World War, 1914-1918 - War work - Red Cross

Date: 1943

From: [Christmas cards sent during the Second World War, from soldiers and other servicemen. 1940-1945].

By: 3rd NZ General Hospital (Beirut, Lebanon)

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWII-1943-03

Description: A greeting card sent from the 3rd New Zealand General Hospital. It shows a tiki and red cross on the front cover, and, inside, a picture of the hospital, set up in a fort in the Middle East, with red crosses on the walls and an ambulance driving by. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on folded card, 88 x 137 mm. Provenance: Purchased in 2005.

Date: 1918

From: [Collection of ephemera and programmes of octavo size, for musical events, the collection of organist, choirmaster, conductor Robert Parker (1847-1937), 1870s-1939]

By: Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Parker-1918-01

Description: Programme for a concert in which the State Schools' Choir, a children's choir, performed. Adult soloists were Charles Kerry (grand organ), Frank Charlton (song), Walter Warren (song) and conductor Robert Parker. The programme reproduces the words of all the songs. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on pink paper folded to 210 x 135 mm.

Date: [ca 1915-1916]

Reference: PAColl-10006

Description: Photographic prints relating to military service during World War I, probably taken and/or collected by an unidentified New Zealand soldier. Many are described on the backs of the prints. Images show military life between circa 1915-1916 at a range of locations, particularly at Anzac Cove (Gallipoli), and Ismailiya (Egypt). Areas of focus are trenches, weaponry, and shipboard and street scenes. Also includes nurses, a military hospital, ambulatory division, skinny dipping, and a race involving blindfolded nurses being led through a course. Includes eight images of a military wedding at Lahore, 1915 or 1916. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 89 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1915

By: Barnes, Frank, 1859-1941

Reference: C-175

Description: Three vignettes of World War I ships at sea: the NZHS Maheno in its hospital colours, framed by rope with a Red Cross flag and a garland of flowers including fern and kanuka; the HMS New Zealand, framed by rope, with a Union Jack and the British white ensign and a garland of flowers including pohutukawa; and the NZHS Marama in its hospital colours, also framed by rope with a Red Cross flag and a garland of flowers including fern and manuka The library also holds an oil of the SS Maheno in 1907, in its pre-WWI colours, at G-344; and a postcard of the ship in its hospital colours at Eph-B-POSTCARD-vol-4-041 The Library holds a watercolour of the Marama by E A Watkin, dated 1938, at B-163-040 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on wooden board, 135 x 685 mm

Date: [1914-1918]

By: Underwood & Underwood (Firm)

Reference: PA4-0502

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a Red Cross dog and soldier, taken by photographer from Underwood and Underwood. Inscriptions: Mount verso - No. 35. - A Red Cross dog and soldier he got help for.- Copyright by Underwood and Underwood. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1918

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

Reference: 1/2-014075-G

Description: Members of the British? Red Cross march in a parade, probably the Lord Mayor's Procession, in Ludgate Circus, London, at the end of World War I. They follow a highland pipe band. Policemen contain the large crowd watching. Photograph taken November 1918 by Thomas Frederick Scales. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - UK272 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: [between 1916-1917]

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6972-12-22-2

Description: Medical staff standing on a giant Red Cross flag at the main hospital camp of the 7th Medical Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, Serbia, during World War I. Photograph taken between 1916-1917, by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Ostrovo; Mount recto - beneath image - Red Cross Flag Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 6.2 x 8.8 cm, mounted on brown paper

Date: ca 1915

From: Jones, Frederick Nelson, 1881-1962 :Negatives of the Nelson district

Reference: 1/1-009356-G

Description: Hospital supplies being packed and sent to Egypt and England from the Nelson Red Cross depot. Photographed by Frederick Nelson Jones. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 27 March 1919

From: Thorndon School :Photographs relating to Thorndon School

Reference: 1/2-169860-F

Description: Certificate presented by the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John to Thorndon School in recognition of the school's assistance during the Great War, 1914-1918. The certificate is signed by the Governor General, Lord Liverpool, in his capacity as president of the society. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (copy of original print returned to owner). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative 100 x 125 mm

Date: 1915

By: Drummond-Fish, George, 1876-1938; Cohen, David, active 1990s

Reference: A-234-014

Description: Shows an early morning scene in June/July 1915 looking across the crowded dugouts and bivvies of ANZAC Cove, while smoke rises from the breakfast fires. View from just outside General Birdwood's HQ dugout (bivvy in foreground with sloping roof), and shows some of his staff officers. The man seated with a pipe is a colonel in Birdwood's headquarters. Watson's Pier is the nearer double pier. The Casualty Clearing station on the shoreline at right is shown by the Red Cross flag. Looking south to Hell's Spit in background, with Plugge's Plateau at left, showing Godley's Terrace (housing Austrralian and New Zealand HQ) near the top of it just below the skyline. Factual details supplied by Chris Pugsley, prior to purchase. Horace Moore-Jones painted a similar scene in his 1915 Gallipoli sketches. This is held at Library of the Royal Commonwealth Society, London. ATL has lithograph published from it in 1916, at C-057-012-3. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - G. DRUMMOND FISH / R. I. RIFLES Captain Drummond Fish was probably a staff member at General Birdwood's headquarters at ANZAC bay. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 243 x 338 mm. Provenance: Previously purchased at auction in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Date: [ca 1913-1919]

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1752

Description: Photograph album relating to nursing work and travels during World War I, probably compiled by Elizabeth Porteous of the NZANZ (New Zealand Army Nursing Service) who was awarded the ARRC (Associate Royal Red Cross). The images, which are well identified, are chiefly of Egypt and England. New Zealand Expeditionary Force hospitals and convalescent homes are featured, as are scenes of the local community and tourist sites. There are also a few images documenting the journey aboard hospital ships. Views of Heliopolis, Egypt, include the Sultana's Palace, Luna Park (the site of the Australian Auxillary Hospital), and the Heliopolis Palace Hotel (the site of the No.1 Australian General Hospital). Views of Luxor, Egypt, include temples and the Colossi of Memnon. Views of Cairo, Egypt, include the Kasr-el-Nil Bridge, zoological gardens, Barrage Gardens, street scenes, and a military hospital in the Citadel. Views of Aboukir Bay, Egypt, show an old fort, and a group of nurses relaxing in the ocean. Views of Alexandria, Egypt, include catacombs and exhibits in a museum. Views of Pont de Koubbeh, Egypt, show an exterior view of the New Zealand General Hospital, nurses' home, and patients from Ward I and Ward IA. A mansion in Sandwich Bay, Kent, England, called 'Rest Harrow', possibly being used as a hospital. Named figures include 'Miss Plunket with Belinda', and 'Miss [Toombe?], Matron'. Images taken at No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Forest Park, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England, show patients, staff, grounds and buildings including Brookside. Also people skating on a frozen lake. Photographs of troops and nurses taken onboard hospital ship 'Maheno' (identified as 'Mahena') and 'Ruapehu'. Views of Amiens, France, include views of the Somme River, and military tents. A postcard of 'Le Lycee de Jeunes Filles' (a building). Christmas celebrations at an unidentified military hospital. Views of the interior of a surgical theatre, with staff. Views of Codford, Salisbury Plain, England, include No.3 New Zealand General Hospital and Army Training Camp; a cemetery, thatched cottages and streets in surrounding area; a postcard of Old Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, published by R Wilkinson & Co, Trowbridge. Images of an unidentified woman with a baby identified as Shirley. Two images clipped from newspapers, one showing two nurses, with the caption 'Miss FA Adams and Miss Maud Mitchell, two nurses who are to accompany the Coronation Contingent to London', and the other depicting soldiers wounded in the battle of the Somme, on the deck of an unidentified hospital ship enroute to Auckland. A set of four photographs of a flag unfurling ceremony at the New Zealand General Hospital, Pont de Koubbeh, Cairo, ca December 1915. Named figures are Lady Maxwell, Colonel Parkes, and Colonel Mackesy. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hard-covered photograph album, with the title 'Snapshots', 17 x 23 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2063: Mackrell, Brent, 1939-: Collected papers relating to war and other topics.