Lieutenant Colonel with the 18th Regiment of Foot (Royal Irish Regiment). See Hart's Army List of 1870. Photographer. From 1868-1869 he was Major General James Harwood Rocke, Major and Commanding Officer of the 18th Regiment Irish, in South Australia.
Rocke, James Harwood, active 1864-1870
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Native bush near Auckland
Date: ca 1860s
From: Haines, Bernard Gilpin, b 1842 :Photographs compiled while on active service with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment during the New Zealand Wars
By: Rocke, James Harwood, active 1864-1870
Reference: PA1-f-027-05
Description: Native bush near Auckland, circa 1860s, photographed by Lieutenant Colonel James Harwood Rocke. Other Titles - Bush scene near Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Bush scene near Auckland Lieut Col Rocke 18th Rgt Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 21.8 x 17 cm, mounted on album page 37.8 x 26.6 cm
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Peter Moore Album 1
Date: ca 1860s
By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Rocke, James Harwood, active 1864-1870
Reference: PA1-o-346
Description: Chiefly photographs of Ireland and New Zealand (particularly Auckland). Appears to have been compiled by an Irish officer with the Imperial forces during the 1860s. Among the New Zealand views are photographs taken by John Kinder and Lieutenant-Colonel J H Rocke, 18th Royal Irish Regiment Photographs of people are not identified in the album, but have been identified by comparison with other photographs, and include Judge William Martin and his wife, and Governor Gore Browne and his family. Photographs by J H Rocke are apparently those of countryside around Auckland Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cloth bound album; 24.0 x 19.5 cm
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Native bush near Auckland
Date: ca 1860s
From: Haines, Bernard Gilpin, b 1842 :Photographs compiled while on active service with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment during the New Zealand Wars
By: Rocke, James Harwood, active 1864-1870
Reference: PA1-f-027-04
Description: Native bush and pond, near Auckland, circa 1860s, photographed by Lieutenant Colonel James Harwood Rocke. Man on left is possibly Rocke. Other Titles - Bush scene near Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Bush scene near Auckland Lieut Col Rocke 18th Rgt Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 21.5 x 16.4 cm, mounted on album page 37.8 x 26.6 cm
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Native bush, North Auckland
Date: ca 1860s
From: Haines, Bernard Gilpin, b 1842 :Photographs compiled while on active service with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment during the New Zealand Wars
By: Rocke, James Harwood, active 1864-1870
Reference: PA1-f-027-02
Description: Native bush with tree ferns, North Auckland, circa 1860s, photographed by Lieutenant Colonel James Harwood Rocke. Other Titles - Bush scene Nth Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Bush scene N Auckland by Lieut Col Rocke 18th R I R Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 15.9 x 20.2 cm, with rounded corners, mounted on album page 37.8 x 26.6 cm
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Photographer unknown :[New Zealand bush scene, 1868?]
Date: 1868
From: Artist and photographers unknown :[Watercolours of the Bay of Plenty and thermal regions, Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands, and Ireland; photographs of Dover, a Belgian monument, Ireland and New Zealand bush, 1866-1868]
By: Rocke, James Harwood, active 1864-1870
Reference: A-443-010-2
Description: Shows a relatively dense New Zealand bush scene. Tree ferns of varying heights feature predominantly, and are surrounded by other varieties of native bush. Photographic Archive curator suggests that this photograph is possibly the work of James Harwood Rocke, who was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 18th Regiment, and based in south Australia 1868-1869. He visited Auckland in about 1868. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 169 x 201 mm