Prictor, Walter, active 1940-1953

Date: [Sep 1950]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-148-027

Description: Group at Government House, Wellington, for investiture of Kiwi Concert Party producer Terry Vaughan with the MBE. In the front row are, from left: Morris Double, Ralph Dyer, Noel Habgood, Tony Rex, Lady Freyberg, His Excellency Sir Bernard Freyberg, Captain Terry Vaughan, Wally Prictor, Wally Barton, Thomas Kirk-Burnnand (former menber of party) and Lionel Leary (touring manager). Photograph taken September 1950 by a New Zealand Free Lance staff photographer. (Source: "New Zealand Free Lance", 27/9/50) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 148 x 215 mm

Date: [ca 1942-1943]

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-205

Description: Several captioned photographs of the Kiwi Concert Party: Sgt W Prictor and P Jay (female impersonators) in a review staged on the eve of the 8th Army offensive, Dec 1942; three singers (M Double, I Hanna & J Reed); Kiwi Revue in Italy; Awatea Maori Choir at the British Forces Station, Bari (named on back); scene during the New Zealanders Desert Christmas celebrations, 1942; four members of the staff of the British Forces Station, Bari; Maori concert party; group of women performers in evening gowns, and several unidentified photos. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1945

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WII-1945-01

Description: Photocopy of programme for a shipboard concert, as the "Oranje" returned to New Zealand. The front cover features a print of the Siege of Alkmaar, August 21st - October 8th, 1573, by Don Frederick of Toledo. The performers in the concert included: George Hau, The Army Spinsters, Wally Prictor, Eric Barker, Lester Winfield, C/Sister Haworth, Sister Higgins, Nurse Fenton, Tiny Eggers & Oscar, A S Haronga, Anzacs, M Valster & F Mol, Theo Newbegin, Nurse Robertson, Lt Somerville, Padre Norris, Sam Weller, Theo & Pete, Frank Hollings, Sister Higgins, Peter Lea, Wally & Bill Boyce, Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photocopy on four-page programme, 240 x 173 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr A K Holmes, Auckland, in 2007.

Date: 28 Sep 1946

Reference: MSDL-1816

Description: Scan of double page of an autograph book with signatures from the Kiwi Concert Party when touring Australia in 1946. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music The image is scanned from an autograph book belonging to the donor's mother, Florence Wood (née Appleton) who was living in Perth at the time of the Kiwi Concert Party's tour of Australia in 1946. Quantity: 1 electronic scan(s).

Date: 1950

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1950].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1950-02-centre

Description: An arrangement of text, with autographs of Wally Prictor, Wally Barton, Allan Brown, John Reidy, David C Stafford, Tony Rex, and Noel Habgood. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on centre opening of programme.. Physical Description: Photolithograph with autographs, 245 x 370 mm.

Date: 1950 - 1951

From: [Theatre programmes for variety, comedy, and music-hall shows and performances toured throughout New Zealand. 1950-1959].

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-1950-01-04/05

Description: An arrangement of text, with a photograph of an audience of "Tommies" on the left page, and a full-length portrait and head and shoulders portrait of Wally Prictor as himself and in woman's clothing. Previous editions of the souvenir were published from ca 1946. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on inside pages of booklet.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on double-page spread 273 x 436 mm.

Date: December 1942

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-205-08

Description: Sergeant Wally Prictor (left) and P.Jay, female impersonators with the New Zealand Army's Kiwi Concert Party, in the Middle East. Photographed by an official war photographer in December 1942. This photograph was taken at the time of a Kiwi Concert Party review staged in the Western Desert on the eve of the 8th Army Offensive. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 12.7 x 11 cm.

Date: 1950

From: [Theatre ephemera and programmes for music-hall, comedy and variety productions in New Zealand, in 1950].

Reference: Eph-A-VARIETY-1950-02-11

Description: Five head and shoulder portraits. Signed portraits include: Red Moore and Glen Millins. Unsigned portraits are: Wally Prictor, James Lavery and Cecil Morris. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of programme.. Physical Description: Photolithograph with autographs, 245 x 185 mm.