Mortars (Ordnance)
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Date:
1918
From:
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918
Ref:
1/2-013799-G
Description:
Members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the last front line before Le Quesnoy. Photographed some time in 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.
Other - P...
Free
Date:
1970 - 1989
From:
Smith family (collectors) :[Ephemera and posters relating to peace, nuclear-free movements, women's rights, the environment, and international affairs. 1970-1990s]
Ref:
Eph-B-SMITH-Peace
Description:
Includes material from the New Zealand Spartacist League, the Pacific Institute of Resource Management, Citizens for the Demilitarisation of Harewood, the Wo...
Date:
1879 - 1832 - 1880
From:
Hodgkins family including William Mathew Hodgkins :[Sketchbook and scrapbook, 1880s]
By:
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898
Ref:
E-038-q-2-002
Description:
A small mortar or cannon on a wheeled carriage, standing on a wooden platform, possibly seen by the artist on a visit to New Plymouth in 1879. There is a rou...
Date:
1915 - 1918
From:
[Postcard album of cards collected by Joye Eggers / Taylor. 1905-1970s].
By:
Daily mail (London, England)
Ref:
Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-8-038-btm
Description:
Shows four soliders loading a mortar into place in preparation for firing.
Other Titles - "Tommy's" nickname for a trench mortar is a "Flying pig", and this...
Date:
1914 - 1920 - 1918 - 1929
From:
Der Weltkrieg: Herausgegeben vom Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Dresden A 1 [Cigarette card album. 1920-1935?]
Ref:
Eph-F-WAR-WI-1920s-01-45
Description:
Album page shows six picture cards headed '1917: Neue Ausbildung und neue Waffen' [1917 - New training and new weapons], with a short paragraph of text below...
Date:
between 1943-1944
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
Ref:
PA1-f-107-06-5
Description:
Members of the Tonga Defence Force of 2nd NZEF (Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force), training with a 2" mortar in Tonga. Photograph taken between 1943-19...
Date:
Nov 1941
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
Ref:
DA-08295-F
Description:
German soldiers with a trench mortar, in Libya, November 1941. Taken by an unidentified German photographer.
Note on back of file print reads "Captured Germa...
Date:
15 December 1944
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:
Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004
Ref:
DA-07918-F
Description:
NZ mortar position near Faenza, Italy. Another bomb had just been fired into enemy positions less than 1000 yards away. Photograph taken by George Kaye on th...
Date:
21 Oct 1918
From:
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918
Ref:
1/2-013682-G
Description:
A fitter getting New Zealand 6" trench mortars ready for firing at Beauvois, France, during World War I. The gun casings remain on the carriages that are par...
Free
Date:
ca 22 Jan 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
Ref:
DA-02839-F
Description:
Open desert in the Sirte area, Libya, during World War 2, showing an enemy mortar exploding in front of advancing New Zealand soldiers who are crawling on th...
Date:
between 1943-1944
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
Ref:
PA1-f-107-06-4
Description:
Members of the Tonga Defence Force of 2nd NZEF (Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force), training with a 3" mortar in Tonga. Photograph taken between 1943-19...
Date:
Aug 1915
From:
Hampton, W A, fl 1915 :Copy of a photograph album relating to World War I
Ref:
1/2-168813-F
Description:
Soldiers with captured weapons, Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey, photographed August 1915 by Sergeant W A Hampton. Shows a Vickers machine gun and a mortar.
Ins...
Date:
22 Jan 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
Ref:
DA-06916-F
Description:
Unidentified New Zealand soldiers (probably from the 28th Battalion) working a 2 inch mortar in the Sirte area, Tripoli, Libya, 22 December, 1943. Photograph...
Date:
[1918]
From:
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918
Ref:
1/2-013800-G
Description:
Members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the support line before Le Quesnoy. Photographed some time in 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders.
Other - Prin...
Free
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
Ref:
WH-0556
Description:
World War 2 New Zealand soldiers with a 3 inch mortar in action during jungle training, Mono Island, Solomon Islands. Taken by an unknown photographer.
Quan...
Date:
1899-1902
From:
Wallace, G R, fl 1959 :Photographs of the South African War
Ref:
PAColl-6571-01
Description:
Cohorn mortar with a line of unidentified men (possibly Boer Republic fighters) behind it, near Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa. Taken between 1899 and 1902 b...
Date:
15 Apr 1918
From:
Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918
Ref:
1/2-013156-G
Description:
Soldiers carry mortar shells across open ground and stack them for a New Zealand trench mortar battery near Colincamps, France. Photograph taken 15 April 191...
Free
Date:
18 May 1944
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:
Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004
Ref:
DA-05702-F
Description:
Ammunition for mortars lies ready outside Cassino as the Allied advance continues in Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken on 18 May 1944 by George Fr...
Date:
15 Dec 1944
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:
Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004
Ref:
DA-07916-F
Description:
Unidentified member of a World War 2 New Zealand motar crew dispatching another bomb. Photograph taken by George Kaye, 15 December 1944, near Faenza, Italy. ...
Date:
1972
From:
Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By:
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Ref:
B-134-279
Description:
Shows Norman Kirk (Labour Party leader) and John Marshall (National Party leader) firing shells at each other, while "peace'loving people" take cover with pi...