Colon

Date: 1934

From: Crump, Spencely Noel Stanley :Photographs relating to the British Empire Games of 1934 and 1938

Reference: PA1-o-967

Description: Photographs taken during the New Zealand British Empire Games team's journey to Britian on the SS Remuera. Passengers, boat drill and other shipboard activities are recorded. There are pictures of the Panama Canal, and a few of Colon. Though there are photographs of athletes and one or two of the events at the Games, this album is more about socialising and the places visited while in England. Swimming pools are prety well covered including the Kingfisher's Pool in Epping Forest where the New Zealand swimmers trained, and the big new covered Empire Swimming Pool in London. Views from their London hotel, Wimbeldon, and a visit to Eton College where they were looked after by school boys in top hats and tails. While visiting Croydon Airport they took a flight over the outer suburbs of London in a multi engined air liner. They saw Windsor Castle, the trooping of the colour, and visited Chester Cathedral. After the games, they travelled home with the Australian team on the Ormonde via Suez, Colombo, and Sydney Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: October 1917 - March 1918

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-q-993

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on voyage from Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England, with 32nd Reinforcements. Left Port Chalmers 15 November 1917, called at Wellington (16-21 November), Balboa and Panama Canal (12 December), Colon (12-13 December), Newport News (19-24 December), Halifax (27-28 December), arrived Liverpool 7 January 1918. Includes views of locks on Panama Canal, damage caused by Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, ships Mount Vernon, Imo (damaged in Halifax Explosion) and HMCS Niobe. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album , 32 x 27 cm

Date: 1915-1919

From: Boyd, Mary Beatrice 1921- :Photographs relating to Mackersey family

Reference: PAColl-9855-1

Description: Loose prints associated with Jessie Mary Mackersey's album. These include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey, London ca 1917. Portrait of Wastel Briscoe born 1888-died Gallipoli 19 May 1915. Group of Soldiers of 24th Rifles, Featherston Military Camp. Group on the deck of `Prinzessan' en route for New Zealand, 1919. Colon and Church of Christ by the sea, 1919. Views of the Panama Canal and its technologies seen from the ship, 1919. Albert Memorial, London. Holiday at Lake Waikaremoana includes - View of the lake, Papakorito Falls, and friends of Lindsay Mackersey. Photographs of soldiers include - Studio portrait of Lindsay Mackersey with unidentified soldier. Studio portrait of Leslie Mackersey, Blake Mason and two unidentified soldiers, 1916. Group of unidentified soldiers probably in New Zealand. Voyage to New Zealand on `Prinzessan' via Panama Canal 1919, and holiday at Lake Waikaremoana. Leslie Mackersey was in the 6th Rifles 1 NZEF. Lindsay Mackersey was in the 24th Rifles. While in the occupation force in Germany he served as instructor-in-law to service men studying for law degrees prior to repatriation. He was bilited in Leverhusen Village near Cologne in 1919. Margaret was on the staff at the New Zealand General Hospital No.1, Brockenhurst, England. Quantity: 37 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand.

Date: October 1917 - March 1918

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-q-994

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England, with 32nd Reinforcements. Left Port Chalmers 15 November 1917, called at Wellington (16-21 November), Balboa and Panama Canal (12 December), Colon (12-13 December), Newport News (19-24 December), Halifax (27-28 December), arrived Liverpool 7 January 1918. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers. Left Liverpool 3 February 1918, called at Colon (20-21 February 1918, Panama Canal and Balboa (21 February 1918), Auckland (15-16 March 1918) Wellington (18-28 March 1918), arrived Port Chalmers 29 March 1918. Includes views of Manawatu Gorge, Paekakariki railway line, locks on Panama Canal, Colon, Newport News, damage caused by Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917, Auckland Harbour, Dunedin, and ships Mount Vernon, Imo (damaged in Halifax Explosion), Leviathan, HMCS Niobe and yacht Viking. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album , 32 x 27 cm

Date: Between 1917 and 1924

From: Firth, Pauline J, fl 1977 :Photograph albums of New Zealand and of World War I

By: Whitaker, Arthur, active 1916-1940?

Reference: PA1-o-176

Description: Album with images of New Zealanders travelling to Europe on transport ships during World War I, including storms at sea; ship-board sports; the coaling station at Cristobels, Colon, Panama; the Panama Canal. Later views show members of the Star Boating Club in Wellington. Photographs taken by Arthur Whitaker. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover entitled `Photographs'; 16 x 21 cm

Date: ca 1917-1918

From: Flux, Arthur, 1896?-1983 :Photographs relating to Flux's service in World War One

Reference: PA1-o-1203

Description: Album containing photographs of Forest Park Hotel, Brockenhurst, England, which was used as a military hospital during World War One, taken ca 1917-1918. Includes photographs of patients, nurses, views of the town, and photographs taken by Flux on his voyage back to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Vinyl covered album 20.5 x 26 cm

Date: 1947-1948, 1958

By: White, Nora Margaret, active 1958

Reference: MSY-7122

Description: Travel scrapbook compiled by Miss White during her round trip from New Zealand to England in 1947-1948. White left Auckland aboard the `Rakaia' on 27 Mar 1947, arriving in London 30 Apr 1947. The first two items in the scrapbook are a summons for a King Neptune event aboard the `Rakaia' on 12 Apr 1947 and a beer coaster for Heineken beer from Colon, Panama. The next pages are filled with ephemera items collected from White's travels around the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe. Included are theatre programmes, postcards, photographs, admission passes, sketch maps, an invite to a Presentation Party at Buckingham Palace, horse race programme for Royal Ascot, tourist programmes and leaflets, menus, newspaper cuttings relating to Wimbledon tennis championships, London Olympic programmes (1948), Royal wedding programmes and newspaper cuttings of churches and cathedrals, and "Rimutaka Jockey Club" race programmes circulated as a shipboard event. White left London aboard the `Rimutaka' 13 Oct 1948, arriving in Wellington 22 Nov 1948. The latter part of the scrapbook records a journey by White to the Lambeth Conference in England in 1958. White was secretary to Anglican Archbishop Owen. Left Lyttelton 13 Mar 1958 arriving in London 13 Apr 1958. Sailed aboard the `Port Auckland'. Collected ephemera include postcards, programmes, tourist maps, booklets, invitations, guide books and an itinerary relating to White's travels in England, Italy and Venice. Also newspaper cuttings relating to the Lambeth Conference and postcards of various churches visited. On 17 Jul 1958 White launched the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand's vessel the `Waikare' in Glasgow. White's father C G White was a director of the Union Steamship Company in Wellington. Includes an invitation to the launch and telegrams from New Zealand. White sailed from London aboard the Shaw Savill Line ship `S.S. Athenic' on 11 Sep 1958, arriving in Wellington 13 Oct 1958. Shipboard records include a menu, passenger list, postcard of vessel and programmes for the "Athenic Jockey Club's" Atlantic meeting. Source of title - Supplied by Library Miss White made two visits to the United Kingdom in the 1940s and 1950s. She served as Anglican Archbishop Owen's secretary on the second trip. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, photographs, ephemera and printed material Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms D Holderness, Christchurch, Sep 2013

Date: 1927-1929

From: Elston family: Correspondence and photograph album

Reference: PA1-o-947

Description: Album compiled by Elston family (Alf & Dot Elston, and children Joan & Alfie) during voyage from England to New Zealand on the Tainui in 1927, and first two years in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: February - June 1919

From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys

Reference: PA1-o-1395

Description: Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages: Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 5 February 1919, called at Colombo (24 February 1919), Bombay (27 February - 9 March 1919), Karachi (11 March 1919), Suez and Suez Canal (20 March 1919), Port Said (21 March - 10 April 1919), Alexandria (11-15 April 1919), Gibraltar (21 April919), Southampton (25-26 April 1919), arrived Liverpool 28 April 1919. She carried 98 passengers from Bombay to Port Said; 1800 officers and men from Karachi to Port Said; 750 British soldiers and 60 passengers from Alexandria to Southampton; and 11 passengers and 7 ambulance cases from Gibraltar to Southampton. Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with 1124 New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 17 May 1919, called at Colon (31 May - 1 June 1919), Panama Canal and Balboa (1 June 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 23 June 1919. Includes views of Suez Canal, wharves at Colombo. Bombay, Karachi, Port Said and Alexandria, Panama Canal locks and gates, French and British warships, soldiers embarking to return home, and Peace Day celebrations in Port Chalmers and Christchurch. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown cloth-bound album with brown morrocco spine and corners, 21 x 19 cm

Date: [Between 1916 and 1919]

By: Quartermain, Leslie Bowden, 1895-1973

Reference: PA1-o-425

Description: Photographs chiefly taken by Leslie Bowden Quartermain during his time in the New Zealand Medical Corps, World War I. Most of the men photographed are named only with Christian names, surnames or nicknames. The first sequence shows various military camps, including the training depot set up at the Awapuni Racecourse for the Medical Corps. There they were trained in specialist medical work, and also in basic infantry training and discipline. The following sequences were taken en route to Europe, with stops at Fremantle, Durban, Cape Town, and Dakar. The arrival in England gives views in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire where the men were quartered before travelling to France. Two show the village of Lewknor, the ancestral home of the Quartermain family; and several show the royal review of Australian and New Zealand troops on Salisbury Plain. Other views were taken on leave from France; and with the army of occupation in Cologne, before the voyage home on the ship Kia Ora, through the Panama Canal. The final photograph is a group portrait with Leslie Bowden Quartermain in military uniform seated in the middle of a large group, probably Quartermain family, taken in 1919. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, entitled "Photographs"; 21.5 x 17.5 cm