolyn, 1897-1983

Reference: PAColl-0568

Description: Collection of photographs from an album compiled by Mrs R G Hosking. The photographs are mostly dated 1914-1918 and relate to World War One. Includes photographs taken in Egypt, England and New Zealand, depicting military personnel, naval ships, scenes at military camps, and the hospital at Brockenhurst, England. Includes portraits of Peter McIntyre Crawford, Douglas Vallance Hosking (husband of R G Hosking), Keith Melvyn Little, and other unidentified subjects. Features two photographs dated April 1924, one of Wellington taken from on board the HMS 'Hood', and another showing HMS 'Hood' on arrival at Wellington Harbour. Also includes images of naval ships NZHS 'Marama', HMAS 'Encounter', and HMNZT No. 8 'Star of India'. A fleet of ships is seen along the horizon of a postcard image captioned 'N.Z. First Contingent Sailing - Passing Island Bay' with the accompanying annotation 'This photo was taken at 4 a.m. as the ships carrying the Main Body were passing Island Bay, Wellington, on October 16, 1914'. Included in the collection are six photographic postcards. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Collection received with items in no particular order. Images have been loosely grouped around themes and depicted subject matter, including shipping, Suez & Egypt, military camps, military hospitals, portraits, and postcards. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 28 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints and postcards, some mounted on album page Provenance: Donated by Mrs Shirley Watson, Auckland, 1984. Mrs Watson is the daughter of Mrs R G Hosking, who compiled the album. Transfers: To Other - To Reference: Clippings and three items of ephemera.

Date: ca 1914-1918

By: Gilbody, Evelyn Margaret, 1927-1999

Reference: PAColl-0544

Description: Photographs of Gallipoli including one of an elaborate dug out with a pulley system and one of a demonstration of a wooden apparatus for firing a rifle over the top of a trench without having to hold it. There are also photographs of individual soldiers and a newspaper clipping about a 1701 prophesy of the First World War. Arrangement: Negatives housed at C11279 to C11295 Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1915-1916

From: Dowling, Richard Egbert Compere, 1894-1979 : World War One papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11637-2

Description: Folder contains photographs and photographic postcards of Dowling and the New Zealand Ambulance Corps. Some postcards are inscribed on the reverse. Also photographs of the HMNZ hospital ship `Maheno' and the HMNZ transport ship `Star of India'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photographs

Date: 15 Oct 1914

Reference: PA6-413

Description: Other - "Prob[ably] from RSA" on back of print Inscriptions: Recto - above image - as title.; Recto - beneath image - names of ships in near distance Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two images forming one print, mounted on card

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: Dickie, John, 1869-1942 :Collection of postcards, prints and negatives

By: Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928

Reference: 1/1-002420-G

Description: Photograph taken by David James Aldersley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 9

By: Aldersley, David James, 1862-1928

Reference: PAColl-6181-21

Description: HMNZT No 8, Star of India, photographed circa 1914-1918, by David James Aldersley. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - H.M.N.Z No 8 (Star of India [copyright symbol] A lb Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) postcard. Physical Description: Silver gelatin print