Armoured personnel carriers

Date: [ca 1967-1968]

From: Harvey, Michael Alexander, 1940- :Transparencies relating to Harvey's service during the Vietnam War of 1961-1975

Reference: PA12-11094

Description: Transparencies (slides) relating to Michael Alexander Harvey's service during the Vietnam War of 1961-1975 taken between 1967-1968 by unidentified photographers. The slides include images of soldiers, explosions, helicopters, APCs [Armoured personnel carriers], tanks and paddy fields. In some images the soldiers are standing outside a tent with sandbags at its base, and groups of soldiers marching, riding on top of a tank and APC, also soliers with guns and with smoke after explosions. Some slides have captions which include: 'cordon'; 'Goldylocks'; 'Mac'; 'Bob Young'; 'Shrapnel on tree'; 'APC pulling tank'; 'US armoured convoy ambush' and 'Martin Steeds'. The 'Goldylocks' image includes a soldier standing next to a sign which says 'Welcome to tombstone territory. Goldylocks and his 34 performing bears'. Arrangement: Slides have been kept in the same order as supplied by Harvey. The first ten slides on this sheet were in a box titled 'FSB Balmoral' and the remainder were in box 2, which was labelled 'Mike Harvey'. Dates on the slides appear to be when they were developed. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 2001

From: Harbour, Kyle, 1968- :Photographs of the New Zealand Army in East Timor

Reference: 35mm-43584-1-F

Description: New Zealand soldiers on armoured personnel carrier patrol, East Timor, photographed in 2001 by Kyle Harbour. Finding Aids: Photocopy of this image is on the shelf at PAColl-7641, album 1, image 64.

Date: 17 Apr 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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-09220-F

Description: In the town of Medicina, a Sherman dozer prepares the way for two New Zealand tanks [Priest Kangaroo APC] to pass, carrying military personnel. Photograph taken in April 1945, by G F Kaye. Note on back of file print reads: "? Brit self propelled guns." "No - Appears to be Grant chassis without turret". 4th NZ Armed Brigade is also noted as a subject. Vehicle in the foreground identified as a Priest Kangaroo armoured personnel carrier by a researcher. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 2005

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DX-022-263

Description: Shows a family having breakfast. The boy, reading off the back of his father's paper, asks why the army is selling the armoured personnel carriers. The father replies that there is no armoured personnel to carry. Refers to the army's decision to put its old fleet of M113 armoured personnel carriers on the market, and to perceptions that the Government is running down the armed forces. Other Titles - "It's some time, son, since we've had any armoured personnel to carry!" Quantity: 1 digital image(s) ..

Date: [ca 1 Mar 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: Short, J, active 1945

Reference: DA-08339-F

Description: Red Cross Bren carrier ambulance, of New Zealand 18th Armoured Regiment, World War II, Italy, circa 1 March 1945. Used for front line evacuation of wounded. Shows the crew: G R Murray (West Coast), and E A Quedley (Auckland). Photograph taken by J Short. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 2001

From: Harbour, Kyle, 1968- :Photographs of the New Zealand Army in East Timor

Reference: 35mm-43606-5-F

Description: Armoured personnel carrier on patrol, East Timor This operation was on a public relations mission to accustom the East Timorese to the United Nations forces. The local population were nervous of anything that looked like a military operation. (info Kyle Harbour). Finding Aids: Photocopy of this image is on the shelf at PAColl-7641, album 1, image 63.

Date: 1969

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Defence-NZ Army, Vietnam-18

Description: New Zealand soldiers of Victor Two Company, in 1969, during the Vietnam War, moving out on an operation in Phuoc Tuy Province. They are aboard Australian armoured personnel carriers. Photographer unidentified. Other - This photograph may have been published in the Evening Post, in January 1983. Source of descriptive information - Caption attached to back of print. Arrangement: Print in Turnbull Library Pictures Evening Post illustrations file at cabinet 6, drawer 1, at Defence/Army/Vietnam Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16.5 x 21.6 cm