Jansen, Elwyn George, 1904-1979

Date: ca1910-ca1929

By: Jansen, Elwyn George, 1904-1979; Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s

Reference: PAColl-6174

Description: Photographs relating to the Jensen family, especially to E G (Paddy) Jensen. There is also a portrait of the Presbyterian medical missionary, Dr Owen Lamont Eaton, who was shot in China in 1939. Quantity: 14 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941-1945, 1949

From: Jansen, Nancy, fl 1940-1996 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5556-2

Description: Comprises a page of tin labels, outline of the `Hedleian Museum of Natural History' (1942); CAC card; verse composed by Jansen, Bible notes, a Chinese script letter, application for permit for transportation of goods to Kong Chuen Hospital (1941) and notes on Chinese history made during Jansen's internment (1942-1945); also, a circular to all British subjects resident in the Canton Consular District no 1 (1949) Jansen was interned on Hornam Island shortly after Pearl Harbour and stayed there for the rest of the war. He was part of the NZ Presbyterian Mission based at Canton (Guangzhou). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1945

By: Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s

Reference: PAColl-3488

Description: Photograph of internees and guards with the Swiss consul, Mr Hoffmeister, taken at the request of the guards before they left at the end of the war. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Subjects named on back of print.

Date: [ca 1910-1955], 1941-1949

By: Jansen, Nancy, active 1940s-2000s

Reference: MS-Group-0465

Description: Contains Elwyn George Jansen's passport for the period 1946-1955 and a poem written by Anne Lilburn, a Presbyterian missionary nurse, during internment in Canton in 1941-1945 which was given by Lilburn to Jansen. Also contains papers of E H Langford including a small amount of correspondence consisting of two letters concerning railways matters, a letter from M J Savage dated Feb 1937 thanking Langford for his letter and a letter from Walter Nash dated March 1955 thanking Langford for reports supplied; his passport; a share certificate for `New Zealand Labour Newspapers Limited', 1946; a certificate dated Dec 1945 showing that Langford had flown the Indian Ocean by the `Kangaroo air service'; a card showing that Langford had been appointed a Justice of the Peace, 1943; New Zealand Education Department certificate of proficiency, 1910 and other miscellaneous material. Further papers of Anne Lilburne and E G Jansen relating to internment in Canton during World War II; and translation of testimonial to the work of Dr Owen Eaton presented to his parents Mr and Mrs C Eaton (1939) Source of title - Supplied title During WWII the men of the mission were interned on Hornam Island directly after Pearl Harbour and were joined 6 months later by the women and children Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs N Jansen, Waikanae, 1994, Sep 1999 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - One photograph of internees 1945 - To Photographic Archive - Two photographs of internees, one group of four before they were interned, another, larger group after several years of internment.