Rommel, Erwin, 1891-1945

Date: [ca 1941-1946], 1967

Reference: PAColl-9968

Description: Photographs, mainly relating to the 'Maunganui' and particularly when she was operating as a hospital ship during World War II between 1941-1945. Many images of the ship and portraits of medical, naval and army personnel - some named or autographed. Photographers unidentified. Images include: crew of an American ship sunk by a u-boat; scenes at Port Tewfick, Egypt, including loading patients; a group at Club Atlas in Panama in 1946 ; the 'Maunganui' at Evans Bay, Wellington in 1946; reunion of medical and marine personnel at Logan Park, Auckland, in 1967. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 36 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 item(s) of photographic ephemera. 2 newspaper clippings. Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints, newspaper clippings Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - Eph-B-SHIP-Maunganui: Union Steamship Company of New Zealand: Ephemera collected on board the Maunganui, and other Union Line ships 1925-1958, 1969. Also see Published (3 issues of serial 'What knots' (1945)..

Date: [ca 1970]

From: Craig, Elsdon Walter Grant, 1917-1980 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7888-165

Description: The title is a misnomer, being a writing tablet of drafts, probably for articles, and contains only one reference to `the boy Brett'. Includes notes on Te Aroha, Stephenson Percy Smith, Rommel's campaign in North africa, and the Craig family. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1940-1945]

By: Robinson, Leonard Rennell James, 1919-2000

Reference: PAColl-9923

Description: Photographs of Robinson and others taken during his service in the New Zealand Medical Corps in World War II. Also an image including German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. Includes: One, possibly two, taken at the 1 New Zealand General Hospital in Egypt One of soldiers Bob Broadbent, John Rangi and Robinson, possibly in New Zealand One featuring the German General Rommel with a note on the back that reads: "This is my friend who had me prisoner for four days. Remember? Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Sandra Robinson, Hamilton, 2011. Donor is daughter of Leonard Rennell James Robinson. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2006: Robinson, Leonard Rennell James, 1919-2000: Papers.

Date: Sep 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: DA-02894B-F

Description: Official captured film showing Brigadier George Herbert Clifton (left), after being taken as a prisoner of war, seen with General Erwin Rommel (2nd from right) and other German personnel in Egypt during World War II. Taken in September 1943 by an unidentified photographer. Film for this image taken from a German paratrooper killed on Crete Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

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

Reference: DA-03435

Description: The German General, Erwin Rommel, lifting a glass in salute to the photographer, as he takes a drink with military colleagues on campaign in Libya, North Africa. Photographed by an unknown photographer about 1941. Photograph captured from the German army Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: film negative

Date: 1941-1945

By: Pickrang, Francis John, 1915-1998; Killoh, Keith Gordon, 1907-1994

Reference: PA1-q-1180

Description: Comprises photograph album belonging to Sapper Francis Pickrang (service no. 32297) relating to his service with the New Zealand Engineers, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy during World War Two. Taken between circa 1941 and 1945 by unidentified photographer(s) and K G Killoh. -Studio portraits of Pickrang and other unidentified servicemen include a sailor in naval uniform and a woman. Also includes a studio portrait of Pickrang at a desk writing letters home. He appears to be looking towards an inset image of a woman and child. -Scenes taken in Western Desert locations include informal snaps of Francis Pickrang, an unidentified sailor in naval uniform, and other army soldiers in camp life, sight-seeing at local landmarks, working at military construction projects and on the coast. Images of interest include: troops at the 'El Djem' theatre, Maadi Camp, Egypt, an army jeep with a silver fern logo and a picture of a Maori man with moko on the bumper, men washing clothes and drinking beer, men posing beside 'Monteith's Beer' graffiti, various bulldozers, tanks, army trucks and Caterpillar diesel vehicles at work, possibly a dredge offshore, the 'Auckland-Greymouth Clipper' army truck, a soldier posing beside a camp sign '10 Downing Street', soldiers posing with Egyptian locals and Sikh men, and soliders on motorcycles. -Scenes possibly taken in Libya include: bombed out buildings, Christian churches and Arabic style grand buildings, the 'Atlantic Hotel', a pyramid, soldiers swimming (sometimes nude) and beside trucks at a coastal location, earthworking machinery (road building?), RAF Hawker Hurricane and Bristol Beaufighter aeroplanes and a German Fieseler Fi 56 aeroplane on the ground, an aeroplane wreck, city streets with business signs in European languages, a coach, war graves, and signs for 'Nufilia' (Nofilia) and 'Feldlazarett' (German field hospital). -Scenes of interest taken in Egypt include an aeroplane named 'Asproliner', soldiers socialising, ambulances, a YMCA sign on a grand building, the YMCA Lowry Hut building at Maadi Camp, mosques, Qaitbay Citadel and the harbour of Alexandria, unidentified city streets, and cave homes. -Scenes relating to military medical services include: interior of a hospital in a grand house, doctors performing an operation in a tent, New Zealand and Red Cross flags, various New Zealand ambulances, a stretcher being loaded on an aeroplane, and an American Field Service ambulance. Includes duplicate image from the Department of Internal Affairs War History Branch collection of the 5th New Zealand Advanced Dressing Station ambulances at San Elia. -Scenes taken in Italy include images of the countryside and villages, bombed buildings, historic churches, fountains and buildings, city streets and piazzas, stone bridges, army trucks on the road, soldiers in camp, and piles of spent shells. Includes images of Italian peasants and children, haymaking and washing laundry. Also includes St Peter's Basilica and the Colosseum, Rome, Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore and the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Roman archway in Alife, the fountain at the Royal Palace of Caserta, and Roman ruins. Also includes an Italian man with a chained bear. -Includes postcards showing Benito Mussolini at a rally and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Source of title - title supplied Library Inscriptions: Recto - centre - inside front cover inscribed '2 NZEF presented to 32297 Sapper F. Pickrang by the Government of New Zealand in recognition of his work with the New Zealand Engineers Middle East in the Second World War 1939-1945' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black album with silver decorative edging and silver lettering 'Photograph album' on cover, spiral bound, 33.5 x 29 cm Provenance: Purchase, March, 2014