GROUP
Series 2 World War One
- Date
- 1915-1919
- Reference
- Series-5205
- Description
Papers relate to New Zealand servicemen and women who served overseas during World War One. Includes diaries and letters written during the war and acquired by Brent Mackrell as a military collector.
Quantity: 9 folder(s).
- Part of
- Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
- Format
- 9 folder(s)
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Letters of William H Johns to his family while serving in World War One
Date: 6 Feb 1915-20 Nov 1917
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MS-Papers-11253-32
Description: Letters written by Johns to his parents and brother, Clive, while on active service.The letters begin when he was in Zeitoun Camp, Egypt. On 5 Jul 1915 he was writing from the front lines where he was wounded. The next letter was written from No 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, 12 Sep 1915. The letters recomence on 15 Jul 1916 from Featherston Military Camp. In Dec 1916 he sailed from New Zealand and joinded the New Mounted Rifle Brigade in Palestine. The last letter was written from Palestine, 20 Oct 1917. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
A Clive Johns, fl 1918 - Diaries
Date: 1917-1918
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MSX-8898
Description: Diaries kept by A Clive Johns, 9th Hawkes Bay Company, 1st Battalion, Wellington Infantry Brigade while on active service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War One. The diaries commence on 1 Jan 1917 while Johns was undergoing training at Sling Camp. On 12 February he landed in France where he saw action until 17 October when he was wounded by a shell. He was hospitalised in England at Brockenhurst. He left England for New Zealand aboard the hospital ship `Marama' on 7 April 1918. See 2003/107, MS-2003-107 for related material at the Auckland Museum Library. A C Johns books and scrapbooks are in box 23 of this collection. Quantity: 2 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss
When are you going away?
Date: [19--]
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MS-Papers-11253-26
Description: Humorous World War One poem about soldiers enlisting and being sent overseas to fight the Germans. Author is not identified. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript
Letter to commissioned officers on preparidness for overseas operations
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MS-Papers-11253-25
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
ANZAC at Gallipoli; New Zealand's Roll of Honour
Date: [ca 1915-2005]
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MSZ-1582
Description: Scrapbook of research papers relating to New Zealand's involvement in the Gallipoli Campaign. Also `New Zealand's Roll of Honour, 1915', published by the Auckland Weekly News Physical Description: Typescripts, printed matter and photographs
Letters from Clive Johns to his family while on active servive
Date: 20 Oct 1916-4 Mar 1918
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MS-Papers-11253-33
Description: The letters, written to members of his family, begin when Johns was on HMNZT no 67 (Tofua) as part of the 18th Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. After landing at Plymouth on 28 Dec 1916 Johns was sent to Sling Military Camp. In Feb 1917 he embarked for France where he took part in action on the Western Front. In June 1917 he was wounded. After treatment at No 5 Convalesant Depot in France he subsequently returned to active service. On 17 October 1917 he was injured by a shell and treated at Number Four General Hospital in France. From here he was moved to Southwark Military Hospital, London and in January 1918 he was sent to No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst. John's last communication was a telegram sent to his family in Te Awamutu, 4 March 1918, which read `Returning shortly'. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
April 25, 1915 (Heritage kit)
Date: April 1915 (ca 198-?)
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: fMS-Papers-11253-2
Description: An educational kit produced by Southdown Press, Melbourne, relating to the landings of New Zealand and Australian troops at Gallipoli, 25 April 1915. It contains fascimiles of documents relating to the landing. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photographs and printed matter (fascimiles)
Milroy, William, 1876-1934: War diary
Date: 12 Jun 1918 - 27 Jan 1919
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MSX-7957
Description: Contains observations by Milroy on the Middle East and the troops under his command. He describes voyage to Egypt and thence to Palestine, and activities of the Rarotongan Contingent there and the return voyage in 1919. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project
Mildred Salt - Diary
Date: 5 Jul 1915-10 Jan 1931
From: Mackrell, Brent, fl 2012 : Papers relating to military history
Reference: MSX-8899
Description: Main part of the diary covers the period 1915-1919 with intermittent brief entries after this date. Mildred left with a group of 79 nurses from Wellington, 11 July 1915 bound for Egypt where she served in a hospital in Cairo. In early June 1916 she left Egypt for England where she was stationed at Brockenhurst Hospital. In March 1919 she sailed back to New Zealand then returned to England again arriving in Oct 1919 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 188 digitised images