World War, 1939-1945 - Military facilities

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: PAColl-4161-01-112

Description: Large number of unsorted photographs, mostly captioned. Includes: Visit of NZ Defence Minister, Hon F Jones. Shows him talking to L/Bdr Robert Abbot (Opotiki); Genr Joseph Larrington (Napier); Bdr Lem Wakelin (Whakatane); Gnr Maurice Gillard (Whakatane); Bdr Frank Jury (Auckland); Sgt Alex Ferguson (Te Awamutu), and Bdr Basil Fenton (Takapuna). Watching unloading operations on the beach: Major General Rush B Lincoln; Col W W Dove; Col C W Salmon; Brig C J Duff; Col J I Brooke; Lt Col H W D Blake; Major General Barrowclough; Major G W Waddell, Major H G Guttensohn. Amphibious training 14th Brigade at Ducos Peninsula, Noumea Harbour, Jul 1943. View of Base Training Camp Bourail; camp of Avenger & Dauntless servicing units; Base Ordnance Depot; Armistice Day parade (NZ WAACs in march past, inspection of troops, salute being taken by Rear-Admiral Shaf-Froth, Lt Gen Vandergrift, Major Gen R B Lincoln, General W W Dove, and Governor Laigret), 11 Nov 1943; embarkation practice; cook house ovens, 37 NZ Bn, Taom. NZEFIP camp life; Bourail Beach Club; view of 4 Gen Hospital from hill; troops on parade & Pipe Band leading the parade; nurses' quarters at 4 NZ Gen Hospital, Boguen; 22 NZ Field Ambulance at Tinyep; 30 NZ Bn HQ at Koumac; training exercise (Mortar platoon of 29 NZ Battalion up Mt Tonta); paintings by Lt A B Barns-Graham - Town of Bourail, cookhouse at 35 Bn, camp site near Bouloupari with Pique Ouiliambou in distance, and a view of French gendarmarie from `Signals' hill; general view of the high-power transmitting station `Gracefield' in Bourail. Various photographs of sporting and recreational activies including swimming sports, boxing matches, life saving and group photo of lifeguards, rugby matches (exhibition), woodchopping at Sports Meeting, horse races, entertainers and outdoor theatre. The Vicarage, HQ NZEF IP in Bourail; NZ Governor General with physical training class at 2 NZ Convalescent Depot; group photo of staff at Base Pay Office, Bourail; general view of Base Training Depot; traffic control post; mess bures at Noumea Transit Camp; Northern Racing Club at Taom; WAACs on parade in Noumea on the occasion of the return of French volunteers from Egypt. Cpt A McCulloch with Governor General after being invested with military medal (taken at 4th Gen Hospital, Dumbea), 1943; His Excellency with Major J Willis and Sister Cargo, 4th Gen Hospital, Boguen Valley; D Support Coy 29 Inf Bn climbing Mt Tonta, May 1943; NZ force training for amphibious operations; embarking on a landing craft at Sandy Beach; various views of the WAACs and Bourail Club (group photos, inside staff quarters, kitchen, doing laundry, at servery, swimming, etc) Base Pay Office and bure, Tene Valley; Battalion Athletic Team, Apr 1942; thatching a mess hut in Works Services Unit area; 28 Bn rugby team; group photos of A, B, C & D companys; photo of Col Henri Montchamp, Gen Barrowclough & Lt R E Moore; Squat-pot factory (concrete plant at Le Clerc's farm); pipe bands; Robbie's Hall, 29th MT copany recreational bure. Emaciated Japanese prisoner taken at Guadalcanal; 28 Bn Rugby Team; Bourail Club during construction; thatching a mess hut in Works Services Unit area; Battalion Athletic Team, Apr 1942; jungle warfare US troops on Guadalcanal; NZ soldiers making a mock assault on beach; Occupational Therapy Dept; Brigadier Goss with officers; practice exercises at Taom; Guard of Honour in Bourail for Major Gen Rush B Lincoln; unloading operations at Nepoui & view of wharf and harbour; interior of chapel in Bourail township; embarking at Guadalcanal, Aug 1943 (loading barges at Michel Dock). Quantity: 177 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1890-1990]

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-5268-2-6

Date: 1941-1943

From: Quartermain family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3870-1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1939-1941

By: Westbrook, John Egerton Jury, 1915?-1941

Reference: MS-Papers-1407

Description: Letters from Westbrook to his family after enlistment in the 18th Rifle Battalion; describes training at Ngaruawahia and Papakura; his journey on the troopship `Orion' (1940); fighting in Egypt, Greece, Crete (Apr-Jun 1941). Other items include: telegrams, photographs, troop newsheet, typescript description of embarkation Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 4 folder(s) (142 pieces). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter and photographs

Date: 1913-1946

By: Fraser family

Reference: MS-Papers-2269

Description: Papers comprise letters and postcards sent by John Fraser to his mother, Mrs Iona Fraser and his sister Elsie Halse; letters from Charles Allan Fraser to his aunt, Elsie Halse and cousin Hugh Halse; and, a diary of Mrs Iona Fraser kept during 1916 relating to correspondence she has with her son, John. The letters describe wartime and other experiences. Also included is Corporal Fraser's answer script of 17 Sep 1913 re reconnaissance problems for N.C.O.'s. 6th Mounted Rifles Source of title - Supplied title John Fraser served in the Wellington Mounted Rifles, 1914-1918, emigrated to Canada in 1922 and served in the Royal Canadian Artillery. Charles Allan Fraser served in the Pacific Campaign, 1942-1945. Quantity: 9 folder(s). 0.09 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 10 December 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile..

Date: 1940-1942

By: Crump, Spencely Noel Stanley, 1916-1995

Reference: MS-Papers-6905

Description: The letters contain an account of Crump's service during the Second World War. He describes his training at Ngaruawahia Camp in Sep-Dec 1939, the trip to Egypt on the `Orion' and further training at Maadi Camp. He also provides accounts of action against German forces in Greece, Crete and North Africa as well as his invaliding back to New Zealand in May 1942. Source of title - Supplied title Crump served as a lieutenant and later a captain with 18 Battalion, 2nd NZEF Quantity: 18 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts

Date: 1935-1964

By: Lovell-Smith, Peter Cornford, 1916-1987

Reference: MS-Group-1500

Description: The collection comprises the diary of his life as an itinerant labourer in Northland and the Bay of Plenty 1935-1936; and diaries of his military career with the 4th Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, in Ngarawahia and Egypt, leading to his court-martial, imprisonment and discharge. The letters, mainly to his parents in Christchurch, cover his military service in Egypt during World War II, and then his career as a showman in New Zealand and Australia 1954-1964. Source of title - Supplied Peter Lovell-Smith during the depression worked as an itinerant agricultural labourer, before finding work in fairgrounds. After serving in Egypt during World War II, he changed his name and set up an advertising agency before returning to the fairgrounds of New Zealand and Australia as a showman and sideshow operator. Quantity: 3 volume(s). 16 folder(s). 0.50 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, T Lovell-Smith, 2000 and 2006 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts and Archives Section in two seperate lots in 2000 and 2006. Material from the 2006 accession transferred to Photographic Archive and and Ephemera from Manuscripts and Archives Section. Photographs held in the Photographic Archive under the reference number PA-Coll-8912 - To Ephemera Collection - NSW lottery ytickets - To Photographic Archive - loose photographs.

Date: 1914-1916

By: Lawson, Alan Wallace, 1893-1961

Reference: MS-Papers-1450

Description: Mainly newspaper clippings and photographs. Cover training in Auckland, embarkation and voyage, Egypt, the Gallipoli campaign and return of the wounded Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 volume(s) (Scrapbook). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs and postcards Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Manuscripts; material transferred to Photographic Archive (PA1-o-1312) - To Photographic Archive - 1 photograph album.

Date: 1939 - 1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Snowden, James Robert, 1904-1982; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-012

Description: Photographs of recruitment and enlistment, soldiers in military training camps at Papakura (1939-1940) and Burnham (1940) and soldiers in Rarotonga and Egypt, taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of the Maori Battalion and General Freyberg. Photographers include B Snowden, A W Powell, George Weigel and S C Smith. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1928-1941

By: Fell, Roderick Buchanan, 1910-1941

Reference: MS-Papers-1575

Description: Comprises letters from his family on trip to Europe (1928); letters to family from camp at Trentham, on voyage to England and camp there for some months. Includes newspaper clippings and photos. Source of title - Supplied Fell fought in the Greek campaign and was killed at Crete in May 1941 Quantity: 2 folder(s) (56 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1940

Reference: PAColl-5759

Description: Formal group of soldiers wearing sola topees photographed in front of a tent, Maadi Camp, Cairo, Egypt. All soldiers in this photograph have written their names, numbers and army division on the back of the photograph. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 10 Apr 1995

From: History of the Army in New Zealand during World War II

By: Ireland, Frank Graham, 1919-2016

Reference: OHInt-0571/19

Description: Frank Graham Ireland born Kohimaramara 1919. Recalls volunteering for Territorial Force before World War II and being attached to Field Regiment 60 pdrs, 18th Battalion, later changed to AA Unit. Mentions being commissioned in 1941 and being posted as instructor to School of Artillery in Karitane Home, Wellington and later instructor at Hororata School of Artillery near Addington. Talks about attitude of RSA towards soldiers who didn't serve overseas. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Dick Linnell Venue - 105 Hutchinsons Road Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008045 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 44 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2206.

Date: 20 Oct 1991

From: Sound recordings about Ngati Poneke

By: Edwards, Mihipeka Anne, 1918-2008; Grace, Patricia Frances, 1937-; Dennis, Jonathan Spencer, 1953-2002; Ramsden, Irihapeti Merenia, 1946-2003

Reference: OHInt-0600-01

Description: Mihipeka Edwards was born in Maketu in 1918. Talks about her childhood in the bush, and later in Manakau with her grandmother. Describes work in the 1930s during the Depression, in Otaki, Palmerston North and Petone. Talks about Ngati Poneke involvement and its Paramount Theatre club rooms. Comments on Ngati Poneke's music and dances, and lessons on social graces. Compares Maori youth then and now, and mentions club mentors Lady Pomare, Uncle Fred Katene and Kingi Tahiwi. Describes the club as a salvation to young Maori, its immaculateness and the privilege of membership. Talks about pretending to be Pakeha to get work, and discrimination when seeking accommodation leading to inventing the name 'Anne Davis'. Describes poor working conditions at the woollen mill during World War II, making army uniform material for the war effort. Mentions that young women were sent to work in Wellington factories such as Bonds. Talks about putting detonators in bombs and hand granades for Ford. Talks about the Turveys at Hongoeka, living as a Pakeha for thirty years, and keeping her Pakeha and club life separate. Refers to her Pakeha forebears, including Sir William Fitzherbet. Comments on Maori dialects and iwi communication styles. Mentions current work as Family Planning Association kaumatua, and her values concerning wairua and children. Talks about her autobiographical book 'Mihipeka'. Mentions issues concerning publishing whakapapa and the importance of karakia. Other - Her autobiography 'Mihipeka : early years' / Mihi Edwards. Auckland, N.Z. Penguin, 1990. Interviewer(s) - Patricia Grace Interviewer(s) - Jonathan Dennis Interviewer(s) - Irihapeti Ramsden Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-10527-8 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA 3644; partial digital transcript at MSDL-0153. Search dates: 1937 - 1948

Date: ca 1880s-1945

By: Stout, Robert (Dr), 1882-1959

Reference: PAColl-4678

Description: Premises of the legal firm Sievewright, Stout and Co shared with W C McNee, land valuators, at 123 Princes Street, Dunedin; a group of 4 officers, one of whom is in the Women's Army Corps, on board a ship; and a military camp in a desert region. Photographer(s) unknown. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/4-009912 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative and two silver gelatin prints

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1941-1945

By: Kennedy, John William Alexander, 1911-2006

Reference: MS-Papers-1449

Description: Covers camp at Papakura, the voyage to Egypt, experiences as a gunner with 4th Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and Italy. Information on living conditions, fighting, recreation. Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts

Date: 1941-1945

By: Cowie, Gordon Rae, 1896-1984

Reference: PAColl-0325

Description: Photographs of plays and musical festivals put on at Oflag VII B prison of war camp in Germany with men playing male and female roles. The plays were: Post Mortem in 1943 (names given: Woodley, Jumbo Burrows, Malcolm Fry, Bob Armstrong, Quartermaine, N Jardine-Paterson); Case of the Frightened Lady in 1943; Dossing Dulcie, a medieval Christmas pantomime in 1943 (additional names: A Barradale-Smith, Don Olliver, Lutner, Stan Nolan (NZ), J Long, G Powell; Gaslight in 1943; French without Tears in 1944; I Killed the Count in 1944; and Hamlet (Michael Goodliffe as Hamlet who went on to act with the BBC). There was also a musical festival in 1944 in which the men took part in a full choir and orchestra and in 1945 in which New Zealand troops dressed as Maori (names given: Ready, Herewinie and Bennet). Also included are a photograph of a Christmas 1944 greetings card drawn by a cartoonist calling himself Blow (possibly as a pun on Low) in which a soldier is knitting and the wool is forming the words "this year next year sometime; a Christmas 1941 greetings card by A A West from Oflag VII C showing life in the camp; soldiers at Aldershot in 1941 the names given being Duff, Freyburg, Williams, Hill, Lowndes, Colonel Fraser and Captain Thornton; and a boxing match, one of the participants being Milner, the son of a Waitaki headmaster. A number of the photographs had been sent as postcards to Cowie's wife in Lower Hutt though with no message other than sender. The photographs are all stamped Oflag VII B gepruft (examined). Quantity: 96 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: Probably part of collection donated to Manuscripts and Archives MS-Papers-2285..

Date: 1943-1946

By: O'Dowd, Margaret, active 1943-1946

Reference: fMS-Papers-9525

Description: Scrapbook kept by Peggy O'Dowd while serving with WAAC at Trentham Military Camp, Egypt, Rome, Italy, on leave in Britain and later back in Auckland, New Zealand. Newspaper clippings, typescripts of poems, both original and copies, letters, sketches, programmes, invitation cards, photographs, RSA badges and other items. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript, printed matter, sketches, photos Transfers: Three photographs transferred to the Photograph Collection - To Photographic Archive - 3 photos.

Date: 1940-1950

By: Morrison, John Craig, 1918-1944

Reference: MS-Group-1302

Description: Journal and letters describing voyage from NZ, training in England, Trinidad and Scotland, 1940-1941, service in Fleet Air Arm, Malta, 1941-1942. Newspaper clippings and detailed descriptions of operations in Malta. Papers relating to later service in Pacific Quantity: 5 folder(s) (61 pieces). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescript and printed matter Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - Maps - To Photographic Archive - At PA Series 14:25 (PAColl-0922).

Date: ca 1939 - 1940, 1950

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Crago, Eric William, 1904-1992; Kingsford, Alfred Reginald Bellingham, 1891-1987; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Snowden, James Robert, 1904-1982; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-011

Description: Photographs of soldiers in military training camps at Papakura (1939), Trentham (1939), Waiouru (1940) and the Naval Training Station at Motuihe Island, Hauraki Gulf (1950), taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Also photographs of crew members of the `Achilles' (1939-1940). Photographers include George Weigel, S C Smith, A R Kingsford and B Snowden. Quantity: 82 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints