Military supplies
[Creator unknown] :[World War II map folder belonging to Lieutenant Colonel Baker, West...
Date: 1939 - 1944
From: Baker, Frederick (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1908-1958 :Maps related to the North African Campaign, World War, 1939-1945
By: Baker, Frederick, 1908-1958; Baker, Edna Mavis, 1909-1987; Baker, Francis Gordon Frederick, active 1989
Reference: MapColl-f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39541
Description: This World War II map folder housed two transparent overlays numbered MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39539 which accompanies the El Hammam map, sheet 88/42., and a second transparent overlay numbered MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39540 which accompanies the map of El Alamein, sheet 5N. A map for El Daba and one of El Daba - El Alamein were folded to be carried in this folder Title assigned by cataloguer See record for transparent overlays at MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39539;39540 See record for El Hammam map at MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39524 See record for El Alamein map at MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39527 See record for El Daba - El Alamein map at MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39523 See record for El Daba map at MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39534 Accompanied by a canvas and leather combined message case and map bag. See MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39542 Lieutenant Frederick Baker was Commander of the 28th Battalion (Maori Battalion) when engaged in active service in North Africa Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) folder with set of chinagraph pencils. Physical Description: Cardboard map folder, wooden spine, metal hinges, bulldog clip, 39.8 x 30.5 cm. + 1 set of chinagraph pencils in leather case affixed to folder Provenance: Owned by Frederick Baker and donated by Gordon Baker, November 1989 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - from MS-Group-0079. Deed of gift at 10/11 dated 22 Nov 1989.
World War II Official album. Pacific, 453-827
Date: 1943-1944
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: Barns-Graham, Allan Barclay, 1906-2006
Reference: PA1-q-303
Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Pacific theatre during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Amongst the official NZ photographs there are a few from the official British war photographs. Signals personnel train at the New Zealand School of Signals in New Caledonia; New Zealanders construct roads on Vella Lavella; the Post office at Vella Lavella; the boot repair section; arrival of Xmas mail in New Caledonia. Works services engaged in construction of the NZ General Hospital No 4; hospital wards; wounded and sick soldiers with nursing staff; and convalescents; Xmas dinner at the Artillery Training Dept; New Year function at the No 4 General Hospital (Boguen Detachment); an ice cream plant amenity provided by the NZ National Patriotic Fund Board. Field maintenance camp in the Solomons. Various sporting activities at a number of sites in the Pacific including boxing championships, race meetings, aquatic sports carnival on Vella Lavella including a Xmas-New Year treasure hunt; native canoes; cricket; rugby games and team portraits; New Year sports meetings; road race; swimming carnival and basketball. Group portraits of officers and staff at the New Zealand Base Reception Depot; the Base Ordnance Dept.; Wharf operating Unit; WAAC personnel at the NZ Convalescent Depot; presentation of awards by H E Barrowclough. Embarkation of NZ troops for a commando raid on Green Islands (known as the Green Island Campaign and as the Nissan Campaign); troops boarding a destroyer by means of nets on the side; soldiers wounded in the raid; men camouflaged with blackened faces; LSTs (Tank Landing Ships); unloading heavy vehicles and equipment form LSTs; fresh water being brought ashore from an LST; LCI (Landing Craft for Infantry) amphibious ships. Parade of various NZ troops welcoming "Fighting French" volunteers home from North Africa; a NZ casualty clearing station at Guadalcanal. Activities of NZ troops at Nissan Island; capture of Japanese antitank guns, army radio sets and medical equipment; group portraits of various personnel on Nissan Island. Dr W W Hallright with assistants giving medical treatment to Nissan Island natives prior to their being evacuated to Guadalcanal, and also giving medical treatment for Pinipel natives. Scenes on Treasury Island include native islanders thatching a roof for a new church at Falamai built by NZ soldiers in memory of NZ and American soldiers, and presented to the nation to replace their church which had been destroyed by fire in the Treasury Islands campaignl; the cemetery at Falamai; a church service at the open air "St James' Theatre"; yacht races; a barbershop. On Nissan Island the No 2 Platoon of a Field Co. engineers constructing Halas Pier and Salipal Pier; a sawmill operated by Field Park Sawmill section; Field Ambulance laboratory; malarial control unit; group portraits of various sections; wood chopping competitions. In New Caledonia there are many scenes of the Kalavere Hospital and the 2nd NZ Convalescent Depot; the opening of the new Kiwi Club built by NZ work services personnel who built it from prefabricated sections made in NZ, with representatives from the NZ National Patriotic Fund Board attending; a dance at the club; dance band; and the Moindah Racing Club meeting. On Mono Island a naval control tower; and Saveke Bridge built by NZ engineers. On Stirling Island scenes of an antitank battery; army and navy personnel meet on Treasury Island; Anzac Day parade in Bourail Camp (New Caeldonia); scenes of members of the Fijian Defence Force with New Zealanders in Bouganville; a native church at the Allied Cemetery in Guadalcanal. Views of the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Pacific showing crew members; the boiler room; engine room; gun crew practice; and depth charge drill. Black and white reproductions of 5 paintings by 3rd NZ Division war artist Lt Allan Barns-Graham: The town of Bourail; a bridge designed and built by NZ engineers designed to carry the heaviest loads; a sketch of a fox-hole near Island Command on Vella Lavella; caped men returning from an engagement on Nissan Island; and the landing at Pokonian Plantation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, darker blue corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm
World War II Official album. 1227-1668
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: PA1-q-296
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. Includes photographs of New Zealand fighter and bomber pilots serving with the Royal Air Force, and several British Official photographs relating to New Zealand fighter pilot with the RAF, James Allen Ward, who was awarded the Victoria Cross. Most individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include a visit by NZ soldiers to stables run by the Egyptian Government at Heliopolis; a NZ military band on tour in Palestine as part of a recruiting campaign; the arrival of the first party of Women's War Service Auxiliary in Egypt, and scenes of their life in the Welfare Section and at the New Zealand Forces Club (p 7, p 146-149); and RNZAF trainees at the Air Observer School, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. Life, military training and manouevres in the Western desert; ordnance workshops; the advance in the Western Desert; a NZ medical unit, a mobile surgical unit; hospital scenes (p 100, 103-105, 111). Sporting and entertainments include a wood-chopping "Axemen's Carnival" in South England; rugby matches in the Western Desert (p 29, 37-38, 82-83, 85, 93, 101-103, 107, 109); swimming (probably at Baggush; p 38-40, 44); and Christmas celebrations in the desert, including the Kiwi Concert Party (p 122-129); and a view of the YMCA Hostle at Alexandria. Inspection of NZ reinforcements in Egypt by William J Jordan (NZ High Commissioner in London); General Auchinleck presenting decorations to NZ soldiers, and reviewing NZ troops on the eve of the Libyan Campaign (p 49-57, 111-115); the Western Desert Battle, NZers bringing in German Prisoners of War; German General von Ravenstein captured by NZ troops, and scenes of various captured German vehicles, gas masks, a Nazi whip, and weapons; the Libyan advance (p 63-72); and the Railway Construction Unit in the Western Desert. Scenes of a New Zealand fighter squadron in Malaya (p 80-81, 87-89). NZers in Tobruk (p 96-99); one view of NZers at a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany (Stalag VI B) taken by Lieutenant Rangi (p 108); NZers arriving back at Base Camp after 5 weeks of imprisonment at Bardia, some of whom are named (p 117-121); four NZ soldiers who walked from Benghazi to west of Gazala (listed above); manouevres after the Libyan Campaign. Presentation of decorations by General Freyberg to members of the 2nd NZEF in hospital; views of a NZ Spitfire Squadron operating with the RAF Fighter Command, the planes subscribed for by the people of NZ (p 138-141); reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 133-138). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 1227-1668. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm
Photographer unknown: Miscellaneous World War One Collection
Date: 1914-1918
Reference: PAColl-6602
Description: Copy negatives of images in other colletions and images used in newsapers. Photographer(s) unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-016347 to 016368 and 018066 Quantity: 22 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives
"Military (Esp[ecially] White forces)" subject file
Date: [1967?-1984?]
From: HART Aotearoa: Collection
By: Ellison, Anthony, 1966-
Reference: MS-Papers-12693-12
Description: Comprises clippings related to the publishing of 'Amandla' and the subject file "Military (Esp[ecially] White forces)" and South Africa. Also includes clippings of published cartoons, and photographic prints of anti-apartheid activists. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Material arrived at Library in an accordion file and within section "Mc". Material arranged by Halt All Racist Tours in to a subject file labelled "Military (Esp. White forces)". Quantity: 1 folder(s) 15 pieces.
"Education" subject file
Date: 2013-2019
From: HART Aotearoa: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12693-13
Description: Comprises material related to the publication 'Amandla' and the subject title "Education". Folder contains magazine and newspaper clippings relating to education and militarization in South Africa and anti-apartheid protests in New Zealand. Also includes one sheet of stickers promoting consumer boycotts in New Zealand. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Material arrived at Library in an accordion file and within section "NO". Material arranged by Halt All Racist Tours in to a subject file labelled "Education". Quantity: 1 folder(s) 70 pieces. Transfers: Separated material and fMS-Papers-12693-6..
Prints of Wellington Region, Sydney, and Tokaanu
Date: [ca 1960s] - 1988 - [ca 2004-2008]
From: Cleveland, Francis Leslie, 1921-2014: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10645-04
Description: Prints of Wellington Region, Shannon, Sydney, and Tokaanu, taken by Les Cleveland in circa 1960s, 1988, and circa 2004-2008. Contains both black and white and colour prints developed by Wellington Photographic Supplies in seven separate photo wallets. Prints include: - Icebreaker Clothing window display, carved wooden figures in Te Rauparaha Park, Porirua, and an unidentified family group in a Petone park. - Shannon Post Office building, teddy bear displays [Newtown?], and Newtown streets scenes including C.O. Products on Adelaide Road. Also an unidentified man turning wooden legs on a lathe. - An arborist felling a tree in Wellington and graffiti, museums, and street scenes in Sydney, - Tokaanu scenes including the Post and Telegraph Office, Lake Taupō, and carved figures and houses. - Whanganui River jet boat trip and Mount Ruapehu ski party portraits with Mary Cleveland and [Turners?]. - United States of America military scenes (equipment and displays) at the Aberdeen Proving Ground and family photographs including Mary Cleveland, possibly Don Bryant, and two boys [Cleveland children?]. Mary Cleveland is also photographed in the spring gardens at Bethesda, Maryland. - Sydney scenes, including Domain, graffiti, and a graveyard. Also an unidentified mother and infant. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 69 b&w original photographic print(s). 74 colour original photographic print(s). 7 item(s) of photographic ephemera original print wallets. Physical Description: Photographic prints and print wallets Transfers: See 35mm-107489 to 107533 for negatives originally stored with these prints.. Processing information: Negatives originally stored with prints have been separated to facilitate appropriate storage.
[Baker, Frederick (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1908-1958] :[Map overlays from the World War II...
Date: 1939 - 1944
From: Baker, Frederick (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1908-1958 :Maps related to the North African Campaign, World War, 1939-1945
By: Baker, Frederick, 1908-1958; Baker, Edna Mavis, 1909-1987; Baker, Francis Gordon Frederick, active 1989
Reference: MapColl-f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39539;39540
Description: The transparent overlay numbered MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39539 accompanies the El Hammam map, sheet 88/42, and details the military manoeuvres in 1942 to the east of El Alamein. Includes grid references, abbreviated names and numbers of Armoured Divisions. A track called Sydney Road is named from which routes to the front with the names of Sun, Moon, Star, Bottle, Boat, Hat run parallel to the coast. The transparent overlay numbered MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39540 accompanies the El Alamein, sheet 5N and details the military manoeuvres in 1942 to the west of El Alamein. Includes grid references, abbreviated names of Companies, Battalions, Artillery, Armoured Divisions, Infantry Regiments and South African Corps. Includes references to PZ, Kiel, Trittorio and Trento. Title assigned by cataloguer See record for El Hammam map at MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39524 See record for El Alamein map at MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39527 See record for the World War II map folder at MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39541 Accompanied by a canvas and leather combined message case and map bag. See MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39542 Lieutenant Frederick Baker was Commander of the 28th Battalion (Maori Battalion) when engaged in active service in North Africa Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s) transparent overlays. Physical Description: Chinagraph pencil on plastic, coloured, scales not given, 38 x 29.5 cm. and smaller Provenance: Owned by Frederick Baker and donated by Gordon Baker, November 1989 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - from MS-Group-0079. Deed of gift at 10/11 dated 22 Nov 1989.
Tremain, Garrick 1941- :Cartoons published in Otago Daily Times, 27 August to 1 October...
Date: 2001
By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)
Reference: H-659-001/030
Description: Suggested increases in Health Taxes Modern Oxymorons (dry wine, rap music, coalition partner, criminal justice, working party, military intelligence) National Party seeks to purge weak and non-performing caucus members An Australian Aborigine points out the irony of Mr Howard's reasons for keeping asylum seekers out of Australia. Helen Clark's hesitation in launching the Kiwi Bank A barfly draws a parallel to his fear of going home with the boat-people seeking refugee status Comment on the new Australian anthem - being surrounded not by sea but by army inflatables...to keep out asylum seekers Jim Anderton supported by Jim Bolger walks the tightrope of getting the Kiwi Bank off the ground, flanked by scepticism and credibility Comment on unnecessary military hardware Jim Bolger's political swerving toward the left over his involvement in the Kiwi Bank noted. An Afghanistan refugee wearing a plane costume seeks asylum, citing the support Australia gave to the Air NZ/Ansett rescue package. Comment on the Australian public's lack of compassion toward the plight of the asylum seekers An Air NZ hostess points out to two pilots that Air NZ Board members are on board, identified with Mickey Mouse hats on. The Statue of Liberty holds her head in pain as smoke from the World Trade Centre twin towers drifts by. Air NZ Hostess points out to public that their life jackets, "muggins the tax payer" is under their seats. Air NZ Pilots note that extra seats have been strapped to the plans wing for Air NZ Board members to keep them away from taxpayers. President George W Bush appoints himself as sheriff to hunt down an indescript wanted person. Aussie barflys brag about selling the airline Ansett to NZ when it was already in a bad way. NZ Defence Force complain that they don't have any spare military equipment to lend to America. Helen Clark offers President Bush a 13-strong anti-aircraft squad in the form of the Air NZ Board. President Bush unconvincingly tries to reassure the American people they have identified Bin Laden as the target and they know where to find him. Air NZ quality control has fallen short. American navy invades the Middle East creating a new type of boat-people in the world Comment on the media packaging and Americanisation of the war against terrorism targeted at Osama Bin Laden The decline in public confidence of Air NZ shares. Comment that Helen Clark may seem more attractive if she was prevented from speaking. George W Bush seeks advice from his daddy, former President Bush. Air NZ flight operations are paralysed by goverment imposed "due diligence" during the public bail-out of the company. Enthusiasm expressed by those running for local body council positions and the public reaction to the them. Quantity: 30 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size
[Creator unknown] :[World War II message case and map bag belonging to Lieutenant Colon...
Date: 1939 - 1944
From: Baker, Frederick (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1908-1958 :Maps related to the North African Campaign, World War, 1939-1945
By: Baker, Frederick, 1908-1958; Baker, Edna Mavis, 1909-1987; Baker, Francis Gordon Frederick, active 1989
Reference: MapColl-f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39542
Description: This World War II message case contains a printed pad of message forms with a set of pencils. Includes two map pockets, one with transparent cover. Includes two scale indicators, one hand made, housed in a pocket. Lieutenant Frederick Baker was Commander of the 28th Battalion (Maori Battalion) when engaged in active service in North Africa Title assigned by cataloguer Accompanied by a World War II map folder. See MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39541 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) bag and message case. Physical Description: Canvas and leather message case and map bag, 33 x 28 cm. + 1 set of chinagraph pencils in leather case affixed to folder + 1 pad of message forms + 2 scale indicators Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - from MS-Group-0079. Deed of gift at 10/11 dated 22 Nov 1989.
World War II Official album. 2115-2555
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
Reference: PA1-q-298
Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in North Africa and the Pacific during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many of the group portraits are fully named in the album, many of whom are not listed above. Scenes include various views of the Kiwi Concert Party (with a named group portrait) on tour and in action, in Syria, Alexandria, Tripoli & Malta (p 1-5, 42, 137-138); New Zealanders in the RAF at Middle-Eastern stations (p 6-7, 19-23); casualties and medical officers from the El Alamein battle at a NZ military hospital, including a view of twin brothers E R & E O Riley who painted a mural while convalescing (p 8-9, 23); a group of NZ merchant seamen visited the 2nd NZEF base at Maadi with one of the soldiers at the base (A Currie, E Warner, D Duff (all from Lyttelton) and S Rogers from Wellington), with soldier W E M Cornish (also from Lyttelton). Lieutenant-General Montgomery inspecting troops and presenting awards (p 10-180 and Monty in the desert (p 63); from the Azizia region to Tripoli (p 24-36) including stacks of German bombs abandoned near Azizia, troops on leave in Tripoli, Monty visits, parades, scenes with Winston Churchill and Bernard Montgomery; inspection of troops and awards presented by General Freyberg (p 68-72, 75-76). The Libyan battle and advance to Benghazi; Xmas scenes at Maadi Camp (p 40-41), at the Helwan Hospital (p 53-54) & at Sirte (p 55-56); scenes of flooding in the desert; light naval craft in the harbour of a Western Desert port. Nursing sisters in the Western desert (p 45-49); infantry troops taking an Italian fort "Forte Giudice[?]" (p 50-51). Visit of the NZ Minister of Defence (Hon Frederick Jones (p 52-53, 84-85, 94-97, 125-127); presentation of 2 ambulances by the Hugh Baird family (Hastings) and the Sutherland Ross family (Dunedin). Clearing mines (p57-59); Divisional Signals in the desert (p 60-61); photographs taken on a German camera captured in the Sidi Barrani area (p 64-66); various sporting events including rugby championships in Tripoli (p 67-68) & Alexandria (p 72-74), hockey, tennis (p 149), swimming (p 149), and athletics in Cairo (p 127-129). An ambulance train, diesel drawn train of ambulance carriages operated by NZ engineers (p 79); NZ Spitfire fighters operating from Britain (Fl/Lt Pattison, Squad. Leader R J C Grant (DFC, DFM) & Fl/Lt Baker (DFC)); South Island airmen making a broadcast to NZ from the studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Studios in Halifax. Final phase of fighting in North Africa (p 89-93) and the surrender by General Messe, the German Chief of Staff. Scenes of the "First New Zealand Mule Pack Company" (p 129-131) for transporting ammunition and suppliesl in Tunisia; the marriage of Brigadier Kenneth MacCormick to NZ WAAC Joan Stewart Fenwick at Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings and portraits by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 100-105, 113-114), including members of the Long Range desert Group, Benghazi, Siwa, Monty, Norman Johnston (NZ Broadcasting Unit) and entry into Tripoli. NZers at Stalag 18A Germany (photo taken by A "Carl" Carlisle); passing through Gabes & Sousse; arrival of men in NZ on home leave from Egypt (p 111-113), and office scenes showing the ballot for home leave (p 139-140); British and NZ forces repatriated from Italy on a hospital ship to Alexandria (p 115-116) and a British Embassy garden party for the troops held in the British Embassy grounds in Cairo (p 121-122, 131). Captured German weapons; the end of the North African Campaign; NZers in Britain; NZ prisoners in an Italian prison camp (photo taken by one who was repatriated (L P Halle from Wanganui); celebration of Empire Day in Cairo; command performance by unites of the Allied Forces for the King of Egypt; a group at Medinine; arrival back at Base Camp of the NZ Division after 2000 mile journey from near Tunis back to Maadi after continuous campaigning for nearly a year. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 2115-2555. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm.
Mules carrying water to the trenches, Gallipoli, Turkey
Date: 1915
From: Denniston, George Gordon, 1885-1958 :Photograph albums relating to World War I including the Gallipoli campaign
Reference: PA1-o-863-02-1
Description: Mules carrying water to the trenches being led through open country, Gallipoli, Turkey. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Mules bringing water to the trenches Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
World War II Official album. 1669-2114
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
"Repression/Chains/Prisons" subject file
Date: [1967-1984?]
From: HART Aotearoa: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12693-11
Description: Comprises material related to the publication 'Amandla' and the subject "Repression/Chains/Prisons". Folder contains magazine and newspaper clippings relating to apartheid, incarceration and militarization in South Africa. Title taken from item. Arrangement: Material arrived at Library in an accordion file and within section "M". Material arranged by Halt All Racist Tours in to a subject file labelled "Repression/Chains/Prisons". Quantity: 1 folder(s) 38 pieces. Transfers: Separated contact sheet at Library reference PAColl-10802. - Separated poster at fMS-Papers-12693-5.. Processing information: Materials separated for reasons of preservation and storage.
[Author unknown] :Le char leger Schofield. Chars, vehicules chenille et semi-chenilles....
Date: 1939 - 1943
Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WII-2002-01
Description: Information about the Schofield military tank designed in NZ around 1940; an excerpt from a French publication). It gives the dimensions and other specifications of the tank, the history of its design, and its sad end (triste fin) Date of publication estimated from notation at lower right of verso: 30_046_02 Other Titles - The Schofield light tank. Tanks, vehicles with caterpillar wheels Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on looseleaf page, 283 x 220 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, in December 2014.
[Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Sketches of military equipment? 1955-1956]
Date: 1955 - 1956
From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]
Reference: B-125-106-2
Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 372 x 270 mm
Moorhead, Murray, 1934- :Murphy's law - No backpack will ever be made that is big enoug...
Date: 1953 - 1967
From: Moorhead, Murray, 1934- :[9 original cartoons about life in the army from 1953 to 1967]
Reference: A-431-001
Description: A New Zealand soldier in the bush struggles to pack all his gear into his backpack. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Murray Moorhead Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings 210 x 145 mm
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :No more cut-price military equipment for New Zealand -...
Date: 1987
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
Reference: B-136-686
Description: Shows a corridor outside the door of the Minister of Defence. Through the door can be seen the minister behind a desk which bears a sign saying 'For permission to visit military establishments apply here'. In the corridor outside the office stand three military officials with a document which says President Reagan has decided that New Zealand will recieve no more cut-price military equipment. An official from the office tells them that the minister says that they will have to pay more now that New Zealand has GST. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone on thin card, 320 x 480 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
[Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Sketches of military equipment? 1955-1956]
From: [Mitchell, Victor Leonard William] 1925-1980 :[Studies for the Lower Hutt War Memorial Library murals. 1955-1956]
Reference: B-125-106-1
Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 372 x 270 mm
Group of Kiwis rest at Hove Supply Dump, Cassino area, Italy - Photograph taken by Geor...
Date: [ca 29 Apr 1944]
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: Bull, George Robert, 1910-1996
Reference: DA-05610-F
Description: A group of Kiwi soldiers rest during the day at Hove Dump, where all supplies are packed to be taken forward at night to New Zealand troops in the Cassino area, Italy, during World War II. Photographed circa 29 April 1944 by George Robert Bull. Other - Names on file print Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative