Mono Island

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: PA1-q-303

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Pacific theatre during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Amongst the official NZ photographs there are a few from the official British war photographs. Signals personnel train at the New Zealand School of Signals in New Caledonia; New Zealanders construct roads on Vella Lavella; the Post office at Vella Lavella; the boot repair section; arrival of Xmas mail in New Caledonia. Works services engaged in construction of the NZ General Hospital No 4; hospital wards; wounded and sick soldiers with nursing staff; and convalescents; Xmas dinner at the Artillery Training Dept; New Year function at the No 4 General Hospital (Boguen Detachment); an ice cream plant amenity provided by the NZ National Patriotic Fund Board. Field maintenance camp in the Solomons. Various sporting activities at a number of sites in the Pacific including boxing championships, race meetings, aquatic sports carnival on Vella Lavella including a Xmas-New Year treasure hunt; native canoes; cricket; rugby games and team portraits; New Year sports meetings; road race; swimming carnival and basketball. Group portraits of officers and staff at the New Zealand Base Reception Depot; the Base Ordnance Dept.; Wharf operating Unit; WAAC personnel at the NZ Convalescent Depot; presentation of awards by H E Barrowclough. Embarkation of NZ troops for a commando raid on Green Islands (known as the Green Island Campaign and as the Nissan Campaign); troops boarding a destroyer by means of nets on the side; soldiers wounded in the raid; men camouflaged with blackened faces; LSTs (Tank Landing Ships); unloading heavy vehicles and equipment form LSTs; fresh water being brought ashore from an LST; LCI (Landing Craft for Infantry) amphibious ships. Parade of various NZ troops welcoming "Fighting French" volunteers home from North Africa; a NZ casualty clearing station at Guadalcanal. Activities of NZ troops at Nissan Island; capture of Japanese antitank guns, army radio sets and medical equipment; group portraits of various personnel on Nissan Island. Dr W W Hallright with assistants giving medical treatment to Nissan Island natives prior to their being evacuated to Guadalcanal, and also giving medical treatment for Pinipel natives. Scenes on Treasury Island include native islanders thatching a roof for a new church at Falamai built by NZ soldiers in memory of NZ and American soldiers, and presented to the nation to replace their church which had been destroyed by fire in the Treasury Islands campaignl; the cemetery at Falamai; a church service at the open air "St James' Theatre"; yacht races; a barbershop. On Nissan Island the No 2 Platoon of a Field Co. engineers constructing Halas Pier and Salipal Pier; a sawmill operated by Field Park Sawmill section; Field Ambulance laboratory; malarial control unit; group portraits of various sections; wood chopping competitions. In New Caledonia there are many scenes of the Kalavere Hospital and the 2nd NZ Convalescent Depot; the opening of the new Kiwi Club built by NZ work services personnel who built it from prefabricated sections made in NZ, with representatives from the NZ National Patriotic Fund Board attending; a dance at the club; dance band; and the Moindah Racing Club meeting. On Mono Island a naval control tower; and Saveke Bridge built by NZ engineers. On Stirling Island scenes of an antitank battery; army and navy personnel meet on Treasury Island; Anzac Day parade in Bourail Camp (New Caeldonia); scenes of members of the Fijian Defence Force with New Zealanders in Bouganville; a native church at the Allied Cemetery in Guadalcanal. Views of the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Pacific showing crew members; the boiler room; engine room; gun crew practice; and depth charge drill. Black and white reproductions of 5 paintings by 3rd NZ Division war artist Lt Allan Barns-Graham: The town of Bourail; a bridge designed and built by NZ engineers designed to carry the heaviest loads; a sketch of a fox-hole near Island Command on Vella Lavella; caped men returning from an engagement on Nissan Island; and the landing at Pokonian Plantation. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, darker blue corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

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

Reference: PA1-q-302

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Pacific theatre during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Many scenes show NZers in training exercises in New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, including Bren carriers crossing rivers on raft & trestles erected by military engineers; signals; road construction; thatching and constructing buildings (the Works Construction Unit); amphibious training from invasion barges; unloading and landing supplies; transporting guns and equipment; bridge building; digging fox holes and camping in the jungle; jungle warfare; maintaining wireless communication; organising camouflage; repairing damaged weapons; use of local canoes for transportation; ordnance workshops; and weapon training. Many scenes show parades, and inspections, including the King's Birthday parade in New Caledonia; a church parade; the Hon Mr F Jones visiting NZ troops; visit of Hon W Perry; visit of General Freyberg; visit of Admiral Halsey (US); and visit of the Governor of New Caledonia. Sporting activities, including individual players and group portraits of various teams of rugby players, soccer teams, hockey teams, swimming teams and a carnival, boat races, athletics, jockeys and horse racing, wrestling and boxing; surf clubs including the Engineers' team, Infantry No 2 team, and the Signals' team. Daily scenes including food preparation and coking; an anti-mosquito campaign; a leave centre for pacific troops; a dance sponsored by the American Red Crosss Service Club, and a celebration of New Zealand Day at the club; casting votes for NZ elections and a visit of scrutineers overseeing the voting; NZEF Base Repertory Players and the Kiwi Concert Party; a Base Camp reception at the hospital in New Caledonia; a garden party held by the Officers' School; Xmas parcels for NZ troops in the advanced Pacific Base. Images linked with medical care in New Caledonia, Guadalcanal and Treasury Islands include hospitals; medical personnel including dental surgeons, opticians and nurses; convalescent depot; and evacuation and transportation of the sick and wounded; and scenes of funeral services and graves of NZ soldiers in the Solomon Islands. Transportation of equipment and troops loading and embarking for the north from New Caledonia; landing craft; Liberty ships; New Zealanders in Guadalcanal. The NZ Brigade arriving in Guadalcanal, and the move from Guadalcanal to Vella Lavella on board L.S.Ts (Landing ship, tank); climbing up nets on the side of transports; bulldozer drawing heavy vehicles and equipment from the L.S.T.; New Zealand soldiers with Fijian commandoes; use of outrigger canoes; capture of a Japanese armed coastal barge, a Japanese supply boat and camp equipment left by retreating Japanese. Treasury Islands campaign in which a small group of NZ worked with native guides; two native chiefs who were extremely helpful; a NZ camp at Malsi on Mono Island; Falamai Village; water collection at Saveke River on Mono Island; tree cutting to provide wood for pump bases and flooring; unloading drums of petrol; NZ troops consolidate on Treasury Islands. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1940-1945

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: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-202

Description: Large number of captioned photos of Russell Clark's war paintings done in Pacific. Amongst the paintings are portraits of Squadron Leader J Scott (No 6 Squadron); Flight Lt D Beauchamp (No 6 Squadron) Scenes painted on New Caledonia, at Bougainville, and Solomon Islands Quantity: 62 b&w original photographic print(s).

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-116

Description: Most photographs have captions. Include several of dress rehearsal for Pacific landing showing NZ forces training for amphibious operations. Filling bags with clay on Vella Lavella (Sgt F R Palliser-Smith, Driver W Tippins, Driver L Marshall), 1943; NZ soldiers on their bunks aboard a troop transport (Driver L Wilson, Driver D E Klenere, Pte W J Doherty, Pte D Hodgkinson); NZ Brigade arriving at Guadalcanal; US marines unloading supplies at Guadalcanal; US planes bombing Buka airfield, Nov 1943; US Navy medical officer studying blood specimen from a malaria patient on Guadalcanal; NZ troops playing Chinese Checkers while relaxing during an exercise on a transport ship; L/Cpl W Brown, Spr E S Smith filling cans during Treasury Islands campaign. Getting ashore at Mele Beach (New Hebrides); Col M A Edson & Col W J Whaling, commander and executive officer of 5th US Marines; group photo of 8th Bde HQ staff, Treasury Islands (staff named on back); church, outdoor thetare and yachts at Falamai, Mono Island; Lautoka Express (CSR Free train); Fijian family group; line-up of Japanese captives at Guadalcanal; approaching Treasury Islands. Disembarking and unloading at Guadalcanal; loading tanks at Kukum Beach; 14th Bde landing at Guadalcanal; 36th Bn camp at Stirling Island; unloading at Mono Island; crossing Lunga River during manoeuvres; jungle exercise; troops at Guadalcanal before sailing for Vella Lavella; building church at Falamai; gunners pulling a gun ashore at Efate, 1943; 3rd Div training exercises at Mele Beach; men of 36 NZ Bn on USS `President Jackson'; wounded Fijian soldier carried through jungle for medical attention on Bougainville; NZ officers of 1st Battalion of Fiji Infantry examining a Japanese Zero plane shot down on Vila airstrip during attack on Kolombangara Island, Oct 1943. Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall inspecting NZ troops on Treasury Islands; line-up of tanks prior to inspection by G-G; aerial view of Stirling Island. Quantity: 79 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Feb 1997

By: Lysaght, Matthew J, active 2007

Reference: MS-Papers-8701

Description: An account of the army service of Andrew Lysaght, father of Matt Lysaght Also an account of Matt and Linda Lysaght's trip with Andrew Lysaght to the Pacific in 1996 to view the sites of his active service. Illustrated with photographs. Andrew Lysaght served as a gunner in D Troop, 50th Battery 38 Field Regiment, 8 Brigade 2NZEF IP. He left New Zealand for Noumea, New Caledonia in June 1943 and was dispatched to Guadalcanal in September. He took part in the fighting to clear Mono Island of Japanese forces in October and was stationed on nearby Sterling Island until April 1944 when it was decided to disband 2NZEF IP. In June 1944 he returned to New Zealand where he remained for the remainder of World War Two. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs (photocopy)

Date: 1943, ca 1980

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

Reference: MS-Papers-11977-07

Description: Translation of a captured Japanese diary describing events during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Treasury Islands archipelago. Translation typed by Robert Martin and sent to the Returned Services Association for publication. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 26 Jun 2000

From: Pacific War Stories oral history project

By: Dunlop, Robert Gordon, 1920-2010

Reference: OHInt-0921-01

Description: Interview with Robert (Bob) Gordon Dunlop, born in Hawera in 1920. Talks about his family's background in Scotland and New Zealand. Comments on his father serving in the mounted rifles in Egypt and the south of France during World War I. Talks about the hardships growing up on a dairy farm in the 1920s, living in a two-bedroom house with a family of nine and milking cows in the early morning. Discusses food, clothing, family holidays, haymaking and his schooling. Comments on Maori land issues, politics and the Depression. Refers to working for stock and station agents after leaving school, first as an office boy, then as an auctioneer's clerk and later a junior agent with a car. Talks about Hawera Aerodrome being built on part of his grandfather's farm. Recalls hearing about war being declared in Europe but not joining the army until he was 21. Talks about being assigned to serve in the Pacific after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour, and being sent to Fiji. Comments on doing construction work there, and later being sent to Norfolk Island. Refers to having Jack Marshall as Company commander. Talks about going to New Caledonia and then to Guadalcanal on American destroyers, and the devastation they found at Lunga Beach. Describes the taking of Mono Island by New Zealand troops, being in the first lot ashore, and some New Zealanders being killed by American shells. Refers to their 1914 Enfield rifles, dealing with fear and stress, and how officers dealt with the situation. Comments on the attitudes of veterans from Europe to Pacific theatre veterans after the war, and on the effects of his experiences on his life. Talks about being invalided out of the Army after returning to New Zealand and working on Alec Corrigan's farm for a time. Discusses returning to work for a stock and station agent, meeting and marrying Gladys, and their children. Interviewer(s) - Anna Cottrell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDV-0024 - OHDV-0027 Quantity: 4 videocassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3.32 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5094, OHDL-000789. Search dates: 1920 - 1939 - 2000 - 1945

Date: 1920, 1944-1997

By: Martin, Robert Thomas, 1921-2006

Reference: MS-Group-2284

Description: The collection comprises four folders on Robert Martin's career as a post office employee and telegraphist, while the rest consists of papers, scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings relating to his military service during World War II in North Africa, Italy, and the Solomon Islands with the Field Ambulance service of the New Zealand Medical Corps. Correspondence with his brother, Martin, and his sister, Valerie, are included, as is correspondence with two of his comrades in the Field Ambulance. Also included is a typed translation of a Japanese diary which he acquired during the Solomon Islands campaign, probably on Mono in the Treasury Islands, and a typed copy of the diary and other papers of his friend, Colin John Arroll, who also served with the Field Ambulance. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: Reflecting the circumstances of their accessioning, the collection is divided into three series. Quantity: 19 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs Finding Aids: A descriptive list compiled by the donor of the contents of the second accession (A2014-183) may be found in the backfiles held in the Reference Section of the Alexander Turnbull Library.. Provenance: Donated in two lots by Mrs Janet Hannan, Wanaka, during 2014. The first donation consisted of Robert Martin's civilian career as a telegraphist for the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department, and the second his photographs, correspondence and diaries from his military service in World War II. His friend, John Colin Arroll, who also served with the Field Ambulance, sent Robert Martin a copy of his diary, reminiscences and other papers. Donor is Robert Martin's daughter. Transfers: From Photographic Archive - PA-Group-00859 - To Photographic Archive - Albums and other photographs - Photograph albums transferred to Photographic Archive..

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-117

Description: Most photographs have captions. Include: Maravari cemetery, Vella Lavella; cemetery at Falamai, Mono Island; NZ cemetery at native village of Bangarangara; NZEP IP Vella Lavella campaign burial service in jungle; Allied Cemetery, Nissan Island (Green Island); Allied Cemetery, Guadalcanal; NZ cemetery near northern end of Vella Lavella; United Nations Cemetery, Treasury Islands; cemetery on Nissan Island showing graves of American marines. Honoring American dead on Guadalcanal - Solomon Islanders and members of allied military forces stand at attention during ceremonies at which a memorial chapel, built by 4,000 islanders to honor the 1,600 American dead buried on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons, was presented to the US people. The chapel is made entirely of thatch and wood with decorative panels on the exterior. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1943, 1945

By: Waldegrave, Henry Richard, 1920-1993

Reference: MS-Group-2080

Description: Collection comprises a military report (34 Bn Operation Order No 1) written on 24 Oct 1943 relating to the United states and New Zealand landings on Mono and Stirling Islands, Solomon Islands, during world War II; topographic report on the islands, including sketch plans; typed extract from Waldegrave's diary covering October and November 1943; copy of plan of Tongatapu, heavily annotated, showing postions and movements of the Pioneer Company of T-Force; printed surveys of the operations of the Third New Zealand Division in the Solomon Islands (1945), published by the Army Board, and a published account of the events covering the departure of B Force for Fiji to the New Hebrides 1940-1943 Source of title - Supplied by Library In 1942 the 34th Company of the 3rd Division sailed for Tonga, from Tonga to New Caledonia Mar 1943, and took part in the Solomon Island landings at Stirling and Mono islands in Oct 1943 Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.20 Linear Metres. Transfers: Photographs of Tonga transferred to Photograph Archive - To Photographic Archive - Black & white photographic prints of New Zealand soldiers in the Solomon Islands. Held in Photographic Archive as PAColl-10022.

Date: 1941, 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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-115

Description: Most photographs have captions. Include: Members of NZ Flying Boat Squadron at Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides); RNZAF mobile workshop at Guadalcanal; Lt Crass & Lt Barrow with Solomon Islanders; aerial photo of Stirling Island and Blanche Harbour; yachts at Falamai, Mono Island; Treasury Islands Yacht Club race; ammunition dump at Guadalcanal; NZ airmen in Solomons. Various views of Bougainville Island and nearby smaller islands - Sohana Island and Buka Passage, Buka Island, Kieta and Kieta Harbour, Teop Island and harbour, Petats Island, Numa Numa Beach, Arawa Bay. Church service; Fijian force in Bougainville jungle; ration drop; MV Malaita at Numa Numa; front page of Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1 Dec 1941; Skotolan Mission Station at Buka; Japanese transport burning as a result of American bombing (near shoreline at Tassaforonga); sketch maps of New Georgia showing Roviana Lagoon and Munda Airfield, and map of Solomon Group showing Japanese positions before American drive in 1943 (commando operations); National Patriotic store at Guadalcanal; Admiral Chester W Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Fleet, conferring award at Guadalcanal; Solomon islander being dressed by American medical officer, 1943; unloading operations at Falamai, Mono Island, Nov 1943 Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1942-1945]

By: Waldegrave, Henry Richard, 1920-1993

Reference: PAColl-10022

Description: Photographs collected by Henry Waldegrave who served in the Pioneer Company of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific during World War II. Images show military group portraits and military life and were taken circa 1942-1943 by unidentified official photographers. Also a set taken possibly by Henry Waldegrave in Tonga, and another set of ten tourist photographs taken in Fiji. Approximately ten items taken on Mono Island in the Treasury Islands (which form part of the Solomon Islands) including some taken at Malsi (coastal village, eastern Mono island) during the scrap', one of 'old Jap headquarters' and one of the 'British Solomon Islands Police Force with attached New Zealanders' Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donor is the son of Henry Waldegrave. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2080 : Waldegrave, Henry Richard, 1920- : Military papers relating to the Solomon Islands campaign..

Date: October 1943; 18 April 1944

From: Maine, Kenneth Foster, 1910-1986: Second World War papers

Reference: MS-Papers-12146

Description: Letter from Ken Maine to Mr. B Cannon of San Francisco, written 18 April 1944, which was returned to sender, undelivered. Letter discusses his shipboard travels, an accident on the boat, weather and experiences at sea, and mentions a boat that got lost but was later recovered. (The letter has been censored, removing the location where the boat was lost). Also contains a handwritten translation of a diary by an unknown Japanese soldier who was one of a group of twelve killed by an Allied patrol on 8 November 1943. The diary contains reactions to the Allied forces landing on 27 October 1943, and preparations for attack. Possibly transcribed by Maine. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Manuscripts

Date: 27 April 1984 - 27 Apr 1984

From: NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part II

By: Meek, Leslie Lockhart, 1918-1999

Reference: OHInt-0101/12

Description: Leslie Lockhart Meek born Wellington 1918. Outlines family background - mother a tailoress in Te Aro House, later James Smiths. Recalls polio epidemic (1930's) and refers to father's Condes Crystals gargle preventative treatment. Refers to Bells' Palsy suffered in infancy. Describes years at Wellington College (1931-1935), recalling L B Quartermain (Head of English), Tibby Brodie, Gary Lomus (father of bowling champion, Jack Lomus), Doug McKay (maths), and Martin (Martini) Smith. Describes first job with Picot Brothers (later became Internal Marketing Board). Talks about joining Customs, Wellington as a cadet in 1936. Refers to Bill Waugh who was in charge of sales tax, J E Stokes, Buster Crawford and Sandy Paul. Describes in detail Custom House, Wellington. Explains role of Preventive Officers, the `gatekeepers' and searchers. Mentions Sales Tax (1936) and Import Licensing (1938). Refers to Public Service Association, giving advantages of joining. Discusses World War II, and involvement in military action on Mono Island against the Japanese. Mentions Lieutenant Galloway, later headmaster at Palmerston North Boys High School, and his brave action. Describes feelings about the War. Reflects on career in Customs post-War. Discusses period as Administration Officer, describing responsibilities and recalls becoming member of the multi-departmental New Zealand National Air Facilitation Committee. Discusses EFTA (European Free Trade Association) and the EEC (European Economic Community). Refers to Peter Johnsen, Jim Lockwood and Ken Press. Recalls being chief censor at time of introduction of new Indecent Publications Act (1963) and involvement with film censorship. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000491-000493; OHLC-000213-000215 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0098. 3 b&w photographs: (i) Lesley Lockhart Meek (L) and Australian Official at Pacific Region Conference of National Air Facilitation Committee held in Bangkok ca 1971; (ii) Lesley Lockhart Meek (far r) with Austalian and Siamese delegates at Pacific Region Conference of National Air Facilitation Committees, Bangkok, ca 1971 and (iii) Les and Margaret Meek (mid 1940s). Search dates: 1918 - 1984

Date: between 1942-1945

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: WH-0602-F

Description: Group portrait of unidentified World War 2 NZEF IP (in the Pacific) Engineers standing on Saveke Bridge, which they built on Mono Island, Solomon Islands. Taken by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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: WH-0556

Description: World War 2 New Zealand soldiers with a 3 inch mortar in action during jungle training, Mono Island, Solomon Islands. Taken by an unknown photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 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: 1/2-044803-F

Description: Soldiers digging in the mud next to an army jeep. Taken in 1943 on Mono Island, Solomon Islands. From back of file print: " Mud - an everlasting problem under torrential rain" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 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: 1/2-044798-F

Description: World War II soldiers landing on Mono Island, Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands, in an LCI (Landing Craft - Infantry), while under fire. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Dated from inscription on negative. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - right of image - J2821/27/43; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - J2821 Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 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

Reference: 1/2-044702-F

Description: Soldier next to [a makeshift oven?] in an army camp on Mono Island, Solomon Islands. Taken in 1944. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 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

Reference: 1/2-044769-F

Description: Looking from Mono Island, across Blanche Harbour, to Stirling Island, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative