Auchinleck, Claude John Eyre (Sir), 1884-1981

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-295

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and Egypt during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many of the personnel identified are listed above, but group portraits in which individuals are named, are not individually listed above. Images include a consignment of 3000 cases of apples arriving at the New Zealand Forces Club in Egypt; YMCA secretaries of the NZEF in Crete before the blitz; NZ pilots at advanced RAF training school in England; King George II of Greece inspecting troops in the Middle East, being entertained by members of the Maori Battalion, and presenting medals to the platoon acting as his bodyguard on the Greek royal family's evacuation from Crete to Egypt (p 6-11). American aid to the ANZACs, showing a function in New York celebrating the presentation of over 100 ambulances to the fighting forces in Egypt, with (on p 12-15) views in Egypt of the ambulances & mobile surgical unit; the General Hospital at Helwan, with views inside wards, and life of convalescents including a swimming carnival, picnics and yachting (p 16-20); nurses' life at the General Hospital (p 139-141). Arrival of a mobile canteen for the YMCA (p 20-21); NZ soldiers on leave in Cairo; NZ cricket team at the Gezira Sporting Club (p 23-24); Parades of NZ units reviewed by general Freyberg; A YMCA canteen service van in Crete; opening of the Lowry Hut (p 8, p 28-30, p 34-35); Rowing races between a NZ team and Cairo representative team at the Cairo River Club (p 30-31, p 67). PM Peter Fraser's tour of NZ activities in Britain; broadcasts to NZ through the BBC's New Zealand programme (p 32-33, 92-93, 124-125); the New Zealand Forces Club (p 35-39, 44); ENSA Concert Party (p 40-42); staff at NZ House in London sorting parcels from NZ for NZ personnel. Attack on Crete (p 44-53), views taken by a German photographer who was killed in Crete, including Junkers transport carriers, Axis destroyers and wrecked German planes at Maleme airport; transport ship Glengyle after the evacuation from Crete. HMS Leander (p 55-61, p 79, p 84-85), includes group of sailors & NZ officers, all identified. Maori Battalion training in the Middle East; incidents during route march; two views of the official Netherlands Indies Women's organisation in wartime who looked after NZ airmen passing through batavia (Djakarta) (P 66, 68); sports meeting at the Prince Farouk Stadium Cairo (p 68-73, 83); artillery callibrating guns (p 73-79); field ordnance worlshops; Mobile Surgical Unit; copies of paintings by war artist peter McIntyre (p 87-91); Bomber Command Operational Training Unit. Postal unit (p 94-101); wireless operator air gunners after training at the WAG course at Mountain View Air Station in Canada (all named, p 96-97); investiture conferring Greek decorations on NZ officers (p 101-102, 110-111); Kiwi Concert Party (p 103-110); manouevres in the desert; fire brigade at NZ Base Camp (p 118-122); 2nd Echelon Office keeping personal records (p 120, 122-123); camp laundry in Egypt (p 128-130); work of a Light Aid Detachment in the field; the original ANZAC Club, Singapore (p 144); training under active service conditions in desert (p 145-149); visit by NZ soldiers to a stable maintained by the Egyptian Government at Heliopolis raising Arab horses. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 782-1226. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PA1-q-296

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and England during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Includes photographs of New Zealand fighter and bomber pilots serving with the Royal Air Force, and several British Official photographs relating to New Zealand fighter pilot with the RAF, James Allen Ward, who was awarded the Victoria Cross. Most individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include a visit by NZ soldiers to stables run by the Egyptian Government at Heliopolis; a NZ military band on tour in Palestine as part of a recruiting campaign; the arrival of the first party of Women's War Service Auxiliary in Egypt, and scenes of their life in the Welfare Section and at the New Zealand Forces Club (p 7, p 146-149); and RNZAF trainees at the Air Observer School, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. Life, military training and manouevres in the Western desert; ordnance workshops; the advance in the Western Desert; a NZ medical unit, a mobile surgical unit; hospital scenes (p 100, 103-105, 111). Sporting and entertainments include a wood-chopping "Axemen's Carnival" in South England; rugby matches in the Western Desert (p 29, 37-38, 82-83, 85, 93, 101-103, 107, 109); swimming (probably at Baggush; p 38-40, 44); and Christmas celebrations in the desert, including the Kiwi Concert Party (p 122-129); and a view of the YMCA Hostle at Alexandria. Inspection of NZ reinforcements in Egypt by William J Jordan (NZ High Commissioner in London); General Auchinleck presenting decorations to NZ soldiers, and reviewing NZ troops on the eve of the Libyan Campaign (p 49-57, 111-115); the Western Desert Battle, NZers bringing in German Prisoners of War; German General von Ravenstein captured by NZ troops, and scenes of various captured German vehicles, gas masks, a Nazi whip, and weapons; the Libyan advance (p 63-72); and the Railway Construction Unit in the Western Desert. Scenes of a New Zealand fighter squadron in Malaya (p 80-81, 87-89). NZers in Tobruk (p 96-99); one view of NZers at a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany (Stalag VI B) taken by Lieutenant Rangi (p 108); NZers arriving back at Base Camp after 5 weeks of imprisonment at Bardia, some of whom are named (p 117-121); four NZ soldiers who walked from Benghazi to west of Gazala (listed above); manouevres after the Libyan Campaign. Presentation of decorations by General Freyberg to members of the 2nd NZEF in hospital; views of a NZ Spitfire Squadron operating with the RAF Fighter Command, the planes subscribed for by the people of NZ (p 138-141); reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 133-138). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 1227-1668. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1940-1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-068

Description: DA Series prints. Most include captions - Hepnez with Indian riflemen on quard; Czechoslavak Army Training Depot; NZ tanks leading United Nations parade through the streets of Cairo; Suez Canal exercises, Jul 1941; thermos bomb (booby trap); General Grant tank with sunblinds; tanks undergoing tests over barbed wire, etc; Lt Col Baird (`Lawrence of Libya') with tribesmen of a Senussi tribe in Libya; NZ Infantry Brigade landing exercises in Suez Canal area, Feb 1942; soldiers from Rhodesian and Australian forces; defence against tanks; enemy POW passing through the streets of Cairo on way to POW camps, Nov 1941; close up of a Sheik (Libya); action at Tobruk; search lights at Alexandria; Occupational Training Unit ME passing out ceremony & best cadet (T Morrison) receiving trophy from Gen Riddell-Webster; captured Italian flame-thrower, Oct 1941 Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942-1943

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Anderson, Alfred Robert, 1917-1971

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-176

Description: Series of captioned photographs taken by A R Anderson. Include: Convoy near Acre in Palestine; cooking dinner on roadside in Palestine; fort at Suani Ben Adem which was used as part of 3 NZGH; visit of Swazi band and dancers to entertain patients at 3 NZGH; tent wards in plantation; WAAC Xmas dinner at 3 NZGH Beirut, Syria, Dec 1942; Ward B6 decorated for Christmas, Dec 1942; Square and clock tower in Tripoli, Syria; Sir James Grigg and Gen Sir Maitland Wilson on visit to 3 NZGH at Suani Ben Adem. Series of photographs taken at 3 NZGH, Helmieh - Operating theatre; X Ray Dept; patients receiving massage treatment; hut wards; Wardmaster in his office; Dispensary; staff at work in laboratory; inside the cookhouse; mess rooms for patients; Officers, sergeants and men's messes; Sisters' sitting room; WWSA tent; staff at work in the Hygiene Section workshop; staff at work in carpenter's shop; visit of Gen Sir C Auchinleck (Apr 1942). Funeral of WWSA Miss Anderson of Dunedin, Apr 1942; mule train in Syria; exterior of wards A & B at 3 NZGH, Beirut, Syria; general view of Beirut; rugby match (Jan 1943); Occupational Dept at 3 NZGH, Beirut; patient being admitted to 3 NZGH, Beirut (Jan 1943); military funeral at Beirut War Cemetery, Aug 1942; nurses of 3 NZGH playing basketball at Beirut (Feb 1943); Temple of Bacchus and remains of the cornice of Temple of Jupiter, Baalbeck, Syria; HMHS Llandovery Castle in Tripoli harbour, Tripolitania, Mar 1943; unit marching down to position on Tripoli-Suani road for visit of the King, Jun 1943. Series of photos taken at 3 NZGH, Suani Ben Adem, Aug 1943 - Tented wards; laboratory; soya stoves outside cookhouses; POWs cutting firewood; patient receiving treatment in saline bath; unit administration tents; one of the kitchens; operating theatre. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1861-1945

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2976

Description: Comprises selected papers from the log of HMS Sutlej, the Gaskell collection and letters of bishops and deans, the full autobiography of A H Gibson, and the selected papers of Sir Henry Roscoe, Samuel Alexander and Sir Claude Auchinleck Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1941-1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-288

Description: Official photographs from World War II, very few of which have captions. Scenes show activities relating to the New Zealand forces in the Middle East in 1941 and the beginning of 1942, including military training in the desert; social life and daily life in camps, scenes in hospitals, sporting activities and social clubs. Military leaders include General Freyberg, Brigadier Alexander Smith Falconer, Lieutenant-Colonel A S Wilder, Howard Karl Kippenberger and Field-Marshall Auchinleck. The New Zealand High Commissioner in Britain visited the tropps and can be seen inspecting the New Zealand reinforcements at Base Camp, Maadi. Several photographs show Charles Hazlitt Upham (awarded the Victoria Cross), including one portrait painted by war artist Peter McIntyre. Other paintings by Peter McIntyre are reproduced on pages 147-149, portraying the part played by New Zealanders in the Libyan offensive of November-December 1941, which McIntyre made from sketches drawn quickly on the field of battle. They include one of the NZ Infantry going into the attack at Sidi Rezegh; New Zealanders at Fort Capuzzo; the tank battle at Belhamid; New Zealand field workshops in the desert; an anti-tank gun in action at Sidi Rezegh; and tank "cavalry" scouting for Rommel's columns in the desert. The second Libyan campaign is seen in numbers of photographs. These include the advance into Libya after Fort Apuzzo fell to a New Zealand column; New Zealand engineers building a wharf at Tobruk; and German and Italian prisoners of war. Items captured include guns, German gas masks, German motor cycles, tanks, Nazi flags, and a captured whip. Three photographs show a group of four New Zealanders who fled from Benghazi on foot when unable to use vehicles after the road was cut behind them. They took about 11 days to walk 250 miles across the desert, gaining help from Arab groups on the way. (Drivers S G McKinnon (Auckland), A W Blackburn (Auckland), Corporal S Roa (Auckland) and Sergeant T W Gill (Wellington)). On pages 133-136 Middle East scenes show a group of New Zealanders arriving back at the N.Z. Base Camp after 37 days imprisonment in Bardia, Libya. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1943, 1999

From: Cox, Geoffrey Sandford (Sir), 1910-2008 : Papers

Reference: 2003-005-8/05

Description: Copies of the Geographic, the NZ Army Journal (1999), and a supplement to the London Gazette, containing a report by General Auchinleck on the North African campaign (1948). Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 5 Oct 1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02092-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, talks with Trooper R J Moore, DCM, of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) in Egypt during World War II. Taken in Cairo on 5 October 1941 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: Feb 1940-1944

From: Gentry, William George (Sir), 1899-1991: Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1767

Description: Photograph album compiled by Sir William Gentry. Contents relates to his military service in World War II, 1940 to 1944. Photographers are unidentified. - Contains scenes from military life in Egypt (Feb 1940-1944), Greece (March 1941), Libya (Nov-Dec 1941, Jan-Feb 1943), and Syria (Mar-Jun 1942). These include the arrival of the first and third contingents in Egypt and the officers' mess, baths, accommodation, and club at Maadi Camp. Troops on route to Greece on board 'HMS York' and the arrival at Piraeus. Italian prisoners from Albania in Athens and military conference with Greek military. Gun emplacements on the Metaxas Line and at Olympus Pass, German parachutists landing, Souda Bay following an air attack, training at Bagush (Oct 1941). Images from Libya feature convoys, desert battles, and gun emplacement at Sidi Rezegh as German tanks approach (1 Dec 1941). Syrian images feature the camp at Mutruh, including 'Freyberg Street', and various images from Minqur Qaim, including Freyberg's car and caravan, and an unidentified figure writing order to withdraw to Alamein. Images from the Alamein Line (Jul-Sep 1942) include the visit of Winston Churchill, troop inspections, Gentry getting award from General Bernard Montgomery, divisional headquarters, military meetings, various vehicles, and lights from artillery fire at night. Further images track the pursuit of Axis forces to Libya; these images include military convoys in Bagush and Mersa Brega. Also the crossing the Wadi Tamet, troops defusing mines, and a camp in Tripoli. Final images are of war graves at El Alamein in 1944. - Album features many images of General Bernard Freyberg with whom Gentry worked closely during the campaigns in North Africa in 1941-1942. Other notable figures include Emir Abdullah I of Jordan, General Archibald Wavell, Captain Reginald Henry Portal, General Henry Maitland Wilson, Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Blamey, Marshal Alexander Papagos, Brigadier Reginald Miles, General Claude Auchinleck, General Leslie Morshead, Winston Churchill, General Bernard Montgomery Those identified with first and last name are Sam Allen, William Stevens, Keith Lindsay Stewart, Geoffrey Cox, Maurice Hope, John Grey, Jan Peart, George Herbert Clifton, Julian Gascoigne, Oliver Leese, and 'Boomer' Watkins. Those identified by surname or given name only include Stewart, King, Padre, Doug, Miles, Allen, Crump, Tennent, Kenrick, Maxell, Inglis, Weir, and George. There are many other unidentified soldiers. - Images of tourist sites and local scenes include the Sphinx, donkeys, boats on the Nile River, scenes from Jaffa, Jerusalem in 1941 (Omar Mosque, Old City, Wailing Wall, Jaffa Gate) and a nearby village, Sweet Water Canal, the road to Helwan, local women carrying produce on the Maadi golf course, Mt Olympus, Athens and the Acropolis, Syrian Bedouin, camels, snow in Lebanon, ruins in Palmyra and Baalbek. Also a blossoming tree. - Newspaper clippings include an article detailing the New Zealand Forces withdrawal from Crete and service awards for campaigns in Greece, Crete, Libya, and Egypt; recipients of awards include Gentry (Order of the British Empire and Distinguished Service Order), Colonel George Herbert Clifton, Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Fairgrieve Allen, and Captain Walter Wynne Mason. Contains clipping on Gentry succeeding the position of General Staff Officer and a poem by Philip Youngman-Carter titled 'Rain In the Desert'. General Freyberg's near capture in Libya and evasion of German aircraft fire in Crete is also covered, as is the welcome of troops back to Egypt by Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album with embossed cover

Date: 19 Feb 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02394-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, decorating Matron Doris I Brown with an Associate of the Royal Red Cross (A R R C) ribbon at Maadi, Egypt, during World War II. Taken 19 February 1942 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 19 Feb 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02398-F

Description: Lieutenant W F Liley receives the Military Cross from General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, at Maadi, Egypt, during World War II. Taken 19 February 1942 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 4 Nov 1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02168-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, talking to Brigadier Lindsay Merritt Inglis and General Bernard Freyberg. Taken at Baggush on 4 November 1941 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 21 Feb 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02407-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, talking with New Zealand General Officer Commanding, General Bernard Freyberg, during manoeuvres after the Libyan Campaign, World War II. Taken in Egypt on 21 February 1942 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 4 Nov 1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02164-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, decorating Major R J Lynch with the Military Cross during presentation of awards to members of a NZ brigade in the Western Desert. Taken at Baggush on 4 November 1941 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 19 Feb 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02399-F

Description: General view of awards ceremony with General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, presenting decorations to New Zealanders at Maadi, Egypt, during World War II. Taken 19 February 1942 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 19 Feb 1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02397-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, decorates F Bowes with the Order of the British Empire at Maadi, Egypt, during World War II. Taken 19 February 1942 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 4 Nov 1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02172-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, talking with New Zealand officers on the parade of NZ Division troops on the eve of the Libyan Campaign. Taken at Baggush on 4 November 1941 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: Nov 1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02938-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, talking with New Zealand troops giving a demonstration on a wire assault course in Egypt, during World War II. Taken circa November 1941 by a British official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 5 Oct 1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-01949-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, examining some of the defensive armaments on one of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) patrol vehicles. Photograph taken in Cairo on 5 October 1941 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 4 Nov 1941

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-02170-F

Description: General Auchinleck, Commander in Chief of the Middle East Forces, talking with New Zealand officers on the parade on the eve of the Libyan Campaign. Taken at Baggush on 4 November 1941 by an official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative