New Zealand. Army. New Zealand General Hospital, No. 1

Date: [ca 1915 - ca 1917]

From: Dibble, Lyna Todd, 1884-1975: Photographs relating to service as a nurse during World War One

Reference: PA1-o-1913

Description: Album of photographs relating to the service of Lyna Todd Newell (later Dibble) as a nurse in Egypt and England during World War One, taken between circa 1915 and 1917. Newell, who features as a subject on some of the photographs, probably took many of the images in this collection. Includes captions, but most are too faint to read. - Features three pictures under the heading "1st Wedding in the NZ ANS [New Zealand Army Nursing Service] - Cairo", taken at the wedding of Nurse Mildred Jane Ellis and Lieutenant Alexander Edward Wrottesley Salt at Cairo, 21 May 1916. - Includes photographs taken in Egypt circa 1915-1916 showing gate of New Zealand General Hospital in Cairo, military personnel posing with camels at the pyramids and Great Sphinx of Giza, temple ruins and pillars at Luxor, group portrait of Egyptian women, and hospital train in Alexandria. Other images show the sultan's palace, the sultan's guard, a swing bridge over a canal in Barrage Gardens, the river Nile, and the citadel of Cairo. - Images from England feature Bournemouth Beach, Bournemouth Gardens, also the Rufus Stone and Compton Arms Hotel, in New Forest. Photographs taken at Balmer Lawn Section, No 1 NZ General Hospital, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England in circa 1917, show interior views showing hospital wards, building exteriors, grounds, patients and nurses. - Scotland is featured in images taken at Edinburgh, Ellen's Isle in Loch Katrine, and at Loch Lomond. - From New Zealand there are photographs of a parade of Reinforcements at Trentham. - Australian scenes include troops marching past Dog Rock in Albany, Western Australia. - Also includes image of a Canadian Women's Motor Ambulance and the Cunard Line ship RMS 'Aquitania'. - A series of images of Gallipoli probably not taken by Newell. Arrangement: Album originally received with eight loose prints and greeting card enclosed - these are now at PAColl-10385 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album (labelled: Manufactured by the Heinn Co. Milwaukee, Wis[consin] 0663), black leather binding with title, 'Jaunts Abroad', in gilt lettering on cover, black pages with plain paper interleaving, 18 x 30 cm.

Date: 1914-1939

By: Qualis Photo Company; Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0608

Description: Photographs of life at the New Zealand General Hospital No 1 at Brockenhurst including patients being transferred by stretcher on to the hospital train and a soldier feeding chickens in the grounds. Also in the collection are a number of photographs of men in uniform (few captioned); a postcard of a woman with the message "To Ernie with fond love from Iris"; a man in a buggy harnessed to a horse for trotting races; a family group mostly of girls and young woman; and two faded prints of a soldier getting into a car on street with bunting on the house. Some of the names given are: Cpl W Dennis(?), T Herbert, M O'Connor, Gunner Lay, J Page, Dickenson, Clayton, Young(?), A Ross, J Alen. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I

Reference: PAColl-0400-2

Description: Postcards of nurses and New Zealand army officers convalescing. They include: the hospital ship Marama in Alexandria harbour; one of a soldier in tropical uniform with the caption "Yours severely scorpioned L C Kenney 22/10/15"; two army patients signed "8/3475 L Ballantine 2/10/17" and addressed to Sister Commons at Brockenhurst Hospital; and one captioned Epsom Nursing Division St John's Ambulance from which the workers of the Epsom Convalescent Home are drawn with the following names: back row - Nurses Craig, Snelling, Reid, Morton, Beale, McLaughlan, Walsh, Cumming, Young; middle row - Nurses Baird, Sinclair, Oliphant, Neill, Commons, Dawason, Chamtalour, Goodfellow, Summer, Clark, Daubney, Mackay, M Hesketh; front row - Nurses Buller, Butler, Turner, Firth (superintendant), Dr Dudley, Towle, Abbott, Macfarlane. Quantity: 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1939-1940

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: McKenzie, J S (Private), active 1940

Reference: PA1-q-293

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel in New Zealand, England and Egypt, taken 1939-1940 and compiled for official use. Most of the images have good captions, and most of the names noted are listed above. The album includes a number of British Official Photographs. Scenes include New Zealanders in the advance party sailing from Melbourne in December 1939; shipboard scenes of the First Echelon arriving in Egypt; Freyberg welcoming the troops on arrival with Anthony Eden (Secretary of State for the Dominions) and Sir Miles Lampson; the train service between the NZ camp and Cairo; Egyptian workmen helping construct the camp, and women doing the laundry; Divisional Signallers lined up on motor bikes. Battle practice and army life in the desert: anti-tank & anti-aircraft practice; bren guns; vehicle maintenance; blacksmiths; operating the telephone exchange; engineering work; sorting mail; manufacturing field oven; chopping wood for the oven; food preparation; boot mending; camp cinema; various games including cards, bowls, cricket, swimming, boxing; disinfecting plant for killing pests in soldiers' blankets; digging trenches; erecting tents. Opening of the Kiwi Club at Helwan, formed through the efforts of Lady Lampson. Three photographs taken by a sergeant of the Royal Marines, showing action related to the battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the Battle of the River Plate (p 65, 111, 133) New Zealanders resident in England who volunteeered at the outbreak of war are shown training with the Eastern Command; manoevres with the 2nd Echelon in Britain, and the opening of a new club for New Zealanders in Charing Cross Road; Winston Churchill visiting Australian and New Zealand troops in 1940; NZ armourers and wireless operators working for the RAF; information about the longest non-stop reconnaisance flight made in a Vickers Wellington bomber, piloted and crewed by members of the RNZAF Bomber Squadron (5 crew + 1 officer from the Navy to assist in ship identification); and Winston Churchill visiting Australian and New Zealand troops. In Libya scenes show a motor rail car which patrolled the rail to Matruh; "Whare Kiwi" dugout in the Libyan Desert; The first air raid experienced in a small village in the Cairo area. NZ airmen arrive in Canada for training in the Empire Air Trianing Scheme; haka led by Pine Takarangi. Transportation of troops and equipment across inland water, use of collapsible assault boats and building bridges. Western Desert battle; Italian and Libyan prisoners of war; captured tanks and vehicles; view of the Italian defence line; also the surrender of Traghen when the whole population of the Libyan Fort marched out in surrender. Various hospital scenes, both in England and in Egypt, including occupational therapy activities. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 26 Sep 1940-28 Oct 1940

Reference: MS-Papers-8886

Description: Letter from Eddie, 1st NZ General Hospital, 2nd NZEF, Overseas, to Mabel, 26 Sep - 28 Oct 1940 [Berkshire, England and onboard troop ship to Capetown] re time in London, air raids, Overseas League Club, impression of England and its people, dating a Welsh girl, mail problems, RAF men and life aboard troopship. Mentions a Ted Little, a Sandy Banks of Crawthorne, Berkshire, cousin of Sapworth family in New Zealand, and receiving a letter from an Olga Watson. Possibly Eddie and Mabel are siblings. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms and transcript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, 2007

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

From: Crawford, John Alexander Brodie, active 1990-2017: Collection

By: Qualis Photo Company

Reference: PAColl-1494

Description: Copies of photographs of New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst, England, showing men in traction in the wards, men in their beds outside with parasols against the sunshine, a group of nurses, a large group of soldiers and nurses and the "tents picnic", and three men in wheeled wicker beds outside. Quantity: 6 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1917

By: Hobbs, Juliet Virginia, 1924-2005

Reference: PAColl-3025

Description: Panorama of staff & patients of no.1 NZ General Hospital Brockenhurst, March 1917 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1914-1918

From: Lawrie, G :Photographs and postcards relating to nursing in World War I

By: Elliott & Fry (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-2293

Description: Two photographs of groups of nurses outside the hospital at Brockenhurst, one including two New Zealand army officers. One is taken by Elliott & Fry of London and includes the following names: back row - Sister Sinclair, Thomson (Martin), Newell, Mrs Radcliffe (VAD), Sister Douglas; middle row - Sisters Reidy, Drummond, Wise, Lea, Major Home, Captain Julian, Sisters Kidd, Crispin, James, M Boyd; front row - Sisters Commons, Samson, Scott (Matron), Moore. Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1887-1920 (transcribed 1975)

By: Smith, Ralph, 1887-1976

Reference: qMS-1829

Description: Covers his childhood in Napier, including memories of Te Kooti and William Colenso; employment as a horse-driver; work on Greenmeadows Fruit Farm; coachdriver at Manaia, then in Dannevirke; service with 4th Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade on Western Front and convalescence at Brockenhurst and Hornchurch Hospitals in England. Mention of James Ellis' escape following his murder of Leonard Collinson, and capture by police. He was tried and executed in Feb 1905 Source of title - Front cover Smith had a varied career as a farm-worker, driver and shepherd in the Hawkes Bay region and served in France, during the First World War and was wounded. He retired to Wanganui as an engineer. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (88 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (33 cm; ¼ red morocco, green patterned boards)

Date: 19 Dec 1916

By: Callaway, Archie, active 1916

Reference: MS-Papers-4392

Description: Comprises a letter from Otway to Archie Callaway of Timaru with personal advice and a description of life at Brockenhurst Hospital (19 Dec 1916) Arthur Otway left New Zealand in 1914 with the NZ Medical Corps. After a period in Egypt he served as a medical orderly at No 1 NZ General Hospital at Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1916

By: Kirkland, Charles Mitchell, 1894-1967

Reference: MSX-9347

Description: The diary of Rifleman C M Kirkland describes training at Rangiotu, near Wanganui, embarkation, battles and trench warfare around Armentieres, his injury, recovery in England at Brockenhurst Hospital and return to New Zealand. The entries are disjointed but give a vivid account of the fighting and the experience of being under bombardment in the frontline trenches. Handwritten label of front cover of diary reads "Dad's diary written during the 1st World War. He was a patient in Brockenhurst Hospital". Three pages, dealing with his training at Rangiotu, were torn, presumably by Kirkland, from the body of the diary and have been placed in the envelope inside the front cover. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - The donor requests a transcript if the diary is deciphered and transcribed. Charles Kirkland served with the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade in France during 1916 and was involved in the fighting around Armentieres. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Michelle Kirkland, Reading, England, in Oct 2014

Date: March 1917

By: Twisleton, Nancy Groves, 1911-2002

Reference: PA6-868

Description: Panoramic photograph of staff of the No 1, New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst, taken March 1917 by Panora Ltd. One of the subjects is identified as Miss F H Speedy. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) Panorama. Physical Description: Silver gelatin panoramic print, 19.7 x 103.2 cm. Processing information: This item was flattened as part of a panorama flattening project in 2021. It had previously been stored rolled.

Date: March 1917

Reference: PA6-869

Description: Panoramic photograph of staff of the No 1, New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst, taken March 1917 by Panora Ltd. The names of some of the subjects are listed on verso. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) Panorama. Physical Description: Silver gelatin panoramic print, 18.3 x 101cm. Provenance: The photograph had previously belonged to Sister Rona Commons, who is one of the subjects of the photograph. Processing information: This item was flattened as part of a panorama flattening project in 2021. It had previously been stored rolled.

Date: 1904-1926

By: Ryburn family

Reference: MS-Group-1796

Description: Eric Ryburn, a law student at Otago University, sailed from New Zealand with the Third Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He served with the Otago Infantry Regiment and saw action at Gallipoli and later on the Western Front. On 14 July 1916 he was wounded and was hospitalised in England. When he was fit he undertook officer training and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant. Ryburn was killed in action at Ypres in Belgium, 12 October 1917. Quantity: 15 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.18 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs S Robinson, Gisborne (on behalf of the Ryburn family), 2009

Date: 6 May 1941

By: Prosser family

Reference: MS-Papers-5339

Description: The letter describes Janet Prosser's experiences in May 1941 in the evacuation of the nurses from the 1st NZEF General Hospital in Greece Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (5 leaves) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr Ashley-Jones, Khandallah, Wellington, 1995, as executor of Janet Prosser's estate

Date: Nov 1915-Dec 1916, 2000

By: Burnet, Dorothy Mary, 1897-1990

Reference: MSX-5755

Description: The letters contain an account of Burnet's experiences in New Zealand, France and England while on active service Source of title - Supplied Burnet underwent preliminary training at Trentham and Tauherenikau military camps before being shipped to France where he saw action with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. He received a leg wound fighting at the Somme in Sept 1916 and was shipped to Brockenhurst Hospital to convalesce before being invalided back to New Zealand in Jan 1917. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript Provenance: Original holograph letters were transcribed by Dorothy Brewins (Burnet). She passed this transcript to her nephew, Denis Ward and this typescript copy was produced by his wife, Mary Ward in 2000.

Date: [ca 1910-1986]

From: Nelson, Royal Cullen, 1897-1988 : Papers, mainly relating to scouting

Reference: MSZ-1303

Description: Mainly photographs, correspondence, postcards, greeting cards, receipts, certificates, and other ephemera. Material relating to Gjerson family (later known as Nelson); Jaeger family; World War I (including concert on board Mamari); St Augustine's Petone Boy Scouts; scouting history (1908-1950s); Brookfield Scout Camp; Crowther family and Mary Ursula Crowther (d 1958); Palliser Bay photographs (including Mukamuka); Burdan's farm; personal records re school, war and scouting; R L Button & Co re pension scheme. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 15 May 1988

From: World War I Oral History Archive

By: Le Lievre, Florence Rawhiti Arohanui, 1893-1992

Reference: OHInt-0006/50

Description: Recalls father's occupation (health officer), entry into nursing in 1914 at Napier Hospital, voyage to United Kingdom, Brockenhurst No. 1 New Zealand Hospital, Codford, 'Tin Town', describes living and nursing conditions, English VADs, New Zealand and English troops compared, Matron Mabel Thurston, friendship with troops, future husband - Clem, life after war, circumstances of own birth, education, details of daughters, gangrene, Red Cross visitors, Armistice Day, difference between Brockenhurst and Codford Camps, venereal disease, Ettie Rout in detail, return to New Zealand, the Government's role in rehabilitation, husband's war service, farming after the war, effect of war on her. Venue - Whakatane Interviewer(s) - Jane Tolerton Interviewer(s) - Nicholas Boyack Venue - Mary Shapley Home, Stewart St, Whakatane Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 492. Black and white photograph of Florence Le Lievre

Date: [ca 1914 to ca 1955]

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10309-06

Description: Photographs relating to World War One including the New Zealand Army hospitals, Brockenhurst and Mount Felix, England, and circa 1914 to circa 1955. Photographers unidentified. Also includes scenes taken in Jerusalem by G Eric Matson and The Matson Photo Service, possibly produced as tourist souvenirs during World War I. - World War One images are unidentified groups of men and women, and one of ambulances. - Brockenhurst images show the building and surrounding area, including St Nicholas church. Quantity: 32 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1917-1918

From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history

Reference: MSX-8898

Description: Diaries kept by A Clive Johns, 9th Hawkes Bay Company, 1st Battalion, Wellington Infantry Brigade while on active service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War One. The diaries commence on 1 Jan 1917 while Johns was undergoing training at Sling Camp. On 12 February he landed in France where he saw action until 17 October when he was wounded by a shell. He was hospitalised in England at Brockenhurst. He left England for New Zealand aboard the hospital ship `Marama' on 7 April 1918. See 2003/107, MS-2003-107 for related material at the Auckland Museum Library. A C Johns books and scrapbooks are in box 23 of this collection. Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss