Korean War. New Zealand. K Force training and departure

Series of photographs taken by E Woollett (Linton), and Mr Walker (cricket) of National Publicity Studios. All contain captions.

Training at Linton - Exercises with poles; confidence course; preliminary battle training; class room lecture (Capt E R Firth); map reading (Eric Eves & McLeod brothers); route march; sten gun instruction (Bruce Dick, Roy Saunders and Phillip Hansen); first parade.

Portraits of - Colonel Thornton (CO Linton Military Camp); John Brathwaite and Tom Fraser (recent English immigrants); 2nd Lt R W Odlin (English immigrant); 2nd Lt N L Miller & 2nd Lt C Gardiner; Roy Hugh McKenzie (padre); Charles Bell (ex Maori Battalion); B A Corbett; Noel and Douglas Bevins of Palmerston North.

Departure for and arrival at Linton - Assembled for transport; group of officer recruits (Miller, Davis, Johnson, Gardiner, Odlin, Mason, Moloughney, Llewellyn, Stanbridge & Petersen); Wellington Contingent on platform at Wellington railway station prior to boarding train for Linton; E G Eves & R Churcher on board the train; McClelland & Tews being farewelled by the Tews sisters; G A Bramley being fitted for fatigue drills by Cpl Ratapu; dental check-up for D J Anderson with WAAC Corporal E A Nairn and Lt/Col W M Ford; R E Christensen receiving his rifle and equipment.

Three photographs taken during second cricket test between England and NZ at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, March 1951

Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).