Military training camps - New Zealand

Date: Between 1911 and 1912

From: Evans, Charles Hellier Davis, 1873-1956 :Photograph albums

By: Sorrell, Charles, 1855-1932

Reference: PA1-o-221

Description: Album created by Captain C Hellier Evans (Charles Hellier David Evans), commander of A Squadron, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles, in the Gisborne area. Numbers of group portraits of officers and non-commissioned officers give surnames with rank, and occasionally initials as well. The album opens with several views of Major General Godley inspecting troops, and then presenting medals to individual soldiers. Several photographs on page 7 show Gisborne celebrations in connection with the coronation of George V, June 1911. Various military activities are shown, at military camps (including two nurses in uniform), and the regimental training ground at Tutira. Other Titles - Capt. C. Hellier Evans. A Squadron, 9th Wellington E.C. M.R., Gisborne. No. 2 Other Titles - Captain Charles Hellier Evans. A Squadron, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles, Gisborne. No. 2 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown album, entitled `Capt. C. Hellier Evans. A Squadron E.C. M.R., Gisborne. no. 2'; 24.0 cm x 31.5 cm

Date: 2007

By: Paddison, Arthur Neville, 1920-

Reference: MS-Papers-8795

Description: Paddison's memoir recounts his experiences of training to be a soldier in the New Zealand Army. The recollection includes a very detailed description of all facets of training to be a gunner in the New Zealand Artillery. He recounts his enlistment with the Territorals, military life in the training camps (Mount Cook Barracks, Linton Military Camp, Trentham Military Camp, Waiouru Military Camp), artillery practice sessions at various locations including Foxton and Ashurst and his increased responsibilties as an instructor of cadets. There are many digital photographs included in the typescript depicting soldiers (also group photograph of the 2nd Field Regiment NZA taken at the Winter Show Buildings, September 1940), weapons and vehicles like the Marmon. The account concludes as Paddison prepares for depature with the 2nd NZEF, 8th Reinforcement. Source of title - Title transcribed from item 2nd Lieutenant Paddison joined the New Zealand Artillery (Territorials) at 19 years of age in 1939. Trained as a gunner he rose to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. In 1942, aged 21, he commenced active service with the 2nd NZEF, 8th Reinforcement. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with scanned photographs

Date: [Between 1908 and 1911]

From: Evans, Charles Hellier Davis, 1873-1956 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-220

Description: Photograph album created by Captain C Hellier Evans (Charles Hellier Davis Evans), commander of A Squadron, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles in the Gisborne area. Numbers of group portraits of officers and non-commissioned officers give surnames with rank, and occasionally initials as well. Various military activities are shown, particularly at training camps, with horse racing, rifle practice, horse parades, physical drills, and marching. Other Titles - Capt. C. Hellier Evans. A Squadron, 9th Wellington E.C. M.R., Gisborne. No. 1 Other Titles - Captain Charles Hellier Evans. A Squadron, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles, Gisborne. No. 1 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red album, entitled `Capt. C. Hellier Evans, A Squadron, 9th Wellington E.C. M.R., Gisborne. No. 1' in gold lettering; 23.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1939-1945

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

By: New Zealand. National Film Unit; Marriott, (Lieutenant), active 1943

Reference: PA1-q-292

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album contains photographs on pages 1-54 (Pages 55-149 are empty). Activities include training in building of fascines and revetments for protecting trench walls; barbed wire "concertina"; excavation of command posts (part of a defensive trench system); the use of a 2" mortar; anti-tank rifle instruction; instruction in identifying enemy weapons including grenades and land mines and use of an electric mine detector. The cookery wing in action in the open air; artillery school of instruction; signallers establishing communication & erecting a telegraph pole; use of a 25-pounder; bayonet practice; medical training including rescue of wounded, use of an improvised stretcher, improvised raft for a river crossing carrying the stretcher, transfer to an ambulance, and finally a view of an actual open-air operation. The arrival of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, shown with New Zealand dignitaries (p 18). Men and women who have returned on furlough parading through Wellington on their way to a luncheon given in their honour by the RSA (p 19-21, 38-40); the arrival of repatriated Prisoners of War being greeted by friends and family in Wellington (p 33-36) A huge crowd celebrating the victory over the Italians at Liberty Corner, on the intersection of Hunter Street, Featherston Street and Lambton Quay (Friday 3rd September 1943) Ceremonies at an undentified marae including Maori dance, haka, poi dances and speeches by military officers. Pages 28-30 show the visit of a British Military Mission to the Forest & Jungle Warfare Wing of the Army School of Instruction, with demonstrations of jungle training. Women are shown with views of the Women's Land Service (Land Army), and also as Post & Telegraph drivers collecting huge bags of mail from a ship. Infantry students at the Army School, Trentham are shown in a river crossing exercise near Foxton, building rafts big enough to carry people, vehicles and weaponry. Launching a fuel barge built at the Wellington Patent Company's shipyards at Evans Bay, where the ceremony was performed by Managing Director Mr Jamieson. Pages 49-53 show photographs of Polish refugee children arriving and settling into the refugee camp at Pahiatua. Pages 53 and 54 show the official opening of a new Model Kindergarten in Hospital Road, Newtown (Saturday 18th November, 1943), opened by the Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Also present were the Labour MP for Wellington South, Robert Mckeen and his wife Jessie Mckeen, Mrs J A Doctor (President of the Free Kindergarten Association), and Dr Clarence Beeby (Director of Education). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 438-598 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: [ca 1941-1945]

From: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1933

Description: Photograph album compiled by Robert Thomas Martin containing images of New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the Solomon Islands during military training and service in World War II. Some images likely taken by Martin. New Zealand images show training camps at Rotorua (1941), Papakura (1942), 1st Field Ambulance camp in Warkworth (Jun-Sep 1942), and Fencourt [Cambridge?] (1942). In addition to informal portraits featuring Martin, Colin Arroll, and other unidentified soldiers, there are images of tents, a route march, a hospital under construction and parked ambulances (at Warkworth), and a Bob Semple tank with soldiers and Martin and his sister Valerie posed in front (at Papakura). Identified groups include Warrant Officers and Sergeants in 1st Field Ambulance in Papakura, 7th Field Ambulance, and D Company. Also image of Martin walking down a street in uniform while on leave. Images from Rotorua also show Regent Theatre (exterior and courtyard), Post Office, Sanatorium building and grounds, St Faith’s Church (Ohinemutu), swimming scenes at the Blue Baths, and Maori children diving for pennies [at Whakarewarewa?]. A 1940 series of images at a house in [Auckland?] show Martin in uniform with various people including his Uncle Frank, Guy [?], and a number of young women [relatives, including his sister Valerie?]. Martin is also photographed with a dog [Collie?]. Images from service in New Caledonia, Jan-Aug 1943, feature group photographs of the B Company 7th New Zealand Field Ambulance at Nemeara and Nepoui Valley. Identified people in informal group and individual portraits at the Nemeara Camp are Doug Smith, Wally McKusker, Doug Smith, Stan Poomore, Shorty Luscombe, Jack Ireland, Allan Stewart, Bill Cullum, and Cliff Pinker. Nemeara Camp images also include a medical examination of an unidentified local man, local children and men, the cookhouse, tents, hospital “bure” [thatched hut], a combination water heater and incinerator, mess hut under construction, swimming area in river [including competition?], and Nemeara mission church (with Mt Boa in the background). Images from Bourail show the gendarmerie, Main Street, and a church. Also view of Nouméa Harbour Treasury Island images show scenic views, including the river mouth at Malsi and the northern tip of Mono Island. Solomon Islanders are photographed including local men trained to fight by 34th Battalion, A Company tent, vegetation, local church (following rebuild by 29th Battalion) and [another?] destroyed church, men packing up the QM [Quartermasters?] store, and group getting ready to play “Tennaquoits”. Identified men are Tom Murphy, Jock Plunkett, Fred Walker, and Martin. Some show men posing with “Jap Souvenirs” (including flag, swords, knife, and trumpet), sick and injured men at 7th Field Ambulance [MDS?] at Stirling and on stretchers being evacuated by barge. Images of military equipment and armaments include G pounder anti-tank gun, 50 mm Bofors Ack Ack gun, a jeep (being dug out of mud), beach landing craft, beach scene with men rolling drums [fuel?], LST being unloaded at Purple Beach (Stirling Island), ship ‘Tyrone’, and a boat described as a “Seaplane tender”. Arrangement: Donor identified item as "ITEM C Family photos and Pacific Islands". Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 115 silver gelatin photoprints. Physical Description: Black cardboard album bound with string, 20 x 23 cm

Date: 1917-1918 - 2017

By: McFadden, Janet, 1948-

Reference: ATL-Group-00256

Description: Collection comprised of photocopy of original World War One soldier's diary (1917-1918) by Neil McAra McCorkindale and typescript of original diary (2017) by Janet McFadden. Diary begins with description of army life at the training camp in Featherston January 1917; includes details of squad drills, rifle exercises and marching parades. On 2nd April 1917 McCorkindale leaves on the troopship `Corinthic' for Plymouth, England. Diary comments on shipboard life and voyage stopovers including calling into port at Sierra Leone. Also commemorates ANZAC Day aboard the vessel on 25 April. McCorkindale continues training in England at Sling Camp which includes the use of gas masks, bomb throwing, firing the Lewis gun, trench digging and bayonet practice in the Bull Ring. Left Folkstone for France on 8 July 1917, continued training with the unit then marched into Ypres, Belgium. Stayed for a short period at Brandhoek Camp. McCorkindale was serving with the Rifle Grenadiers, No 10 Platoon, C Company, 3rd Battalion. His job involved digging trenches and laying signal cable for the Passchendaele advance. During the battle of Passchendele on the 13th October 1917 McCorkindale was wounded by shelling from a German balloon. He was invalided back to London to recuperate and for further treatment. The diary details his recovery and a holiday to Scotland. In March 1918 he was reclassified to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade for active duty, diary ends. End pages includes personal names and miscellaneous notes. Transcript of original diary by Janet McFadden (2017). McFadden has also published a text on McCorkindale's diary: Mud and guts : 1917-18 World War I diary Neil McAra McCorkindale / compiled and edited by Janet McFadden. Neil McAra McCorkindale author; Janet McFadden 1948- editor Wellington, New Zealand : Manuka Creek Press, 2017 http://natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/NLNZ:NLNZ:NLNZ_ALMA21293433000002836 Janet McFadden is Neil McCorkindale's granddaughter. Corporal McCorkindale served with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in World War One. Involved in the Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium (October 1917). In 2017 McFadden edited a publication of her grandfather's diary, these papers are related to this project. Quantity: 2 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) and typed transcript

Date: 1941-1944

From: McKenzie, Gordon Melville 1898-1978 :Albums compiled while serving as chaplain of HMNZS Achilles and HMNZS Tamaki, 1939-1945

Reference: PA1-q-894

Description: Album compiled by Gordon McKenzie during his service as a chaplain at the naval training station HMNZS Tamaki during the 1939-1945 war. Includes photographs of the training base, visit of the Governor-General, confirmation candidates, Training Division regatta, and sports days. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca 1880s, 1910s-1920s

From: Starke, June, 1923-2006: Photographs

By: Herrmann, Richard, -1892

Reference: PAColl-7813-1

Description: Portraits of members of the Meek family, views of a training camp in 1912, military weapons, postcards from Europe including one written by a soldier in France in 1916, and scenic postcards of New Zealand. Quantity: 24 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1917-1918

From: Hurst, Percy Cecil, 1884-1960: Photographs and album relating to World War One

Reference: PAColl-10625

Description: Loose photographic prints collected by Percy Cecil Hurst during his service in World War One, 1917-1918. Photographer(s) unidentified. Prints include military portraits, images taken at camp in New Zealand, and one of Hurst's infant son Robert Hurst playing with a watering can. Identified are Lieutenant De Maus, Captain Anderson, Lieutenant Percy Hurst, and Chief Officer Jones. Hurst also likely appears in photographs pretending to ride a saw horse, posing with a bicycle, in a group photograph smoking a pipe (without a hat). He may be the lowest of three men who are popping their heads through a tent flap. Information regarding location and people supplied by donor. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin photoprints

Date: [1930-1940s?]

Reference: ATL-Group-00081

Description: Photographic collection, chiefly relating to scenes of military and family life taken between circa 1930 to 1940s by an unidentified photographer(s). Negatives include a child on a rocking horse; an infant sitting in a baby bathtub outside; men in mufti with rifles; two distant views of the Wellington Centennial Exhibition, one taken at night; and two of a man with a motorbike, in one he is fishing. Eleven images relate to unidentified military events in New Zealand including two young men in uniform, possibly for a military band; a group portrait of an air force band; army or cadet camps, possibly in Trentham and in Waiouru; young men in air force uniform in the snow; a group portrait of men in air force uniform in a park, and a small aircraft outside the hangar. Arrangement: Film negatives arranged at 1/4-125755-F to 1/4-125774-F Quantity: 20 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera 'Kodak' wallet for holding negatives. Physical Description: ¼ plate silver gelatin negatives, paper envelope (sewn) Provenance: Purchased from a deceased estate auction in Lower Hutt circa 2004.

Date: 2012

By: Cooke, Peter D F, 1958-

Reference: MS-Group-2232

Description: Completed questionaires about the experience of compulsory military training, gathered by Cook as part of his research for his book 'Fit to fight: Compulsory military training and national service in New Zealand, 1949-1972' (Auckland, NZ : David Ling Pub, 2013) The questionaires are in four parts: Army compulsory military training; Air Force CMT; Navy CMT; and the later National Military Service. Quantity: 20 folder(s). 0.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and photographs Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from there..

Date: 1939-1945

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-291

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. Views show the manufacture of various military weapons, machinery and vehicles and the men and women involved in the work. They include munitions (manufacture of hand grenades); Bren gun carriers, airframes, building navy trawlers and mine sweepers in Auckland; airplane construction at Rongotai, at the De Havilland Aircraft Factory; making caterpillar tracks; making sten guns; and constructing army huts. People from various military and civilian groups are shown working as fitters, flight riggers, flight mechanics; aircraft maintenance; welders, camouflage nets (made by Girl Guides). Activities include army exercises (p 106-110); river crossing exercises; preparation for a dawn departure of a New Zealand Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron; army training (p 76-97); and the New Zealand Air Training Corps for elementary instruction for youths aged 16 to 18 1/2. RNZAF training includes blind flying practice, Hawker Hind training planes, aircraft maintenance, flight mechanics, and Airspeed Oxford training planes. Other activities include the planting and growing of linen flax, used in the manufacture of planes, tires, gun covers and fighting equipment; agricultural and horticural work, including using bullock teams for breaking in new ground; army manouvres (in part in Franklin area, and in winter conditions in the South Island near the Southern Alps); territorial manoeuvres; coastal defence; Home Guard training; a remedial physical education training camp for recruits suffering from foot troubles, painful backs etc.; the making of a new raft designed in NZ which could be constructed in a few minutes and was easily transported; training despatch riders on motor bikes in the snow. Women, in different organisations including Women's National Service Corps, Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Lady Galway Guild, were engaged in driving and maintaining military vehicles; driving for Red Cross vehicles; digging trenches; on parade; as signallers; in clerical work; hospital duties; cooking and other branches of essential war work. Pages 63-75 show the arrival in New Zealand of the American forces; and pages 111-121 portray a visit to New Zealand of Australian and Netherlands personnel from the hospital ship Oranje when the NZ Government, as a mark of appreciation for their efforts in bringing Australian and New Zealand wounded troops, placed a special train at their disposal and took them to Chateau Tongariro for rest and relaxation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 4 Jul 2002 - 22 Mar 2011

By: Farrell, Peter, active 1984-2005; O'Dwyer, Noel (Captain), active 1955-1991; Pye, Leslie John, 1931-; Walker, William Greening, 1943-; Wightman, David Ross, 1929-

Reference: OHColl-1141

Description: Interviews with members of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (RNZAC) Association covering the post-WWII period, as a resource for a future history of the RNZAC. The interviewees are representatives from the units, organisations and formations of the RNZAC, who describe their early lives and education, experiences with vehicles and equipment, and experiences as troopers and as members of the RNZAC. Subjects covered include compulsory military training, army life, School of Armour, Territorial Force, New Zealand Scottish Regiment, training at Waikato, Waiouru, Trentham and Burnham, and nursing at Waiouru Hospital. Also described are J Force, K Force, V Force, and peace-keeping in India, Pakistan and the Middle East. Interviewees are WO2 Leonard Arthur Appleford, Maj Paul William Andrews Bevin, WO2 Murray Thomas Blackley, 2Lt Ian Bell Blair, Col Ian Moorcroft Bolton, Col James Brown, Lt Col Colin Charles Brown, Maj David John (Jack) Brunton, Cpl Albert Ronald (Blue) Burrell, WO2 Peter Alfred Callahan, Sgt Leslie McGregor Cantwell, Cpl Ian Gerald Cawte, Col Brian David Chippindale, WO1 Christopher Andrew Cooper, Sgt Pedro Leonardo de Treend, WO2 Barry William Downs, Brig Ian James Duthie, Maj Cyril Patrick Dyson, Capt Robert William Fox, Maj Richard Sibbald Fox, S Sgt Arthur George Frederikson, Col William Alexander French, Brig John Harold Gray, Capt William Ballantine Grupen, WO1 Michael Joseph Gullery with his wife, Ethne Gullery, Col Harold Thomas Harris, WO2 Paul Winston Hawke, Lt Teresa Holder (nee Mortimer), Maj David Stewart Johns, Sgt Bruce Martin Keddie, Lt & QM Athol John King, Maj Ian Richard Lambeth, Maj John James Lane, Lt & QM Ronald Charles Lee, Maj Colin Geddes McKay, WO1 Morris Raymond Meha, Maj Gen Bruce Meldrum, Capt Noel Peter O'Dwyer, Capt Lawrence Arthur Comyn Pigou, Maj Leslie John Pye, Maj Harry Russell, Lt Col Neal Conelly Schofield, Capt John Hannay Scott, Maj Desmond Dynes Sharp, Lt Col William Alexander Simpson, Col Robert Knight Storey, WO1 William Greening Walker, Maj David Ross Wightman, WO1 Robert George Williams Accompanying material - project documentation, biographical data. Some interviews include obituaries, articles, reports and service records Interviewer(s) - David John (Jack) Brunton Interviewer(s) - Peter Russell Farrell Interviewer(s) - Harold Thomas Harris Interviewer(s) - Ronald Charles Lee Interviewer(s) - Trevor McComish Interviewer(s) - Chris Wotton Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-023894 - OHC-023973 Abstracts: OHA-7837 - OHA-7885 Quantity: 44 C60 cassette(s). 36 C90 cassette(s). 55 printed abstract(s). 55 interview(s). 92.45 Hours and minutes Duration. 1 digital sound recording(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete some are very brief. Some copies of photos depicting army life are included with 10 of the interviews Search dates: 2002 - 2011 Processing information: Interviews not yet described

Date: [ca 11 Feb 1942]

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Stephenson, George, active 1942

Reference: PAColl-8983-20

Description: Maori soldiers (probably from the 28th Battalion) erecting a marquee at a military training camp, probably at, or near Kaikohe, in the Far North district. Photograph taken circa 11 February 1942, by George Stephenson. Publication note - Published in the New Zealand free lance (Wellington, NZ, 17 June 1942) Source of descriptive information - Notes, and stamp, on back of file print, and caption in New Zealand free lance (Wellington, NZ, 17 June 1942) Inscriptions: Verso - N I Military Camp WWII P17.6.42 11/2/42; Verso - [stamped in ink] Photograph by George Stephenson Kaikohe Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 13.7 x 20.3 cm

Date: ca1880

From: Swainson, Jane :Photographs of military forces in Taranaki, Nelson, Hokitika, Parihaka and Rotorua.

Reference: PA1-q-707-41

Description: Shows layout of the tents, troops in formation, horses and onlookers. Probably Nelson-Marlborough Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2007

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0004339

Description: Shows Peter Williams QC in a long priestly robe. He is placing his hand on the head of Maori activist, Tame Iti and says "I feel your trauma, my son'. Tame Iti holds a rifle in one hand and is standing in front of a wooden gate with skulls on the gateposts. Refers to the arrest of Tame Iti and 16 others under the Firearms and Suppression of Terrorism Acts. Tame Iti was thought to have a Tuhoe military training camp in the Ureweras. It transpired that terrorism charges were all dropped because the legislation was flawed. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: ca1880

From: Swainson, Jane :Photographs of military forces in Taranaki, Nelson, Hokitika, Parihaka and Rotorua.

Reference: PA1-q-707-39

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: between 1899-1902

From: Ross, Malcolm 1862-1930 :Photographs by Malcolm Ross of New Zealanders in the Great War, Maori, mountaineering, New Zealand scenery, etc

Reference: 1/1-006669-G

Description: Scene at a military training camp for soldiers going to the South African War. Location, and soldiers, unidentified. Photograph taken by Malcolm Ross between 1899-1902. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative