World War, 1914-1918 - Military personnel, German - France

Date: 1917-1918

From: [Ephemera collected by Edmund John Edwards during time in the armed forces during World War One. 1914-1918]

By: Mcintyre, Shirreffs, 1881-1919

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-Edwards-01/12

Description: The cards were part of the Red Triangle series published by the YMCA Card titles include: 01. Amiens Cathedral from the banks of the Somme 02. Doing it hard! On a ration party in muddy Flanders 03. Fritz sends up a flare in No-Man's-Land; when a digger feels as big as a house 04. Fritz; some typical specimens 05. On duty at a listening post 06. Our "Little Grey Home" at the Base 07. "Napoo Fini!" 08. That's the stuff to gie 'em! 09. She's a hard war, Dig! 10. The mark of the Hun; the ruins of a Flanders town 11. A well-known village on the Somme 12. Wind vertical! A Hun "Gotha" on a bombing stunt The Library has original artwork by the same artist at A-225-006/010. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Sizes varying up to 240 mm.

Date: 1918

By: Richardson, Keith George, 1938-2011

Reference: MS-Papers-9148

Description: Postcard, dropped by the Germans behind Allied lines in France, and sent by Reasbeck to his children, Arthur and Gladys. Shows Kaiser Wilhelm and Generals von Hindenberg and Ludendorff looking at a map in the German GHQ. Accompanied by typed note from Keith Richardson transcribing the message sent by Reasbeck on the back, and adding information on its origin Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms, typescript, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Keith Richardson, 2008

Date: 1915

Reference: Eph-D-WAR-WI-NonNZ-1915-01

Description: An arrangement of text on a poster issued by the German forces occupying France, giving regulations about written correspondence with prisoners of war. Written in French, these regulations are as follows: 1. Only postcards are acceptable as correspondence 2. Prisoners can write and receive a card only once a month 3. Postcards sent to prisoners must be precisely addressed. If the address is unknown they should be addressed to: Zentralnachweisburo des Koenigl. Kriegsministeriums, Berlin N.W., 7 Dorotheenstrasse. 4. Unfranked cards must be left with the command staff 5. Correspondence with Luxembourg is forbidden 6.For the purposes of the above rules, prisoners of war are considered not only those in the French Army but also civilians who for any reason have been sent to Germany. Money could be sent to prisoners, up to the value of 40 marks. The notice is handsigned by Scheibe at Solesmes. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 590 x 435 mm, backed with loose-weave fabric

Date: 1916

Reference: Eph-D-WAR-WI-NonNZ-1916-01

Description: An arrangement of text in both German and French, on a poster issued by the German forces giving orders regarding the duty of citizens to give help when requested: 1. Anyone capable of work will be forced to work, even outside of their home area, in cases where they are playing, drunk, idle, unemployed or lazy, and where they could help to maintain someone else 2. Everyone must help in cases of accident or danger, or public calamity, to the extent of their capability, even outside their district. If they refuse, they will be forced. 3. Whoever refuses to work as above, is liable to be imprisoned for up to 3 years or fined 10,000 marks. If the action is committed as a group, each accomplice will be treated as instigator, and imprisoned for at least a week. The poster has "Beauvois" written on the verso, and so may have been found there. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Beauvois [?] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 450 x 560 mm.

Date: 1914 - 1918

Reference: Eph-C-WAR-WI-NonNZ-01

Description: An arrangement of text on a poster issued by the German forces occupying France or Belgium, to inform farmers that crops gathered and threshed must be declared to the local authority office (which will report them to Command every Sunday), or else they will be confiscated. Assumed to relate to the First World War because of other posters accompanying it. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on green paper, 275 x 420 mm.

Date: 1917

Reference: Eph-D-WAR-WI-NonNZ-1917-01

Description: Issue of a newspaper in the French language, issued four times a week in occupied territory. The main article on the first page is titled "Stockholm", and there are smaller paragraphs of official German, French and English news bulletins. The second page has a list of about 200 recently interned French prisoners of war, and there are other articles relating to war matters, naval losses, the tenth Battle of the Isonzo, American and Russian involvement in the war and several other subjects. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet folded to 600 x 440 mm.

Date: 1917

Reference: Eph-D-WAR-WI-1917-03

Description: Poster written in Judeo-Arabic, English and French compares and contrasts the benevolent and respectful attitude of British troops towards inhabitants of a captured Jerusalem, with the punitive attitude of German troops after their capture of Holnon in 1915, when inhabitants were threatened with exile and physical punishment if they did not work in the fields. At top left is the text of General Allenby's proclamation to the inhabitants of Jerusalem after the British defeat of the Ottoman Turks and seizure of Jerusalem in December 1917. Alongside it in French at the right, is the stern edict presented by the German Commandant Colonel Gloss when he took Holnon. The middle portion is a commentary in Judeo-Arabic (ie a Jewish dialect of Arabic written in Hebrew script). Below, both Allenby's and Gloss' pronouncements are translated into Judeo-Arabic. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress work, 735 x 485 mm. Provenance: One copy previously owned by the Dominion Museum, Wellington

Date: 27 Aug 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013543-G

Description: The German medical officer, Lt Schnelling of the 14th Bavarian Regiment, who was detailed to attend the German wounded and who came to a New Zealand Ambulance near the front line. Schnelling, left, is pictured with Colonel J. Hardie Neil and Major H M Goldstein. Photograph taken near Bapaume, France, 27 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Caption - "So many more German wounded came into a New Zealand Ambulance that a Bavarian Medical Officer was detailed to attend to his compatriots." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H974 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 1 November 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013694-G

Description: New Zealanders in France at Pont-a-Pierre moving wounded German soldiers onto stretchers. The Germans were brought down on a farm cart from the front line. Photograph taken ca 1 November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Caption - Caption at PA1-f-092 reads " Badly wounded Germans brought down from front line in a farm cart. 1/11/18. Near Le Quesnoy" Other - Photograph 1/2-013697, in album PA1-f-092 at H1144, showing another view of the same event is labelled as being at Pont-a-Pierre on 2/11/1918 ???? Scource of descriptive information - Information in "Historical notes" from Franck Bruyere, a citizen of Le Quesnoy, June 2008. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H1139 The place is a large farm located at Pont-a-Pierre, a hamlet in the town and administrative district of Beaudignies, near to Le Quesnoy. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 15 Apr 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013128-G

Description: New Zealand soldiers hold up New Zealand and German army underclothing to compare the materials each type is made of. While the former is made of wool, the latter consists of lighter material 'resembling sackcloth'. Photograph taken Bus-les-Artois 15 April 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Caption - "A cheerful stretcher case being loaded on the blighty train." (Album) Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H510 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1918

From: O'Grady, James, 1882?-1956 :[Two World War I trench sketchbooks. 1918-1919]

Reference: E-920-061

Description: Shows an open space or square (known in 2009 as the Place Aristide Briand) in a town. The buildings on left and right are ruined but the impressive three-storeyed central Town Hall building with a central tower is relatively unscathed and bears the sign "Kommandantur" across the front. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 126 x 198 mm.

Date: 1918

From: O'Grady, James, 1882?-1956 :[Two World War I trench sketchbooks. 1918-1919]

Reference: E-920-020

Description: Shows two views of a German tunnel on a battlefield in France. The top view shows the entrance to the tunnel from outside, and the lower view shows the interior, well constructed with a stairway some metres along on the left. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 198 x 126 mm.

Date: 1918 - 1914

From: O'Grady, James, 1882?-1956 :[Two World War I trench sketchbooks. 1918-1919]

Reference: E-920-058

Description: Shows a roadside memorial in the shape of a cross with a plaque. In the foreground lie a dead horse and a soldier. The memorial was erected by the Germans after 20 September 1914 when a complete column of armoured German vehicles was destroyed, with all occupants killed, about 10 km south of the town of Cambrai. The Bonavis Ridge where the monument stood, was captured by New Zealand troops on the last days of September 1918, and the sketch was likely to have been done in early October 1918 The verso (page 59) contains a transcription of the wording on the memorial's plaque: "Hier starben den [...] den Tod furs Vaterland, am 20 September 1914, die Kraftfahrer Oberleutenent Becker, Vicefeldwebel Michels, Utffz (Unteroffizier) Heek, Utffz David, Gefr Mahlmann, Kraftf Degelmann, Kraftf Rubel, Platz, Baum, Prinzen, Klostermann, Ziemer, Knapf, Schafer, Fabry, Burghardt. Bei gleichem Anless fielen bei Bellanglise Leutnant Kendel fuhrer der EKK 50 19-9-14; Leutnant Gesehke Vom Stab Kdr d kr Tr 1 20-9-14; Kraftf Hoffmann 20-9-14". [The list of soldiers who died for the Fatherland on 20 September 1914] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 126 x 198 mm.

Date: 27 Aug 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013549-G

Description: A German medical officer, identified as Lt Schnelling of the 14th Bavarian Regiment, watching the removal of a wounded soldier at a New Zealand Field Ambulance near Bapaume in World War I. Colonel J Hardie Neil stands beside Schnelling. Ambulances wait in the background. Photograph taken 27 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Other - An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-094 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H980 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [ca 1 November 1918]

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013697-G

Description: New Zealanders in France at Pont-a-Pierre moving wounded German soldiers onto stretchers. The Germans had been brought down on a farm cart from the front line. Photograph taken ca 1 November 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Information in "Historical notes" from Franck Bruyere, a citizen of Le Quesnoy, June 2008. The place is a large farm located at Pont-a-Pierre, a hamlet in the town and administrative district of Beaudignies, near Le Quesnoy. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H1144 Photograph 1/2-013694, in album PA1-f-092 at H1139 , showing another view of the same event is labelled as being near Le Quesnoy on 1/11/1918 ??? Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches