New Georgia Group

Date: [1944]

From: Wright, Alfred Charles Seymour, 1916?-1998 : Journal

Reference: MSX-5967

Description: Journal kept by Wright while on active service in the Solomon Islands in World War Two; includes notes on maps, soil, geography, weather and rainfall, geology, Pidgin English, botany and war matters; Wright has indexed the journal, has drawn several maps, land profiles and rain gauges Wright has recorded a brief history of the Solomon Islands and New Britain; he has described the occupation of Vella Lavella and included a newspaper clipping about the island; and from the `Pacific Islands monthly' (Jan 1944), has recorded the Japanese entry to Guadalcanal Maps in the journal are for Necal, Guadalcanal, Florida Island, New Georgia Group, Treasury Group, Balbi or Bougainville Island and Buka Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1924-1942

From: Pacific Manuscripts Bureau : Records of the Pacific Area

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-08-0713-0715

Description: Correspondence from Jones to her relatives and friends in New Zealand, describing her career as a teacher and life at the Munda Methodist Mission, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. Relationship complexity - See Micro-MS-Coll-08-0594-0599 for diaries kept by Lina Jones. Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, PMB

Date: 1943-1948

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-4161-01-147

Description: Most photographs contain captions; some are stamped `Official RNZAF photographs'. Group photograph of a conference of padres in the RNZAF held at Frederic Wallis House, Lower Hutt, 1944 (all named on back); NZ Fighter Wing `score board' at New Georgia, Nov 1943 to record number of Japanese aircraft hit (group around the board includes Air Commodore S Wallington, Wing Commander T O Freeman, Air Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, Major General H E Barrowclough); RNZAF Band playing outside the USA hospital, Guadalcanal, 1944 (W/O R H Simpson conducting); Wings Parade - Course 61 medal presentation (Squadron Leader E T Mileski, Squadron Leader J R Welsh, Air Commodore A de T Nevill, LAC Johnson), Nov 1942; fighter pilots on return from battle in SW Pacific war zone, 1944; F/O R C Beazer of Feilding and P/O Letourneau of Canada (both of NZ RAF Mosquito Fighter Bomber Squadron). First NZ airmen repatriated from German hands welcomed by Air Vice Marshal L M Isitt and Air Secretary T A Barrow (group includes Warrant Officers D C Allen, J I B Walker and H M English); RNZAF ground crew on an amphibious truck (called a `Duck'); Lockheed Hudson bomber crew reporting back from a reconnaissance flight over the Solomons area; group photo of NZ Catalina flying boat crew, 1945 (all named); pilots being briefed before a `strike', Guadalcanal, 19 Jun 1943; RNZAF Corsair aircraft flying in formation at Guadalcanal, 1944. Catalina flying boats and RNZAF band on visit to Halavo Bay, the seaplane base in the Solomon Islands, 1944; Dakota aircraft at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1944; YMCA `tea truck' serving RNZAF ground crew who are maintaining Kittyhawks; Wing Commander de Willimoff and others in flying suits beside Corsair aircraft; group beside a Kittyhawk (includes Squadron Leader Newton); group photo of flight mechanics and riggers on airstrip in Pacific (all named); Brigadier General R L Owens, Deputy-Commanding-General, 13th Air Force, USAAF, presenting the American Distinguished Flying Cross to Flying Officer M T Vanderpump, ca 1943; Air Commodore Sir Robert Clarke-Hall talking with Major General R J Mitchell, USMC, prior to latter's departure from Bougainville (others in photo include Air Commodore G N Roberts, Wing Commander A B Greenaway & Wing Commander H R Wigley); Christmas Day in the mess hall, 1942; group of NZ pilots having a `Smoko' during Battle of Bougainville, 1943 (some name on front in ballpoint); aftermath on Bougainville (aerial photo of Japanese barge on beach); men of the RNZAF on board the `Wahine' at Torokina, Bougainville bound for NZ. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [19--]

From: Hocart, Arthur Maurice, 1883-1939 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0060-43

Description: Maps, printed and manuscript of New Georgia Group, Solomon Islands, Eddystone Island; village plans from Samoa, Roviana; coast of Rotuma; printed maps of Fiji Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1997

From: Thompson, Eric Hardisty, 1922-2000 : Papers

Reference: 2001-008-062

Description: Talk or article, `New Zealand and the world wars' by Thompson; and annotated map of New Georgia Islands Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: 1844 - 1860

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-041

Description: An ornamental canoe prow, in the shape of a head; a kava bowl. Also shows two Pacific Island artifacts, one a club or pick, one an oar Dating: These drawings may have been made when Angas was Secretary and Accountant of the Australian Museum in Sydney, 1853-1860, from specimens in the Museum. However they could also have been part of Angas' own collection, since in early 1853 he gifted to the Museum 21 items of ethnographic interest from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Other Titles - Kava Quantity: 4 watercolour(s) (on one sheet). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on sheet 330 x 254 mm

Date: Nov 1943

From: Evatt, G S: Photographs, chiefly regarding the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II

Reference: 1/2-106437-F

Description: Group around the New Zealand Fighter Wing score board, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, during World War II. New Zealand fighters scored 99 Japanese hits. From left to right: Air Commodore Sidney Wallingford, Wing Commander T O Freeman, Governor General of New Zealand Sir Cyril Newall, and Major-General Harold Eric Barrowclough. Photograph taken in November 1943 by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 7 Jul 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: DA-09565-F

Description: World War II soldiers, including Sergeant Kennard, with the group of Fiji commandos they headed through the jungle, and the Solomon Islanders who guided and transported them, New Georgia Group, Solomon Islands, circa 7 July 1943. Photograph taken by an unidentified official photographer from the United States Army Signal Corps. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. It is not clear which is Sgt Kennard. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative