3rd NZ General Hospital (Beirut, Lebanon)

Date: 1941-1943

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: PA1-q-304

Description: Photographs relating to the New Zealand Army Nursing Service in Egypt, the Western Desert and Italy, taken by an unidentified photographer. The only people named in the album are Matron-in-Chief of the 2nd NZEF, Emma Nutsey, and General Sir H Alexander who visited the No 2 New Zealand General Hospital in Caserta. The first section includes the No 1 New Zealand Casualty Clearing Station, North African campaig; Mersa Matruh, a group of nurses outside the German and Italian hospital at Mersa Matruh; the nurses' compound at El Garbanyat; nurses at Agedabia; a wrecked german plance at Agedabia; and washing day in the desert No 1 NZ General Hospital at Helwan, showing the exterior of the former Grand Hotel; the sister's mess and garden around the mess; award at Helwan; and the first "mess" wedding held at the Kiwi Club in Helwan. No 2 NZ General Hospital at Gerawla in the Western Desert; railway station; signs warning of minefields; packing for departure. No 2 NZ General Hospital at Caserta; flooding at Caserta; General Sir H Alexander visites Caserta; wedding of Lieutenant J Searing and his wife, the first military wedding at Caserta. No 3 NZ General Hospital (Helmieh, Egypt) at the Helmieh Garrison; nursing sisters' mess; tent accomodation; sick bay; convalescent soldiers; mud and straw bricks being transported by native labour; the No 3 Hospital moves out from Helmieh in a convoy en route to Beirut, Syria. Beirut, officers' mess, matron's cottage, sisters' lounge, WAAC mess, and a fire in the WAAC's mess. Tripoli, the sisters' mess; Kiwi Concert Party; aerial photo of No 3 NZ General Hospital at Bari, Italy. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in faded green paper cover, entitled "Photography" in black lettering; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1943

From: [Christmas cards sent during the Second World War, from soldiers and other servicemen. 1940-1945].

By: 3rd NZ General Hospital (Beirut, Lebanon)

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWII-1943-03

Description: A greeting card sent from the 3rd New Zealand General Hospital. It shows a tiki and red cross on the front cover, and, inside, a picture of the hospital, set up in a fort in the Middle East, with red crosses on the walls and an ambulance driving by. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on folded card, 88 x 137 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2005.

Date: 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

By: Anderson, Alfred Robert, 1917-1971

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-176

Description: Series of captioned photographs taken by A R Anderson. Include: Convoy near Acre in Palestine; cooking dinner on roadside in Palestine; fort at Suani Ben Adem which was used as part of 3 NZGH; visit of Swazi band and dancers to entertain patients at 3 NZGH; tent wards in plantation; WAAC Xmas dinner at 3 NZGH Beirut, Syria, Dec 1942; Ward B6 decorated for Christmas, Dec 1942; Square and clock tower in Tripoli, Syria; Sir James Grigg and Gen Sir Maitland Wilson on visit to 3 NZGH at Suani Ben Adem. Series of photographs taken at 3 NZGH, Helmieh - Operating theatre; X Ray Dept; patients receiving massage treatment; hut wards; Wardmaster in his office; Dispensary; staff at work in laboratory; inside the cookhouse; mess rooms for patients; Officers, sergeants and men's messes; Sisters' sitting room; WWSA tent; staff at work in the Hygiene Section workshop; staff at work in carpenter's shop; visit of Gen Sir C Auchinleck (Apr 1942). Funeral of WWSA Miss Anderson of Dunedin, Apr 1942; mule train in Syria; exterior of wards A & B at 3 NZGH, Beirut, Syria; general view of Beirut; rugby match (Jan 1943); Occupational Dept at 3 NZGH, Beirut; patient being admitted to 3 NZGH, Beirut (Jan 1943); military funeral at Beirut War Cemetery, Aug 1942; nurses of 3 NZGH playing basketball at Beirut (Feb 1943); Temple of Bacchus and remains of the cornice of Temple of Jupiter, Baalbeck, Syria; HMHS Llandovery Castle in Tripoli harbour, Tripolitania, Mar 1943; unit marching down to position on Tripoli-Suani road for visit of the King, Jun 1943. Series of photos taken at 3 NZGH, Suani Ben Adem, Aug 1943 - Tented wards; laboratory; soya stoves outside cookhouses; POWs cutting firewood; patient receiving treatment in saline bath; unit administration tents; one of the kitchens; operating theatre. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941 to 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

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-297

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and England during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include physical training at the School of Instruction, Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 1-2, 93); scenes with His Excellency the Governor-General of NZ, Sir Cyril Newall, visiting Samoa and Fiji in 1942 (p 2-7); New Zealand members of ski units including members of the Maori Battalion at the Ninth Army Ski School in Syria; NZEF and Red Cross distribution of flour to Syrian people; parade through Aleppo. Officers, nursing sisters and Lady Freyberg at Anzac Day service at Maadi Camp in 1942; the visit of the NZ High Commissioner to a "west coast port", William Jordan and officers of NZ ships; arrival of pilots and observers for the RAF; scenes with King George VI & Queen Elizabeth visiting RAF Bomber Command, and the King watching landing exercises in Scotland. New Zealanders after withdrawing from the Libyan engagement; engineers constructing roads, lines of communication and supply in Transjordan; working with Arabs, reconstructing ancient wells; NZers in Amman. Group of NZers at Rouen sent back to Germany when arrangement with German authorities for mutual repatriation of prisoners broke down; NZ medical personnel repatriated from Italy to the Middle East under the Geneva Convention (many named); the Duke of Gloucester visiting the NZ camp at Maadi; locomotives being unlaoded on lighters and NZ engineers in their living quarters on the lighters at a Syrian port. The Pacific War Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Entertainment and sport for NZ troops in the Middle East included cricket, racing, bathing in the Dead Sea, boxing and wrestling championships. Campaign against malaria, widening and deepening drains; participation at the Western desert battle front; Visit of a party of NZers to a bandit stronghold in Syra (p 62-64); Sergeant James Allen Ward's VC with illustrations (p 71-72); Winston Churchill visiting NZers in the Western Desert (p 77-80, 82); the Alamein front; the NZ General Hospital at Beirut in Syria housed in former French barracks (p 86-90). A studio party in New York for Unted Servicement; a New York Bond Party; and later, a group of NZers in New York. RNZAF training in Canada (group portrait); NZers in North Western Alaska, and a group of wireless operators in Canada. Recipients of awards (named above); Kiwi Concert Party. Pursuit of the Axis Forces and war material abandoned by Germans and Italians (p 104-125); advance to Tripoli (p 128-138). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

Date: 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

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1862-1922

Reference: PA1-q-289

Description: Official photographs from World War II, many of which have captions giving names, information about activities taking place, and places. Some of the names noted are listed above. The album opens with a number of reproductions of paintings by New Zealand war artist Peter McIntyre (10 paintings (p 1-4)), 1 of McIntyre sketching in the field (p 9), and 7 further paintings (p 16-17, p 91, p 109)). Pages 17-22 have scenes with His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand Sir Cyril Newall visiting Samoa and Fiji in 1942. Page 24-25 show trainees at the Ninth Army Ski School in Lebanon in 1942, some men chosen from the 28th New Zealand (Maori) Battalion, and some from the 22nd Battalion. Duties included reconnaissance, fighting patrols and rescue work for snow-bound troops. Different occasions are shown including an Anzac day parade and service on 25th April 1942, and a ceremonial parade in Aleppo on 30th April 1942; a group of New zealanders who were at Rouen ready for repatriation when arrangements with german authorities for the mutual repatriation of Prisoners of War broke down, all of whom were returned to Germany; groups of NZ medical personnel who were part of PoW protected personnel which took place between Italy and the Middle East Allie Forces (p 45-46); a group of Australians and New zealanders in the German prison camp Marlag & Milag Nord; a race meeting and sports activities in Transjordan, including races with 6 Arab horses and 6 donkeys which were loaned by the Arab Legion. A group of NZ soldiers visited the stonghold of a tribe of bandits in Syria (p 77-80); scenes in Crete "the price paid by German air invaders"; Winston Churchill being welcomed in the desert; scenes of nurses, convalescents, hospital wards around the 3rd New Zealand General Hospital in Beirut (p 102-106); recipients of recent awards, many not named (p 112-114); a group of NZ airmen who were survivors of a ship which was sunk en route to Britain; Kiwi Concert Party; and a sequence showing the pursuit by a New zealand convoy of the Axis Forces in the Western Desert during the early days of the November advance (p 126-137, showing equipment abandoned by the retreating forces including German special mobile anti-tank guns and trucks, but also the problems with landmines)l. The final views show the advance to Tripoli. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02626-F

Description: NZ soldiers and nursing sisters at 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. L to R: E S Bright (Auckland), Sister E M Somers Cocks (Christchurch), W Shaw (Palmerston North), L S Conaghan (Wanganui), Sister G Brandon (Wanganui). Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02628-F

Description: Patients holding grapes at 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-06805-F

Description: Captain J Peddie (Wellington), in foreground, and Sergeant M Flower in the Pathological Laboratory of the 3rd New Zealand General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. Special study is made of malaria, sandfly fever, dysentry etc. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02618-F

Description: Patients playing chess in 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. The hospital was formerly French barracks. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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: DA-02620B-F

Description: A NZ x-ray assistant, Alfred Robert Anderson, examines an x-ray plate at the 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War two. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by an official photographer. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative Processing information: Subject previously described as 'R Anderson'. Updated record with full name on 24 May 2017.

Date: [ca Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02623-F

Description: Patient, identified as W O Kent (Auckland), sits on fellow patient J Hannah's (New Plymouth) bed in 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. Both men were badly wounded. Photograph taken circa September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02622-F

Description: Sister M D Haskins (Dunedin) and F L Jones who was wounded near Matruh at the 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. Looking on is F A Martin (Christchurch) a VAD sergeant. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02621-F

Description: General view of the Indian Ward at the 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. Shows a NZ sister and an Indian assistant, as well as patients. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02627-F

Description: Patients buying grapes at 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02619-F

Description: General view of the interior of one of the wards in 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02624-F

Description: Convalescing patients in the grounds of 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. L to R: J A Horsfall (Palmerston North), A H Wakeford (Wellington), J L Sullivan (Taranaki All Black), W J Aldersley (Palmerston North). Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02625-F

Description: NZ soldier B R Fitzgibbon (Christchurch) and Sister J Hards (Wellington) outdoors at 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 7 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-06804-F

Description: General view of the guarded entrance to the 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. Photograph taken on 7 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 10 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02629-F

Description: Outside the sisters mess at 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. L to R, R M Johnston (Auckland), C Hay MacKenzie (Westport), E Walker (Christchurch), A I Murray (Timaru). Photograph taken on 10 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 10 Sep 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

By: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-02630-F

Description: Group of nursing sisters at 3rd NZ General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon, during World War II. L to R, Sisters K M Slye (Auck), U Goodwin (Cart), K R Shield (Auck), S Pemberton (Chch). Photograph taken on 10 September 1942 by M D Elias. Previously described as Beirut, Syria from the information on the file print, corrected January 2014 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative