Donald, Haddon Vivian, 1917-2018

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

From: Welch, James Kenneth, 1914-1981 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1527

Description: Photographs showing voyage to war. Includes arrival at Scotland, military camp, canoeing on canals, portraits of soldiers, military practice and a shot down military plane. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 125 x 170 mm

Date: 8 Dec 2000

From: Second World War oral history project - Crete

By: Donald, Haddon Vivian, 1917-2018

Reference: OHInt-0729-05

Description: Haddon Vivian Donald born Masterton 1917. Gives some family background and mentions great grand father who was first white settler in Masterton 1847. Refers to Ernest Rutherford who went to primary school with mother. Recalls being a Cadet at Nelson College, joining Territorials in Masterton and gaining commission in 1939. Gives reasons for enlisting for World War II and describes process of enlistment. Recalls joining 22nd Battalion with rank of 2nd Lieutenant. Refers to Colonel Andrew VC, Battalion commander. Left Wellington on board the `Empress of Britain' and describes conditions on board ship, route to Britain via Cape Town, arrival in Scotland and train journey to Aldershot. Recalls winter in England, association with church at Hollingbourne, journey to the Middle East, arrival at Maadi Camp and journey from Egypt to Mt Olympus, Greece. Describes arrival of Germans, withdrawal from Mt Olympus, and physical shape of troops on arrival in Crete. Mentions John Ormond. Recalls digging slit trenches before German invasion. Explains system of communication, reasons why system broke down and methods used to get messages through after invasion. Describes in detail invasion on 20 May 1941. Refers to gallant act of soldier from 15 Platoon. Describes events on Maleme aerodrome, wounds received, journey back to Alexandria and reason for spending ten days in hospital. Mentions Beat[rice] Chapman. Describes morale after Crete. Continues to talk about involvememt in Battle of Alamein, injuries when bullet lodged in back, furlough leave and return to 22nd Battalion, being first troops into Trieste which he describes. Compares campaigns in Crete and Italy. Recalls being Lt-Colonel at end of war. Mentions membership of National Rifle Association of Great Britain. Mentions average number of Germans shot by members of sniper platoon in Crete. Describes life after the war, and briefly describes effect of war on health. Mentions burst ear drums, membership of RSA [Returned Services Association] and attendance at Anzac Day parades. Gives reason for not being a member of Crete Veterans' Association. Recalls year at Harvard Business School (1948), working in father's business and becoming MP [Member of Parliament] for Wairarapa 1963. Briefly continues about life as a politician. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Completed questionnaire attached to abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009443-009445 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 2.17 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3061, OHDL-001146. Search dates: 2000

Date: [ca 1944-1960], 1988

From: McLean, Terence Power (Sir), 1913-2004: Photographs

By: Heimbrod, George K, active 1930s

Reference: PAColl-10107-5

Description: Miscellaneous personal photographs collected by and relating to Terence Power McLean ca 1944-1960's. Photographs mainly taken by unidentified photographers. Contains some photographs of McLean's experience with the 22 Battalion in WWII, including a photo of a Cretian well with water raising machinery and a Virgin Mary Altar. Also some portraits of children, probably McLean's family, pictures of men playing golf (possibly visiting rugby players), an image of the yacht KZ1 (1988), a group portrait of people in costume [at a party?] and other miscellaneous shots. Identified photographers include G. K. Heimbrod. Identified persons include Lieutenant-Colonel Haddon Donald, Major Carson, British Lions players Tony O'Reilly and Alfred Dawson. Arrangement: Material came into library in disordered state. Library arranged into loose chronology Quantity: 23 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: 1944-1945

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-301

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in Italy 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. Officers and personnel of the 9th NZ Infantry Brigade and of the 6th NZ Infantry Brigade at Trieste; thanksgiving service on the occasion of the end of war in Europe, and presentation of awards by Lt-Gen Sir B C Freyberg. Group portraits of No 1 & No 2 Platoons of Mechanical Equipment Company of New Zealand Divisional Engineers; various sports and entertainments including a trotting meeting at Montebello, Trieste; swimming regatta; athletics; hurdles; yacht race; skiing and staying at the NZ Alpine leave centre at Madonna di Campiglio, in the Brenta di Dolomiti (Southern Dolomites); sports in Florence (Allied track and field championships); swimming championships at Rome; water polo; motor cycle speedway events and rugby. New Zealand staff at the NZ Forces Clubs in Bari, in Rome, in Florence and in Venice. A memorial visit to Crete by members of the NZ Division who had been in the Cretan campaign in 1941, as guests of honour at a luncheon given by the people of Galatas; visits to the old Head Quarters; and a memorial service at the military cemetery; other memorial services at the Sangro Military Cemetery and at the Cassino War Cemetery. New Zealand troops on leave in the United Kingdom, visiting Hampton Court, Victoria Barracks, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral. Scenes with Freyberg inspecting troops before they leave for New Zealand; also members of "Jay Force" during their training in the Florence area; an illuminated address presented to Lt-Gen Sir B C Freyberg by 28 Maori Battalion during his farewell visit to the Divisional Unit, (the address includes a wooden frame carved by Charles Iotua Tuarau); Freyberg saying farewell to nursing staff at the NZ General Hospital (Florence); married men of the Tenth Reinforcement at the NZ Advance Base awaiting transport home; group portrait of the staff of the NZ Army Post Office at Bari on the day the post office disbanded. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, darker blue corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

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

From: Second World War oral history project - Crete

By: Donald, Haddon Vivian, 1917-2018; Hill, Kim, 1955-

Reference: OHInt-0729-06

Description: Haddon Donald talks to Kim Hill on National Radio about his experiences in Crete during World War II Interviewer(s) - Kim Hill Recorded by - Megan Hutching Recorded off air Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-009446 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 10 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - no abstract(s) available.

Date: 2000

From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War

Reference: MS-Papers-7947-04

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1969

From: Holyoake, Keith Jacka (Sir), 1904-1983 : Political papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1814-471/2

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1990]-2002

From: Kennedy, Raymond George, 1914- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7471

Description: Comprises copies of correspondence relating to war reminiscences; article on Minqar Quaim breakout; food during the war; letter from Kennedy from the retirement home; accounts of the 1918 flu epidemic; clipping on feverfew; reminiscences, `I must lose myself in action in case I wither in despair' and `Night of passion' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1974

From: Cairns, Keith Raymond 1925-1987 : Research papers relating to the Wairarapa, particularly archaeology and Maori history

Reference: 88-070-17/04

Description: Contains newspaper clippings, notes and correspondence about the collection of a fund to purchase a portrait of Retimana Te Korou, and biographical notes about Te Korou Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 23 Oct 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-02698-F

Description: Portrait of Captain Haddon Vivian Donald, Military Cross, World War II. Taken at Maadi, Egypt, on 23 October 1942 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 14 March 1951]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/268/09-G

Description: H V Donald photographed circa 14 March 1951 by an Evening Post photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1943-1945

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-300

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in Italy during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named. Views of the No 1 New Zealand General Hospital at Molfetta; Prime Minister Peter Fraser visiting NZ troops in Italy (p 2-12, 18-19), including the occasion of his audience with the Pope at the Vatican and senior officers and chaplains after being received by the Pope at Vatican City; the chief prior of Abbey Monte Cassino returning to the ruins of the monastery (p 2). Views of a Divisional Flashspotting troop; a "jeep train" supplying men to forward areas, known as the "Ghost train" as it had to move in darkness; pursuit of Germans after the capture of Atima and Belmonte. The No 2 NZ Field Bakery in action; the No 2 NZ General Hospital at Caserta (p 10-12); the NZ Forestry Unit in Southern Italy Transport ship Gripsholm arriving in Algiers with repatriates from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other allies; swimming and boating sports at Arce; NZers on leave in Rome, Vatican City, St Peter's, Castel St Angelo, and the NZ Forces Club; a gymkhana, and wood chopping competition at Arce. NZ troops after the assault on Mount Lignano; the advance towards Florence; King George VI visiting the NZ Division during the advance to Florence; "Tuis" in Rome at John Keats House; a Regimental Aid post. Sound recording machines, helping locate enemy guns; clearing landmines; various armoured vehicles including German Tiger tanks, and other German Panzer tanks, Staghound armoured cars; M10 tank busters Members of the RNZNVR in the Mediterranean (p 50-51, 55); Italian partisans in Florence, and one view of Nikos Souris (worked with the escape system in Crete); New Zealanders arriving in Florence; New Zealand Forces Club in Florence. Weddings at the chapel at No 3 General Hosptial (Bari), and at All Saints Church in Rome; inspections by general Freyberg accompanied by senior Greek officers inspecting the 3rd Greek Brigade in Italy; Winston Churchill touring the 8th Army front. The RNZAF in Britain: fighter pilots of Hawker Tempest planes; pilots and navigators of a Mosquito squadron engaged in bombing targets behind German lines by night (British official photographs, p 60-63) Kiwi Concert Party entertaining children and adult refugees at a camp in Rome; a gala day held for Italian children by members of the No 21 NZ Battalion; the advance to Gambettola; troops on leave in Riccione; a donkey derby; advance through Faenza; scenes of Christmas celebrations in the No 3 NZ General Hospital and on the line in Italy. NZEF Middle East (p 104) the Honorable D G Sullivan visiting Maadi, NZEF Italy, Sullivan visiting the troops in Italy (p 107-110). A dance held at Senigallia as a farewell to members of Transport HQ returning to New Zealand under the replacement scheme; sporting activities including rugby, soccer and hockey; New Zealand High Commissioner to London visiting NZ troops and hospitals in italy; Sir Patrick Duff (British High Commissioner designate to NZ visiting Italy en route to NZ; Italian women partisans in Massa Lombarda; New Zealanders in Venice after having been liberated; a pontoon bridge over the River Po; meeting between General Freyberg and members of the Yugoslav Army; and NZ ex-prisoners of war at a NZ repatriation unit in Italy all of whom are named. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, darker blue corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm