Zeitoun

Date: 1914-1915

By: Maunsell, Henry Beresford, 1890?-1958

Reference: PA1-o-336

Description: Photograph album relating to Henry Beresford Maunsell's service during World War I, with the NZ Army 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles Regiment in Egypt. Many of the military personnel are identified, a few with later dates added noting when some of the men photographed in the album were killed in action. The first part of the album shows soldiers leaving on board HMNZ troopship 'Orari' 14 October 1914, the trip through Hobart, Colombo, Aden, Port Said until disembarkation in Alexandria December 1914. Many scenes show the shipboard stabling for horses used by Mounted Rifle troops; others show various ships they passed on the way. The latter part shows various military scenes in Egypt, including The New Zealand Corps camp near Cairo; swimming horses crossing the Nile; Red Cross Vauxhall ambulance; groups of soldiers riding camels; horse lines; and a line of horses at drinking troughs. There are a few images of soldiers at tourist sites, and some of Egyptians. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Maunsell album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover; 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1916-1919

From: Gillies, Alexander, 1891-1982: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1940

Description: Photograph album compiled by Alexander Gillies, relating to his service with the YMCA (New Zealand Young Men's Christian Association) in Egypt and Palestine during World War One, 1916-1919. A small envelope stuck inside front cover is addressed to Miss Gillies, YMCA, Moray Place, Dunedin. All prints include captions that identify locations and people. Contains 12 prints relating to a garden party for 3,000 convalescing soldiers at Ezbekiah Gardens labelled “I” to “XII”. Prints show crowds of soldiers in conversation, eating lunch, and watching or participating in games (egg and spoon race, sack race, donkey rides). Prints also show the Ezbekiah Garden YMCA centre in detail (band rotunda, notices, decorations, tables, and chairs, plants), and other people at event (local Egyptians, a table of "Lady Helpers"). The print labelled “XI” includes an inscription on reverse saying “lighthouse about a mile from camp”. Two other prints depicting Ezbekiah Gardens show the notice board and two men at the entrance. Eight prints relating to the “Command Depot” at Sidi Bishr are labelled “I” to “VIII”. One print depicts convalescent officers in Gillies' “P.T. Class” (possibly meaning physical therapy class) and one print labelled "My Instructors" showing six men doing exercises outside a hut. Four prints show larger groups of soldiers doing exercises and parading during a review by Sir Reginald Wingate. Two prints show Wingate talking to his Aide-de-Camp, Major Owen, Colonel Alston, and Gillies. Remaining prints show nine people outside a YMCA tent and "Devotional Hut" at Zeitoun, a running race labelled “Egyptian Race”, and a group portrait of a Pierrot Troupe at Helouan. Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - To Lil From Effie & Alex July 12 1921 Inside front cover of album is address to "Lil". This is likely Alexander Gillies' older sister Lillias Gillies (born 1877). Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 33 b&w photographic prints. Physical Description: One photograph album bound in green cloth, 19.5 x 14cm

Date: 1914

From: Stichbury, Vincent John, 1891-1966 : Family papers and World War One diaries

Reference: MS-Papers-11559-03

Description: Folder contains correspondence from Stichbury home to his family during World War One. Includes letters to his parents (William and Hannah Stichbury), sisters (Myrtle, Eva and Elsa Stichbury) and brothers (Bill and Tim [sic] Stichbury). Letters detail training and departure to Egypt. Stichbury sailed aboard the `Waimana', details life and training aboard the transport. Recounts stopovers on the way to Alexandria. Continues with life in Zeitoun Camp. Much of the correspondence relates to domestic family events back home in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs Processing information: Digitisation details - Part of WW100 digitisation project.

Date: 4 Jan 1915-21 May 1917 - September 2015

By: McLeod, John Duncan, 1887-1942

Reference: ATL-Group-00124

Description: Collection relating to the service of John Duncan McLeod in World War I. Comprises his service diary, and a transcription of the diary written by his granddaughter Loris Mcleod, which includes comments by her father. Sergeant McLeod was born in Timaru. Worked as a survey hand before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force. Enlisted aged 28. Served with the 9 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 9 Reinforcements (December 1914 - September 1915). Embarked 8 Apr 1915 from Brisbane on HMAT Star of England A15. He fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Resident at Enfield, New South Wales after the war, then moved to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 Electronic document(s). Physical Description: Diary bound in black leather

Date: [ca 1916-1919]

From: Jackson, Ynyr George, 1898-1961: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10623-2

Description: Photographs of landscapes, buildings, animals, and people, mostly in Palestine, by Ynyr George Jackson, from the period 1916-1919. Series of photographs with captions inscribed by Jackson verso, including: - "1 Near Zakariah" [Az-Zakariyya or Zakaria] - "2 Bedouin ploughing Richon Le Zion" [Rishon LeZion] - "3 Monastry on the 'Mount of Temptation' Jericho" - "4 Near Solomon's Pools Bethlehem" - "5 In the Wadi Kelt Jericho" - "6 On trek between Zakariah & Bethlehem" - "7 The Damascus Gate Jerusalem" - "8 Bethlehem" - "9 Watering Horses Auja" [Al-Auja or Yarkon River] - "10 Russian Church 'Garden of Gethsemene'" - "11 River Jordan" - "12 Armed Arabs" - "13 Street in New Jerusalem" - "14 Jordan River Near Ghoranieh [Ghoraniyeh]" - "15 Pontoon Bridge at Ghoranieh [Ghoraniyeh] Jericho" - "16 Bridge built by R E's Ghoranieh [Ghoraniyeh] Jericho" - "17 Pontoon bridge Ghorianieh" [Ghoraniyeh] - "18 Jaffa Gate Jerusalem" - "19 Jerusalem" - "20 Kasr el Nil Bridge Cairo" [Qasr El Nil Bridge] - "21 Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem" - "22 On Trek" - "23 In the Jordan Valley" - "24 Bethlehem" - "25 Jericho" - "26 Near Amman" - "27 Road between Bethlehem & Zahariah" - "28 Jerusalem" - "29 Mosque of Omar Jerusalem" And another series of images with captions: - "2 Tobacco patch Abu Hassan el Keber" - "3 Pits dug in front of Turk trenches at Weili Sheikh Nuran redoubt. The earth is carted away & they were almost impossible to cross on foot." - "4 Transport French Colonial Troops. Khan Yunis" - "5 Khan Yunis" - "6 This hill is supposed to have been built many centuries ago as a fortress. Its about 4 times as large as photo only shows one corner." - "7 Indian Troops" - "8 Khan Yunis" - "9 Arabs Khan Yunis" - "10 The Dump. Dier el Belah" - "11 Barley crop near Rafa" - "12 Orchards near Khan Yunis" - "13 Military Cemetery Khan Yunis" - "14 Water Troughs. Wadi Ghuzze [Ghuzee]" - "15 Ayrshire R. H. A." [Royal Horse Artillery] Another series of images most likely by an unidentified photographer with captions inscribed by Jackson: - "Jaffa Gate Jerusalem" - "Old Jerusalem" - "School of Instruction Zeitoun" - "St Davids Tower Jerusalem" Also four photographs without captions, all featuring horses. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 51 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints.

Date: 1 January 1916 - 31 December 1916

From: Jackson, Ynyr George, 1898-1961: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12292-2

Description: Diary for the year 1916 with entries dated from 1 January to 31 December. Printed at Nile Mission Press, 37 Sharia Manakh, Cairo. Diary commences with Jackson, a member of the Machine Gun Section of the Mounted Rifle Brigade, in Cairo. Describes visit to pyramids and the Sphinx in January. Late January trek in desert via Zeitoun and to Suez and Ismailiya. Visit and inspection of camp by Prince of Wales, accompanied by General Godley in March. Jackson went on to Port Said and from there back to the Dardanelles. Describes the camps and military action at Hill 70, better known as Scimitar Hill. Later in the year the diary describes action in the Sinai Desert and life at camp in Kantara [El Qantara], Egypt. The diary includes a number of items originally laid in on page dated Wednesday, 19 April 1916: including a "Twenty-Five Piastres" banknote of "National Bank of Egypt", dated 7 June 1918; a holograph note in ink by Jackson to accompany two newspaper clippings dated 1958 describing the discovery of a message in a bottle thrown overboard from the troopship 'Willochra' departing Wellington on 15 August 1915. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 folder(s) single bound volume, a banknote, 2 newspaper clippings, and note on paper.. Physical Description: Diary bound in printed cloth, banknote, newspaper clippings, and holograph note in ink on paper.

Date: 1908-1916, 1923, 1939-1943

From: Malone family :Photographs relating to William George Malone

By: Malone, William George, 1859-1915

Reference: PAColl-10155-2

Description: Photographs relating to William George Malone and his military career during World War I, including scenes in New Zealand, Egypt and Gallipoli, and the military service of his sons. Photographs taken between circa 1908 and 1916, plus prints taken in 1923 and ca 1940s. Includes wartime photographs that were taken, developed and printed by Malone. Other photographs taken by a range of photographers. Some smaller prints are duplicated as larger prints on mounts. Nearly all photographs are identified and dated. There are explanatory notes from the donor. Includes pre World War One views taken in New Zealand; Lieutenant Colonel William George Malone in his dress uniform (possibly taken after his promotion to Lt. Colonel), assembled soldiers wearing lemon squeezer hats (possibly Territorial Force at camp), 11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles) 1913, Ida Katherine, second wife, and son Maurice with others on wharf farewelling NZEF troops 14 October 1914 (taken by W.G Malone from troopship 'Arawa'. Also includes view of W.G. Malone clean shaven in army uniform (uncertain date, possibly 1908 or 1915). One group of views were taken in Egypt and Gallipoli during World War One by W.G Malone or possibly with his camera. Views in Egypt show Capt. R.E Coningham (?), 10 Ghurka Rifles, outside army tent at El Kubri, Egypt, G.S.O (General Staff Officer) to Malone; William George Malone with Capt Horne (Home?) sight-seeing at the Sphinx and Pyramids, Luxor; Arab guides and camels; Malone on his horse 'The Don' in Zeitoun Camp; and framed photograph of Ida Katherine on desk in Malone's tent. Prints on pages extracted from photograph album include a view of 'The Farlands', the second Malone family homestead, Stratford. Views taken at Gallipoli show W.G Malone outside his bivouacs on Walkers Ridge and Cape Helles, including scene of Malone with (possibly) Capt R.E. Coningham. Gallipoli views include original prints taken April to May 1915 by W.G. Malone showing views of fortifications on Walkers Ridge; the battlefield of Krithia; the ship 'Clyde' run ashore at old Sedd-El-Bahr Port ruins; Reserve Gully; burial of dead Turkish soldiers on the day of armstice to bury the dead (24 May 1915). One group of photographs show the sons of W.G Malone in military uniforms. Those in World War One uniforms are Maurice Patrick (serial no. 11/1338) (solo portrait and group portrait with machine gun soldiers and equipment), Brian Bernard (5/2), Terence Joseph (11/553), Edmond Leo (11/699). Includes William Bernard 'Barney' circa 1939 to 1943. Also includes soldier who served under W.G. Malone, Sergeant Jacob ('Jack') Randup Moller standing outside King George V Hospital, Rotorua. Includes views of memorial plaque to W.G Malone and Lieutenant Colonel Charles Frederick Denman Cook on wall of All Saints Church, Palmerston North, and view of crowd at official unveiling of Malone Memorial Gate, King Edward Park, Stratford, August 1923. Accompanying information - various notes identifying photographs were received from donor and kept with prints and in backfile Relationship complexity - Donor has scanned some of the photographs and Taranaki-related papers to give to Puke Ariki. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 pages with 19 b&w prints. 2 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1912-1915, 1944

By: Quick family

Reference: fMS-Papers-11995

Description: Collection comprises two letters from Robert Garfield Quick (known as Garfield) to his sister Emma Quick written from Zeitoun, Egypt, during his service with the Canterbury Mounted Rifles in World War I. Also includes photocopy of Quick family history, some handwritten information about Garfield Quick, some newspaper cuttings, and some postcards dated between 1912 and 1915. One postcard is blank, the others are mainly from Garfield to Emma, but also include some to and from other siblings Jack and Girlie (Mary) Quick, as well as George Davidson and Gerald Mitchell. Also includes three commemoration cards, two with photographs attached. One with and one without a photograph of Garfield Quick, who died in action in 1917. The other one is from the parents of Colin James Ashworth thanking people for the sympathy expressed on the death of their son (1944). Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter, photographs Provenance: Donor is the grandaughter of Robert Garfield Quick.

Date: 1 Jan - 13 Sep 1915

From: McRae, Donald, 1881-1915 : Diary and letters

Reference: MS-Papers-3775-1

Description: This folder contains the war diary written by McRae from Jan to Sep 1915. At the front of the diary is a brief timeline of travelling dates from leaving Auckland in Sep 1914, through to arriving in Cairo on 5 Dec 1915. McRae's entries in the diary are brief. He describes his time at Zeitoun Camp, parades, training drills, and visits to the Egyptian Pyramids. McRae transfers with his unit to Ismalia on 26 Jan 1915. Comments on the attach of the Turkish Army at Suez Canal on 3 Feb 1915. Transported on the `Katuna' on 10 Apr 1915 to the island of Lemnos. Ship moves off ANZAC Cove on 24 Apr 1915. Details fighting and wounded until 4 May 2015 when he disembarks at ANZAC Cove and moves up to the firing line. Wounded in leg on 8 May 1915, wound dressed on beach the next day. Taken aboard transport with other casualties including Lieutenant-Colonel Plugge and Major Harrowell. Shipped to Malta via Alexandria to recuperate at St George's Hospital. McRae details life on Malta over the next month. Returns to Gallipoli and the front line on 25 Jun 1915. Involved in the battle of the Turkish Army's last major offensive against the ANZAC soldiers on 29 and 30 June 1915. Injured for a second time on 7 Aug 1915 during Auckland Infantry's attack in the ANZAC offensive which included the attack on Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair. Lay out without dressing for three days then carried down to shore. Medical attention the following day and transferred to a medical boat on 11 Aug 1915. En route to Malta the bullet was removed from his leg. Very few entries in the diary from this point. Leg operated on 19 Aug 1915, amputated 13 Sep 1915 (last entry). End pages of diary include some contact addresses and a list of names (possibly correspondents). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (9.5 cm; red cover) Processing information: Digitisation details - Part of WW100 digitisation project. 273 digitised images

Date: 23 Jul 1914-8 May 1915

By: Bayne, James, 1887-1915

Reference: MS-Papers-1418

Description: Diary kept by Bayne while serving as a private in the Ruahine Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion, in Egypt and Gallipoli. The first pages comprise a listing of the officers in Malone's Wellington Infantry Battalion and a timeline of significant dates relating to the start of the First World War. Diary begins on 10 Aug 1914 as Bayne enlists at Dannevirke, is sent to Masterton for equipment and then onto the Awapuni Camp for military training. Further training at Trentham Camp then embarks aboard the `Arawa' to Egypt on 16 Oct 1914. Details shipboard life and gives accounts of the stopovers en-route, included a detailed account of the layover in Colombo. Arrives Alexandria 3 Dec 1914 and gives detailed account of the surrounding buildings, foods and local customs. Continues training at Zeitoun Camp until deployment to the Suez Canal on 25 Jan 1915. Returns to camp and describes living conditions, military life and operations. Diary entry for the "Battle of the Wozzer", 2 Apr 1915. Leaves Alexandria on 10 Apr 1914 aboard the transport `Itonus' for Gallipoli. 25 Apr 1915 is transhipped at 10.30pm to `HMS Bulldog' and taken half a mile from the beach before loading into rowing boats for the remainder of the ANZAC landing. Gives detailed narrative of the fighting and lists soldiers injured in the conflict. Comments on the failed attack on Monash Gully 2 May 1915, leaves Anzac Cove to fight at Cape Helles 6 May 1915. Diary ends 8 May 1915 with Bayne's involvement in preparing for the attack on Krithia. Also includes newspaper report of a memorial service held at Manakau for Bayne, and a newspaper cutting photograph of Private Bayne and New Zealanders on their way to Gaba Tepe. The newspaper cutting that accompanies this diary indicates that this diary was found on Bayne's body five months after his death. Source of title - Supplied Private Bayne fought with the Ruahine Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion, in Gallipoli in 1915. Reported missing in action at Cape Helles, 8 May 1915. Later reported killed in action, 4 Sep 1915. Serial No: 10/44. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (55 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (18 x 11cm, grey card binding), printed matter Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 70 digitised images

Date: ca 1915

From: Martin, W W :World War One albums of Mr Laurie C Mackie

Reference: PA1-o-308-04-3

Description: Unidentified New Zealand World War 1 soldier, in uniform, standing by the Virgin Mary's tree, Zeitoun, Egypt, photographed circa 1915, probably by Laurie C Mackie. Shows the soldier standing before a fence and a padlocked gate, with the tree behind. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Zeitoun Egypt The Virgin Mary's Tree Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 5.1 x 7.6 cm (visible image) mounted on album page

Date: [ca 1914-1918, 1990s]

By: McKay, George Riddall, 1890-1951; Edmonds, Brian, active 2009

Reference: PA1-o-1525

Description: Photograph album compiled by George Riddall McKay comprising photographs of McKay's service during World War I in Egypt. Includes photographs of warships returning from Dardenelles, trams, Eyptian people, buildings, policemen, holy sites, river boats, New Zealand ambulances and hospitals, and the Sphinx and pyramids. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 16 x 21.5 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McKay, George Riddall, 1890-1951: Papers relating to World War One (MS-Group-1767).

Date: During World War I

From: Leversedge, S :Unidentified photographs

Reference: PAColl-0154-2

Description: World War I New Zealand Army Service Corps open air mess in the desert at Zeitoun, Egypt. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - NZ ASC mess in the open on desert at Zeitown [sic] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 1915]

From: Williams, Charles Athol, 1899-1990 : Photographs of Te Aute Station, Mangakuri Station, the Williams family, and Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey during World War I

Reference: PAColl-0184-1-031

Description: Horses of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, at Zeitoun, Egypt, during World War I. Photograph taken circa 1915. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: W M R horses at Zeitoun Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 11.1 x 16.9 cm

Date: 20 Aug 1914-3 Jan 1915

From: Malone, William George (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1859-1915 : Diaries and letters

Reference: MSX-2549

Description: Letter book records military memoranda and detailed letters from Malone to his wife. Also letters to family members, friends and business colleagues. Memoranda was written 20 Aug 1914 when Malone was based in the Awapuni Camp. Letters continue from early Oct 1914 as the transport ships prepare to leave Wellington for Egypt. Most letters are written to Mrs Ida Malone. Final letter in volume is sent from Zeitoun Camp, Egypt on 3 Jan 1915. Malone expresses his affections for his wife and the difficulties of separation from his family. Publication - Published as No better death: the great war diaries and letters of William G Malone : edited by John Crawford with Peter Cooke. (Auckland : Reed Books, 2005) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (100 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph, carbon copy pages (21.5 cm, manifold book) Contains ink sketches including a drawing of transport ships from the perspective aboard the `HM NZT No.10 Arawa', page 8. Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 107 digitised images. Page 82 is missing.

Date: 6 Dec 1914-9 Jan 1915

From: Malone, William George (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1859-1915 : Diaries and letters

Reference: MSX-2543

Description: Diary continues directly from MSX-2542 with Malone arranging transport for soldiers to the Zeitoun Camp. Describes life in camp and the training regime for his men. Comments on going to church, parades, night marches, and the local people and identities in Zeitoun, Heliopolis and Cairo. Ends 9 Jan 1915 where soldiers are addressed by the Hon T McKenzie. Notes visiting his 49 sick men at Abbassiah Hospital, two men already dead from pneumonia. Publication - Published as No better death: the great war diaries and letters of William G Malone : edited by John Crawford with Peter Cooke. (Auckland : Reed Books, 2005) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (102 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph, carbon copy pages (21.5 cm, manifold book) Includes a sketch on page 5 depicting "The whole of WG Force" and a sketch on page 6 depicting "Desent - Wellington Reg" Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 116 digitised images

Date: 1914-1915

By: Constance, John Edward, 1894-1915

Reference: MSX-2845

Description: Diary covers the period 20 Aug 1914 to 15 Aug 1915 and provides a detailed day-by-day description of Private Constance's activities. Details joining the Army on 20 Aug 1914, training at Addington and travelling to Wellington for embarkation on 16 Oct 1915. Recorded his vote for the 1914 New Zealand general election. Sailed aboard the `Tahiti' with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion. Comments on shipboard life, sea sickness, rifle exercises, general drills, fatigue duties and tug-of-war competitions between soldiers. Stopovers in Hobart and Albany. General Godfrey and staff tour the transport on 20 Oct 1915 in Albany. Notes sinking of the German Navy light cruiser `SMS Emden' by the Australian light cruiser `HMAS Sydney' in 9 Nov 1915. During stopover on 16 Nov 1915 in Colombo the `Tahiti' takes on board seven prisoners who served aboard the `SMS Emden'. Arrives Aden 25 Nov 1915 then continues onto Suez Canal. Comments on soldiers' disappointment on learning the troops were not continuing onto England but being deployed in Egypt instead. Disembarked 3 Dec 1915 at Alexandria and entrained to Cairo and then Zeitoun Camp. Constance updates daily on military drills, parades, inspections, marches and skirmishing practice in the desert. On leave he visits Cairo and the Pyramids with other soldiers. Marched with the whole of the New Zealand Divisional Brigade through the streets of Cairo. Comments on being paid in shillings and writing letters home. 26 Jan 1915 leaves Zeitoun Camp for the camp at Ismailia. Company relieves troops at El Ferdan to repel a possible Turkish attack on Suez Canal. Comments on number of Turkish prisoners taken on his return to Ismailia, and then back to Zeitoun Camp. On 16 Mar 1915 the troops were inspected by Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, High Commissioner in Egypt. Ten days later Constance notes that his false teeth are broken after chewing tough beef. On Good Friday, 2 Apr 1915 Constance is in Cairo and witnesses the riot in the Ezbekieh Quarter between local Egyptians and Allied troops, comments on the drunks and arrested men. Entrains to Alexandria on 10 Apr 1915 and sails on the transport `Lutzow' with the Canterbury Battalion to the port of Mudros on the Mediterranean island of Lemnos. At anchor in the harbour with daily trips to the island for marching practice, training and leave. 24 Apr 1915 transport heads to the Gallipoli Peninsula lead by the British dreadnought battleship `HMS Queen Elizabeth'. 11.00am on 25 Apr 1915 leaves the `Lutzow' landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula and straight into action. Records fighting up on the firing line. Constance continues to record his daily life of bombardments by the Turkish Army, sniper fire, manning the trenches, and coming off the front line to be relieved and take sleep wherever he could find it. 3 May 1915 writes that the men were being "slaughtered wholesale" and provides a detailed account of the New Zealand soldiers trying to retire from their position in the face of enemy fire. Following weeks settles into a routine of front line activity, fatigue duty at the beach, burying the dead and rest. 19 May 1915 Constance and his section are transported onto the HMS Reindeer and sailed a couple of miles along the coast, they come ashore once more and commence the digging of trenches. Returned to original bivouac on 22 May 1915. Notes the sinking of the `HMS Triumph' on 25 May 1915. 4 Jun 1915 Canterbury Infantry raided from Quinn's Post, next day a sortie against the enemy at German Officers' Trench opposite Courtney's Post. 15 Jun 1915 Constance competes in a bomb throwing competition. Constance's Company travel to Mudros for rest on 15 Jul 1915. Comments on the men being sick "as they had eaten too many luxuries". Returns to Anzac Cove and duty on Walker's Ridge. Involved in the heavy fighting during the first week of Aug 1915. Last entry on 15 Aug 1915 as a party of Constance's Company advances beyond the trench lines to take a fort but are driven back and have to retire. Last page of diary has two quotes from history. Source of title - Provided by Library Relationship complexity - A portrait photograph of Constance has been digitised and is in the Photographic Archive (PAColl-10094) Private Constance left New Zealand with the Canterbury Infantry Battalion in Oct 1914. Trained in Egypt. Fought at Gallipoli, wounded late August 1915, died 2 Sep 1915 in a hospital in Alexandria. Serial Number: 6/1223A. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (68 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph (9 x 14 cm, fawn case) Provenance: Donor is nephew of Constance Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 114 digitised images

Date: 1916

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by May Stephens. ca 1905-1915].

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-1-033-1

Description: Photograph on the front of the postcard shows three soldiers in the uniform of the first World War. The man in the centre is seated and is flanked by two standing men. The handwriting on the verso indicates that the card was written in Zeitoun on February 19th 1916, and says: "Dear May, I received your letter allright and I still have the cushion which you gave me. I would not part with it. The chap in the photograph is Bob Randle. Has Alice picked up any new soldiers yet. I remain your cousin, A H Caines" Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photograph on postcard 141 x 90 mm.

Date: 10 Nov-6 Dec 1914

From: Malone, William George (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1859-1915 : Diaries and letters

Reference: MSX-2542

Description: Diary continues on directly from MSX-2541 with Malone discussing the sinking of the `Emden'. Describes very hot weather conditions and the effect on his soldiers. Gives a lecture to the men on military tactics. Comments on the suitability of some soldiers to their appointed ranks, his dislike of some onboard sporting competitions and crossing the Equator. Arrive Colombo 15 Nov 1914 and Malone provides a detailed account of vessels in harbour. Two day stop-over. Continues to detail shipboard life until the `Arawa' arrives in Aden on 25 Nov 1914, then onto Suez and Alexandria. Ends 6 Dec 1914 as Regiment prepares to leave Alexandria for Zeitoun. Publication - Published as No better death: the great war diaries and letters of William G Malone : edited by John Crawford with Peter Cooke. (Auckland : Reed Books, 2005) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (102 leaves). Physical Description: Holograph, carbon copy pages (21.5 cm, manifold book) Includes ink drawings throughout diary. Page 80 in diary, includes sketch of disc "NZ. MIL. Forces." Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 114 digitised images

Date: between 1914-1918

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 19

Reference: PAColl-7985-15

Description: New Zealand soldiers manipulating a Maxim machine gun at a camp in Zeitoun, Egypt, in the vicinity of Cairo, during World War 1. Photographer unidentified. Other Titles - New Zealanders manipulating a Maxim gun, Zeitoon, Cairo Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - New Zealanders manuipulating a Maxim gun, Zeitoon [sic], Cairo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 9 x 13.9 cm