Reconnaissance aircraft

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.

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-645-001/049

Description: 49 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. Quantity: 49 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: [between 1944-1946]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-03979-G

Description: Copy negative taken by Whites Aviation. Photographer of original unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: ¼ plate Glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [between 1939-1946]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-03737-G

Description: Copy negative taken by Whites Aviation. Photographer of original unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: ¼ plate Glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [between 1944-1946]

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-03736-G

Description: Copy negative taken by Whites Aviation. Photographer of original unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: ¼ plate Glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 5 Jul 1945

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-05178-G

Description: Copy negative taken by Whites Aviation. Photographer of original unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative ¼ plate 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 2001

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-002-018

Description: The question is put by Uncle Sam (representing the United States). He is up a ladder leaning over a fence in the moonlight with a camera with a huge telephoto lens around his neck and has been caught out as a peeping tom by a panda (the People's Republic of China). The panda, leaning out his window in his pyjamas, has caught Uncle Sam by the neck strap of his camera. An American spy plane had collided with a Chinese plane and had had to make a forced landing on China soil. To the great ire of the Americans, the Chinese refused to allow them to recover their plane and to give them inital access to its crew. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1915

From: Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen

Reference: PAColl-0914-1-28-1

Description: Crashed airplane being salvaged from the sea. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915 The aircraft is a Sopwith Admiralty Type 807, commonly called a Sopwith Folder as its wings could be folded back so that it could be stored on board warships such as the first Bristish aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal. Twelve of these aircraft were made in two batches numbered respectively 807-810 and 919-926, and the first were delivered in July 1914. The plane in this photograph was number 808 of the first batch. (Info from "Sopwith Aircraft; 1912-1920", H F King, Putnam, London, pp 72-73) Inscriptions: Verso - Salving 808 Sopwith. Lieut Bromet in desptch boat. He has just discovered the engine in the water held up by wire of rev indicator.; This machine fell 3,200 feet close to us caused through the propellar breaking & striking pilot on the head & stunned him. HTB. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: l Jan 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05008-F

Description: Captain G M H Aitchison (Ambleside, England) and a Flight Commander, Captain P H Henderson (Perthshire, Scotland) discussing a task given them by the New Zealand Artillery. RAF ultra light observation planes, flown by British Artillery officers, cooperate with the NZ Artillery on reconnaissance on the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken on 1 January 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: l Jan 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05009-F

Description: Captain G M H Aitchison (Ambleside, England) at the controls of his light aerial reconnaissance plane. These planes are used by the RAF in assisting the New Zealand Artillery on the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken on 1 January 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1915

From: Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen

Reference: PAColl-0914-1-30-1

Description: Two naval seaplanes parked on the deck of HMS Ark Royal. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915 Inscriptions: Verso - Short 136. Wight 172.; Taken on board the aerodrome ship whilst at Lemnos. HTB. The seaplanes are Wight Type A 1 Improved Navyplane, No 172 (left), and Short Type 135, No 136 (right). They are on the deck of the British Navy's first aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, which at the time was at Lemnos. (This photograph also appears in "The Wight Aircraft", Michael H Goodall, Gentry Books, London, p 37) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: l Jan 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05013-F

Description: Captain J S Rutherford (Stratford), Intelligence officer of the New Zealand Divisional Artillery, conferring with Captain A G Dick (Seven Oaks, Kent) who has just returned from a recce flight over the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken on 1 January 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1915

From: Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen

Reference: PAColl-0914-1-30-2

Description: Sopwith seaplane suspended above the sea The aircraft is a Sopwith Admiralty Type 807, commonly called a Sopwith Folder as its wings could be folded back for storage on board warships such as the first Bristish aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal. Twelve of these aircraft were made in two batches numbered respectively 807-810 and 919-926. The first were delivered in July 1914. The plane in this photograph was number 922 of the second batch. (Info from "Sopwith Aircraft; 1912-1920", H F King, Putnam, London, pp 72-73) Inscriptions: Verso - Sopwith 922. Lieut Douglas. P O Brady.; This machine is working with us & her average speed is 110 miles an hour Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: [ca 16 Sep 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-06658-F

Description: One of the observation aircraft that have played a big part in the 8th Army near Riccione, in Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 16 September 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Other - Names on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1915

From: Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen

Reference: PAColl-0914-1-29-2

Description: Seaplane hoisted above the sea from the deck of HMS Ark Royal. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915. The aircraft is Wight A 1 Improved Navyplane, No 172. Wight seaplanes were designed by J S White & Co Ltd for the British Navy. They were used for reconnaissance and bombing during the First World War. No 172 was equiped with radio, a Lewis gun and could carry two 100-lb bombs and three 20-lb bombs. The wings could be folded back so that it could be stored on board warships. (Info from "The Wight Aircraft", Michael H Goodall, Gentry Books, London, p 37) Inscriptions: Verso - Wight 172. Lieut Bromet releasing machine from crane. I have been in this seaplane when at Lemnos. HTB. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1915

From: Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen

Reference: PAColl-0914-1-28-2

Description: Crashed airplane salvaged from the sea. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915 Inscriptions: Verso - Lieut Whitehead. Sopwith 808.; The machine just after her terrific smash. HTB. The aircraft is a Sopwith Admiralty Type 807, commonly called a Sopwith Folder as its wings could be folded back so that it could be stored on board warships such as the first Bristish aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal. Twelve of these aircraft were made in two batches numbered respectively 807-810 and 919-926, and the first were delivered in July 1914. The plane in this photograph was number 808 of the first batch. (Info from "Sopwith Aircraft; 1912-1920", H F King, Putnam, London, pp 72-73) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: l Jan 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05010-F

Description: One of the RAF light reconnaissance aircraft which were used in cooperation with the New Zealand Artillery on the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken in the Orsonga area on 1 January 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1915

From: Paterson, E B :139 photographs relating to World War One experiences of Hugh Townshend Boscawen

Reference: PAColl-0914-1-29-1

Description: Seaplane hoisted above the sea from the deck of HMS Ark Royal. Photographed by an unknown photographer in 1915 The seaplane is Short Admiralty Type 135, No 136. In 1915 No 136 was one of the seaplanes on board HMS Ark Royal. This machine had folding wings so that it could be stored on warships. It also had radio, a Lewis gun and could carry two 100-lb, and three 20-lb bombs. (Info from "The Wight Aircraft", Michael H Goodall, Gentry Books, London, p 37) Source of descriptive information - inscription and researcher Inscriptions: Verso - Capt. Kilner. Short 136. This is the machine & pilot that did such great work at Cuxhaven. I met him some days ago. HTB Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

Date: 1915

From: Martin, W W :World War One albums of Mr Laurie C Mackie

Reference: PA1-o-308-23-4

Description: Bristol Scout aircraft of No 2 Wing, Royal Naval Air Service, photographed on Lemnos in 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign, probably by Laurie C Mackie. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - A Bristol Scout aircraft at Lemnos Island. A short run to Gallipoli. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 5.1 x 7.6 cm (visible image) mounted on album page

Date: l Jan 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-05012-F

Description: An RAF ultra light reconnaissance aircraft in flight over the New Zealand Sector of the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken on 1 January 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative