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New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
- Date
- [2000-2008]
- By
- New Zealand. Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and HeritageHutching, Megan Alannah, 1957-; Parr, Alison, 1953-
- Reference
- ATL-Group-00867
- Description
Collection comprises sets of completed questionnaires by New Zealanders who served in World War II, on the Crete, North African and Italian and Pacific campaigns. Further sets of questionnaires are from New Zealanders who served on the D-Day landings in Normandy, and in the Fleet Air Arm, as prisoners of war and those who served on the home front.
There are also questionnaires from New Zealanders who were engaged with the post-war occupation of Japan (J-Force) and in the Korean War.
Most of the respondents were not selected for further interviews. However, while some replies to the questionnaire are brief, others include photographs, an audiocassette, self-published reminiscences, cuttings, scrapbooks, ephemera and expanded answers, often covering several extra pages. To retain their context, photographs have been kept with the relevant contributors' papers.
Source of title - Supplied
Arrangement: The questionnaires and related material have been divided into series reflecting the subject matter of the interviews. An additional series was created to cover material where the source was unknown.
Between 2000 and 2007 Megan Hutching and Alison Parr as oral historians at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage worked on a large oral history project interviewing men and women who had served New Zealand during the Second World War. To this end they circulated questionnaires among likely sources of information. From the replies they selected and interviewed some of respondents. The interviews were edited in association with the historian Dr Ian McGibbon, to form the basis of six books which were published by HarperCollins New Zealand between 2001 and 2007. Alison Parr also edited further books on D-Day, J-Force and the occupation of Japan, and on New Zealand participation in the Korean War.
Quantity: 69 folder(s). 0.70 Linear Metres. 1 C90 cassette(s).
Physical Description: Mss with photocopied material, printed matter, photographs, sound recording
Provenance: The records were held by the creator of the project, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage before being donated to the Library between 2004 and 2014 by the oral historians.
Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here. - See also Oral history collection for questionnaires of people who were interviewed; See also Second World War - Crete oral history project OHColl-0729.
Processing information: Folders Ms-Papers-12720-1 and MS-Papers-12720-2 were added to the collection in 2022. Therefore series 7 and series 8 folders are not in strict alphabetical arrangement by last name of interviewee.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted material - Unrestricted, with exception of MS-Papers-11799-25, which is embargoed until 2024.
- Format
- 69 folder(s), 0.70 Linear Metres, 1 C90 cassette(s), Questionnaires, Research notes, Photographs, Clippings, Serial publications, Manuscripts, Oral histories, Audiocassettes, Mss with photocopied material, printed matter, photographs, sound recording
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Questionnaires, correspondence and notes - M
Date: 2000
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: MS-Papers-7947-09
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Questionnaires, notes and correspondence - S
Date: 2001-2002
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: MS-Papers-7947-25
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Original war diary of NZ WAAC (Welfare Section)
Date: Aug 1947-Sep 1948
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: MS-Papers-11799-10
Description: Photocopy of original war diary of the Welfare Section of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps when serving in Japan as part of J-Force. Includes daily intelligence summaries, monthly summaries, social reports and some correspondence. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript (Photocopy)
Questionnaire and other documentation - John Henry Hobin
Date: 2007-2008
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: MS-Papers-11799-22
Description: As well as questionnaire includes a typescript publication 'Some extracts from their World War 2 diaries of service with the RNZAF, compiled by Harry Hobin from their secret wartime diaries. Includes items on training and service in New Zealand, Solomon Islands (including Guadacanal) and Japan (including Hiroshima)', published by J H Hobin, Auckland 2013. The extracts include material from the diary of John Merven Hobin, Harry Hobin's father, who had also served in the RNZAF. Also includes printed programme of the 'Final National Reunion' of 14 Fighter Squadron RNZAF, which served in Japan 1946-1948. Harry Hobin was the Reunion convenor. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Questionnaires and documentation
Date: 2007
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: MS-Papers-11799-26
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
George Tazewell Newton - Account of expedition to Teheran
Date: 194s, 2007
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: MS-Papers-11799-32
Description: Typescript account of an expedition of three New Zealand soldiers assigned to transport a large supply of anti-typhoid serum from Egypt to Teheran, Iran, for use in a Polish refugee camp. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Found among questionnaires, along with a covering letter. Given to Alison Parr by Eileen Avis Wilson, who had it transcribed.
Sound recording of Margaret (Betty) Morse, tape one
Date: [ca December 2003]
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: OHC-031053
Description: Margaret Morse née Burley is an ex leading Wren in the Women's Royal New Zealand Naval Service, No. 44. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). Search dates: 01/12/2003 - 23/12/2003 Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.
Questionnaires, notes and correspondence - H
Date: 2001-2002
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: MS-Papers-7947-22
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Questionnaires, notes and correspondence - Brown to Burns
Date: 2001-2002
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: MS-Papers-7947-18
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
Questionnaire and documentation - [name withheld]
Date: 2006
From: New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage : Oral history project questionnaires relating to World War II, the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War
Reference: MS-Papers-11799-25
Description: Questionnaire and documentation relating to a conscientious objector. Quantity: 1 folder(s).