Battle casualties - New Zealand

Date: 1864

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-027

Description: View of two fenced graves in the foreground, a blockhouse and the Sugarloaf Islands at New Plymouth in the background. The graves are those of Captain William Lloyd, of 57th Regt, killed April 1864, and of Andrew Balfour Duncan, an Ensign Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook ] 1864-1865. p. 27 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 195 x 173 mm

Date: 1907-1965

From: Luckens, Kathleen Muriel, 1878-1971: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12602-2

Description: Folder comprising papers relating to Kathleen Luckens' singing and teaching career, and some family papers. Includes newspaper clippings; programmes and leaflets for Luckens' singing recitals in New Zealand and overseas, some of which are undated; the will of Luckens' aunt, Adeline Talitha Stamper; and a letter informing Luckens and family of the death of her brother in World War One. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1863

Reference: MapColl-832.12hkm/1863/Acc.1736

Description: Military-styled map showing Auckland, Hauraki Gulf, south to the Waikato River to Rangiriri Pa during the New Zealand wars of 1863. Shows battle sites and documents scenes of the war, such as 'Koheroa Block - battle of 17th July', 'Shepherds Bush' - ('escorts attacked' changed to annotation 'marytrs', 'Bald Hills - Colonial Troops under Lieut Lusk repulse 200 Maoris', 'Potauas Pa' corrected to 'Tuakau's Pa. Includes several fountain ink and pencil annotations, additions and corrections. Several annotations are difficult to decifer. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on card, scale indeterminable, 27 x 22 cm.

Date: 1944

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WII-Italy-1944-02

Description: An arrangement of text on both sides of a small flier. It begins by praising the New Zealanders for being needed "when the going becomes rough", as at Greece, Crete, El Alamein, Tobruk and Ain el Gazala. Then it recalls Cassino where "such an alarming number of brave New Zealanders threw away their lives". It warns that now, as the New Zealand troops approach Faenza, "every yard towards that town must be paid for with the life blood of hundreds of New Zealanders ... This cursed Italian soil must be fertilized with the precious blood of New Zealand Youth ... For New Zealand it is a pathetic case of all give and no take!". The New Zealand Army 2nd Division succeeded in capturing Faenza on 14 December. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of newsprint sheet, 205 x 75 mm.

Date: 2002

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0002384

Description: Two old men sit at a table in the RSA bar having a beer. One comments to the other that if it hadn't been for war the population of New Zealand would have reached four million years ago. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014958

Description: The cartoon shows Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully reading a newspaper report that says 'NZ soldier killed in Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan'. A paper dart made of newsprint flies through one of McCully's ears and out of the other; it shows text reading 'McCully confident on Afghan stability goal especially in Bamiyan'. Refers to the recent statement by Murray McCully that 'Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan where New Zealand troops have been working since 2003 will be ready to stand on its own before the 2014 deadline set by the troubled country's President, Hamid Karzai.' On 4th August the Defence Force announced that a New Zealand soldier, Lieutenant Timothy O'Donnell' was killed and two others injured in an attack on a routine patrol in Afghanistan. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).