Don Peat's photograph album

Date
1936-1941
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).

Access restrictions
No access restrictions
Part of
Peat family: Photographs
Format
1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs
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