Established 13 April 1912. The Royal Air Force (established 1 April 1918) took over the functions of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service.
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Official photographs, Great War 1914-1918
Date: 1917-1918
From: World War 1914-1918 albums
By: Sanders, Henry Armytage, 1886-1936
Reference: PA1-f-085
Description: Album comprises: Official photographs of NZEF in France and Belgium, taken 1917-1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Scenes in Belgium and France taken ca 1917-1918 by unknown photographers, including tank warfare, Royal Flying Corps, observation balloons, parachute jumping, flight training, aircraft maintenance, medical services, sport and recreation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Maroon morrocco bound album 36.5 x 48 cm
Warburton, Edward Darien, b 1887 : Papers
Date: 1916-1920
By: Warburton, Edward Darien, 1887-1942
Reference: MS-Papers-9595
Description: Personal papers relating to Warburton's military service during World War One. Comprises photocopies of letters to his mother while he was training in England with the Royal Flying Corps, and various forms and official papers relating to his war service. Nothing on his service in Gallipoli with the Auckland Mounted Rifles Source of title - Supplied by Library Edward Warburton served with the Auckland Mounted Rifles in Gallipoli. After being invalided to England joined the Royal Flying corps Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: holographs, Mss, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mrs C I Claridge, Auckland, 2009 Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PA-Group-00524 - Transferred from Photographic Archive, who hold Warburton's photograph albums.
World War 1914-1918. Aerial photographs of Messines
Date: June 1917
From: World War 1914-1918 albums
By: Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Reference: PA1-f-095
Description: Aerial photographs of the Battle of Messines, taken ca June 1917 by squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Creator unknown :Photograph album described as a World War I album of Royal Flying Corp...
Date: [ca 1914-1920]
Reference: PA1-o-1751
Description: Photograph album described as a World War I album of the Royal Flying Corps and Australian Flying Corps in Mesopotamia and India compiled by an unidentified New Zealand officer (a pilot?). Photographer(s), and compiler of album, unidentified. Images show biplanes including a crashed Bristol F.2b fighter (page 2 upper and 3 upper, and page 7 lower and on right), a RAF BE2e (page 3 lower), a rare Airco DH.10 (on page 7 upper), and an Avro 504K (page 7 lower and on left) ; scenes in India - in areas later known as Pakistan - Kabul River, Kohat Pass, a building labelled 'Wing HQ in D.I.K' (Dera Ismail Khan); also a scene in Port Said, Egypt; members of the military; local people including a group of'char wallahs'; camels and monkeys. Possibly associated with Royal Air Force No 97 Squadron which used Airco DH.10 aircraft in India while providing support to the army on the North-West Frontier between 1918-1920. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Auction catalogue describes album as a 'WWI album of the Royal Flying Corps and Australian Flying Corps in Mesopotamia and India' from information provided to them from their vendor. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue green fabric covers, 15.2 x 11.2 cm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2011
World War 1914-1918. NZ War Museum aerial photos, period 11
Date: 21 March 1918 - 12 August 1918
From: World War 1914-1918 albums
By: Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Reference: PA1-f-098
Description: Aerial photographs of the Western Front, showing the Colincamps - Hebuterne area, taken 21 March - 12 August 1918 by squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - N.Z. War Museum aerial photos. Period 11. Holding up German advance (Hebuterne - Colincamps). 21/3/18 - 12/8/18. During this period the New Zealand Division held up a German advance. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
World War 1914-1918. NZ War Museum aerial photos, period 9
Date: April-August 1917
From: World War 1914-1918 albums
By: Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Reference: PA1-f-096
Description: Aerial photographs of the Western Front, showing the Messines - Ploegsteert and Frelinghein - La Basse areas, taken April-August 1917 by squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - N.Z. War Museum aerial photos. Period 9. Messines - Ploegsteert, Frelinghein - La Basse. Apl. 1917 - Aug. 917. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Manson, Cecil Murray, 1896-1981 : Papers re service in Royal Flying Corps
Date: 1914-1918, 1950
By: Manson, Cecil Murray, 1896-1987
Reference: 90-410
Description: Comprise two notebooks containing notes taken while training, two flight logs for his service in Palestine, a pictorial representation of the Dardanelles campaign, an album of photographs taken while in Egypt and Palestine, also including tipped in passage from flight logs, a Royal Flying Corps Training Transfer Card, and a booklet of personal service details. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 box(es). 0.70 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, printed matter, photographs Processing information: Not yet listed
Scrapbook relating to early British military aviation (II)
Date: [ca 1905-1999]
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MSZ-1581
Description: Scrapbook labelled `Royal Flying Corps; Royal Navy Air Service and early Royal Air Force'. Includes correspondence, military documents, photographs and newspaper cuttings Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photographs and printed matter
Scrapbooks relating to early British and New Zealand military aviation (I) and (III)
Date: [ca 1905-1999]
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MSZ-1583
Description: Scrapbooks labelled `Royal Flying Corps; Royal Navy Air Service, Royal Air Force, New Zealand Territorial Air Force, New Zealand Permanent Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force'. Include correspondence, military documents, photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to air warfare in World ar One and to the development of an air force in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 box(es) (2 pieces). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photographs and printed matter
World War 1914-1918. NZ War Museum aerial photos, period 10
Date: August 1917 - March 1918
From: World War 1914-1918 albums
By: Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Reference: PA1-f-097
Description: Aerial photographs of the Western Front, showing the Ypres - Passchendaele and Polderhoek Chateau areas, taken August 1917 - March 1918 by squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - centre - N.Z. War Museum aerial photos. Period 10. Ypres - Passchendaele, Polderhoek Chateau. Aug. 1917 - Mar. 1918. Quantity: 1 album(s).
Langfier Ltd (London, England): Portrait of Alfred de Bathe Brandon
Date: [ca 1914-1918]
By: Langfier Ltd
Reference: PAColl-10001
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Alfred de Bathe Brandon (1883-1974) in Royal Flying Corps uniform taken during World War I by Langfier Ltd in London, England. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Embossed: Langfier Ltd Studios, 23A, Old Bond Street, W. 343 Finchley Road NW; Mount recto - beneath image - Paper attached to mount with inscription: [bringing?] machines, yours sincerely, Bathe Brandon Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 19.7 x 14 cm, on mount 31 x 22 cm Provenance: Purchase by auction, 2012. No further provenance information known.
Photographs of a Watchmakers and Jewellers Conference in Auckland, South African and Fi...
Date: ca 1900-1920
From: Lloyd Papers :Photographs of the Watchmakers and Jewellers Conference in Auckland, Lloyd jewellers shop and New Zealand officers in the South African War
By: Brown, John Henry, active 1899-1906
Reference: PAColl-4463
Description: Photograph of a group of ten men which may be of the New Zealand Retail Watchmakers and Jewellers Annual Conference; a large group of army officers in dress uniform including bandoliers seated and standing round dining tables prior to leaving for the South African War (photographer was J H Brown); a blimp with the marking S.S. E.2 (probably Royal Air Force) in 1917; and a postcard of what may be cadets of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s).
Papers relating to Lieutenant William Rhodes-Moorhouse VC
Date: [1960-1991]
From: Bryant, George A, active 1964-2004 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6845-1
Description: Comprises draft of article, `Maori-Pakeha romance in pioneering New Zealand; first Air VC grandson of Maori chieftainess', published newspaper articles and notes relating to the Rhodes-Moorhouse family, particularly Lieutenant William Rhodes-Moorhouse, VC, and typescript article, `Will's flying 1910', about flying, and including transcripts of Rhodes-Moorhouse material Quantity: 1 folder(s). Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs relating to Rhodes-Moorhouse, Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand Day and the Maori Bible.
Correspondence and Warburton family papers
Date: 1840-1917
From: Warburton-Grove family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5937-16/5
Various artists :[American bookplates commissioned by persons whose names begin with th...
Date: 1900 - 1960
From: The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham. [1500-1950s]
By: Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931; Evans, John William, 1855-; Junge, Carl Stephen, 1880-1934; O'Harris, Pixie, 1903-1991
Reference: BOOKPLATES-Graham-US-F/H
Description: Arranged in boxes alphabetically according to the name of the person for whom the plate was made. Contains plates made for: Franc B S Falkiner (by E E F) Lucy Frances Falkiner (by E F) Elizabeth Fee (pictured is a 3 masted ship sailing alongside a craggy white landmass. Framing the picture are 2 totem poles) Fhearghuis (full text reads "Ex Libris; Clann Fhearghuis su brath; The Chief of Clann-Fhearghuis of Stra-chur and Clann-Ailpein, C,M. etc.". Engraved by Chas J Lumb, 1929) Eugene Field H H and A L Flager (includes the name "Edge Wood", or possibly "Edgewood") Robert Stanley Flinn (initials of artist illegible, possibly H P or P H. Pictured is a path leading through wilderness towards a rocky peak. Bookplate includes 3 emblems; 1 which reads "RFC" within a winged wreath, upon which sits a crown, possibly emblem of the Royal Flying Corps; 1 which reads "Christo et Ecclesiae" and "ve ri tas"; 1 which reads "Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal") Ned Arden Flood (bookplate pictures several men within a stage or theatrical setting) Charles B Hoyt (handwritten text of bookplate illegible, possibly reads "H S H Woholt Sr. Auburndale - Mass") Albert Brown Fowler (by E F, 1923) Alfred Fowler (2 bookplates; 1 by A R, possibly Armand Rels; 1 by Junge, possibly Carl S Junge, picturing a man winding a bookpress) Gordon Fraser Juliette May Fraser J L Frazier (by Junge) Sarah Marie Fredericks Thomas Ewing French (initials at base of bookplate read "T.E.F.-A.N.M. 1925") Arthur Frisbie (by J F K, note on back of bookplate reads "F K") C M Gardiner Edmund H Garrett (bookplate includes stylised initials reading "E H G", a date "MD CCC XCIV" [1894], and text reading "Honoratus Qui Virtutem Honorat") Henry S Gerstle (by Ismael Smith. Pictured is a crowned man playing a harp, his audience a bare chested woman, with the name "David Rex" beside him. Possibly represents King David of the Bible) Hester Gibbs Flora E Gladding Leroy Goble (by Junge, possibly Carl S Junge) George Goodwin (in note attached to bookplate the collector has written "Goodwin, George; Attributed to Doolittle, Amos. Born in 1786. 1754. d. 1832?") Elizabeth Bancker Gribbel (by T Cole, possibly Timothy Cole) Edith Griffin (by E C S) Gwen (initials read "A.S.fc.", possibly indicating A S as the engraver) Ansel Franklin Hall Mills Hall (pictured is an imposing building among trees with a clock and bell. The full text reads "Mills College; Ex Libris; Mills Hall") Theodore Seymour Hall (includes the text "Elsmore Lake 1916") Walter Wile Hamburger (name below illustration illegible, possibly reads "E. K. Hess" or "E. K. Hass". Note on back of bookplate illegible, possibly reads "Amy Hamburger artist") Poul Frost Hansen (includes the text "Finis Dissimilis est Initii") Harriet (includes several staves of music) Frank Sampson Mason Harris Jerome A Hart Kees Hartmans (picturing a violin or viola and several books) Barrak Hays (attached note from collector reads "Hays, Barrack, Signed, I Hutt, Sculpt., Landscape...1790". Pictured is a broken tree upon which a shield emblazoned with 3 leaping animals is resting, and a beehive) Wm Leete Hays Alan W Hazelton (3 bookplates; 1 by R Louis, 1948; 2 by artist unknown. 2 feature a dog's head with protruding tongue as a heraldic type emblem) Alan Weaver Hazelton (2 bookplates; 1 by W C W, date illegible, possibly 1943. This bookplate includes an emblem of a bird with spread wings, below which is a dark cross [greek style cross with arms of equal length] within a white circle and the text "Military Welfare". Both bookplates share heraldic type imagery with a dog's head with protruding tongue and a shield with a cross [greek style cross with arms of equal length] and 3 circles enclosing a line and upward point) Edward Hirst (by Warbis, 1908) Michael W Hitrovo (brightly coloured bookplate of an elven child riding upon a hobby horse with a book for a saddle. The text reads "Off to Bookland") Percy F Hockings (initials of artist possibly read "P H" or "H P") Louis Edward Hoffman (possibly by Charles J Rider. Pictures a man wearing a "mountie" style hat standing in a wood alongside a lake) Herbert & Bertha C Hollands (by W E F, possibly William Edgar Fisher, 1931) The Home Club (full text reads "Ex Libris The Home Club; FMS MRS") Kenneth Hook W F Hodson (by W F H, 1893, owner is possibly also the artist) James Wesley Horne Richard M Hotaling (by D S. Full text of bookplate reads "B C; To remember Richard M. Hotaling [his book]". Pictured is an owl upon which lean 2 theatrical masks, presumably depicting Richard M Hotaling, 1 frowning and 1 smiling) Beth Howard John Lawrence Howard, III Walter Howard F W Hoyt (attached note from collector reads "...Hoyt, F.W., of Albany, N.Y., Engraved") Jno G Humpel (typed text on bookplate reads "Elkader, Iowa, 1880") George W Humphreys Mary I Humphries (by Pixie O'Harris) Edna Huntington (possibly by John W Evans) W P Hurst A J Hutchinson (by R H) Quantity: 64 b&w art print(s) on bookplates.. Physical Description: Engravings, etchings Provenance: Donated by David Graham in the 1950s.
Album relating to Melville Arthur White
Date: 20 Oct 1914-23 Apr 1917
From: Heathcote White, Alan, 1908-1986 : Papers
Reference: MSY-7036
Description: Album contains letters from Melville White (a relation of A H White) to his family in New Zealand, written from the day he left New Zealand on the "Maunganui" until three days before his death while serving with the Royal Air Corps in France. Letters are accompanied by photographs and postcards. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescripts, photographs