Mackesy, Charles Ernest Randolph, 1861-1925

Date: 1916 - 1917

From: [Christmas cards sent during the First World War, from and to soldiers and other service personnel. 1914-1916].

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWI-1916-06

Description: Christmas postcard (probably for 1916) shows an illustration of circular military tents on the banks of a canal, likely to be the Suez Canal. with camels and palm trees. The verso has a written message from Andrew Davidson to his mother: "An historical keepsake. Jan 3 1917. Dear Mother, I am sending you this card as a souvenir of a year's work against Turkey. On the top right hand corner can be seen the badges of the regiment with whom I am now working. The Boar's Head badge is the one used by the squadron to whom I am attached. Round the emblem you can see the names of the actions which I have taken part in. Magdhaba which took place on Dec 23rd 1916 has also to be added. Yours sincerely, Andrew Davidson" Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic print and purple pencil on postcard, 89 x 139 mm.

Date: 1910-1918

From: Cooper, Catherine Isobel, 1903-1986: Collection

Reference: MSX-9658

Description: Autograph album of Elizabeth (Bessie) Hadfield, nee Tuckey. Features mounted clippings from letters and envelopes, including letterheads, crests, addresses, signatures, and some complete letters, notes, sketches, postcards, pressed botanical specimens, medal ribbons, and photographic prints. Includes: - Autograph, and registered letter from Karlsruhe, Germany, addressed to "Queen Sophie of Sweden". Sophia of Nassau (1836-1913) was Queen consort of Sweden. - Printed card with manuscript note of Miss Waldegrave, 4 Park Square, Regent's Park. - Engraved crest, and signature of Lord Radstock - Engraved crest of Bentinck, and note dated 2 May 1910. - Note by Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948) on printed letterhead of Faraday House, dated 3 April 1910. - Note by Mina Hamilton on printed letterhead of Knoyle House, Salisbury, dated 4 April 1910. - Envelope addressed to Countess Haga, postmarked Munich 9 May 1910. - Note from Annette Liverpool, dated 2 July 1914 - Letter from Francis Redwood, dated Wellington, 13 May 1913. - Signature of Massey and printed letterhead 'Prime Minister's Office, Wellington' dated 16 July 1912. - Signature of Godley, and printed letterhead of Department of Defence, dated 15 August 1914. - Manuscript poem by E Quinn. - Various inscriptions by military personnel dated 1915-1916 - Botanical specimen mounted with note "From Hebron, Palestine, 1918". - Printed Christmas card from Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, dated Palestine, Xmas 1918. - Mounted photographic print of Trentham, 1915. - Mounted photographic print of memorial. - Postcard of "Star Amphitheatre, Balmoral, Sydney". - Photographic prints of military personnel, horses, including some named, and camp in Amria [Amiriyeh, Iran]. - Postcard of "Alexandria. - Garden and Monument to Nubar Pacha.", from Harold C Hall to Mrs E Hadfield in Wellington. - Two pieces of medal ribbon, Military Medal 1920 and 1914-15 Star awarded to J WIlkinson of Auckland Mounted Rifles. - Printed 1917 Christmas card from The Camel Corps - Postcard - "Season's Greetings from Colonel C E R Mackesy and Officers of the Auckland Mounted Rifles". - Postcard "Heliopolis - Panoramic view". - Printed card of 10th Battalion, Jack Marshall. - Photographic postcards titled "Zepp Wreckage Series A". - Letter on 'New Zealand Expeditionary Forces' printed letterhead paper dated 1918 to Mrs H S Hadfield in Marton from her son. Also includes various sketches and illustrations, and lists of signatures. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Album of autographs, photographs, sketches and ephemera, 18 x 17 cm, with some loose material laid in.

Date: [ca 1916]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 12

Reference: PAColl-6348-24

Description: Charles Ernest Randolph Mackesy, circa 1916. Photographer unidentified. Dated assuming the subject was approximately 55 years old at the time this photograph was taken. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1913-1919]

From: Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1752

Description: Photograph album relating to nursing work and travels during World War I, probably compiled by Elizabeth Porteous of the NZANZ (New Zealand Army Nursing Service) who was awarded the ARRC (Associate Royal Red Cross). The images, which are well identified, are chiefly of Egypt and England. New Zealand Expeditionary Force hospitals and convalescent homes are featured, as are scenes of the local community and tourist sites. There are also a few images documenting the journey aboard hospital ships. Views of Heliopolis, Egypt, include the Sultana's Palace, Luna Park (the site of the Australian Auxillary Hospital), and the Heliopolis Palace Hotel (the site of the No.1 Australian General Hospital). Views of Luxor, Egypt, include temples and the Colossi of Memnon. Views of Cairo, Egypt, include the Kasr-el-Nil Bridge, zoological gardens, Barrage Gardens, street scenes, and a military hospital in the Citadel. Views of Aboukir Bay, Egypt, show an old fort, and a group of nurses relaxing in the ocean. Views of Alexandria, Egypt, include catacombs and exhibits in a museum. Views of Pont de Koubbeh, Egypt, show an exterior view of the New Zealand General Hospital, nurses' home, and patients from Ward I and Ward IA. A mansion in Sandwich Bay, Kent, England, called 'Rest Harrow', possibly being used as a hospital. Named figures include 'Miss Plunket with Belinda', and 'Miss [Toombe?], Matron'. Images taken at No. 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Forest Park, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England, show patients, staff, grounds and buildings including Brookside. Also people skating on a frozen lake. Photographs of troops and nurses taken onboard hospital ship 'Maheno' (identified as 'Mahena') and 'Ruapehu'. Views of Amiens, France, include views of the Somme River, and military tents. A postcard of 'Le Lycee de Jeunes Filles' (a building). Christmas celebrations at an unidentified military hospital. Views of the interior of a surgical theatre, with staff. Views of Codford, Salisbury Plain, England, include No.3 New Zealand General Hospital and Army Training Camp; a cemetery, thatched cottages and streets in surrounding area; a postcard of Old Wardour Castle, Wiltshire, published by R Wilkinson & Co, Trowbridge. Images of an unidentified woman with a baby identified as Shirley. Two images clipped from newspapers, one showing two nurses, with the caption 'Miss FA Adams and Miss Maud Mitchell, two nurses who are to accompany the Coronation Contingent to London', and the other depicting soldiers wounded in the battle of the Somme, on the deck of an unidentified hospital ship enroute to Auckland. A set of four photographs of a flag unfurling ceremony at the New Zealand General Hospital, Pont de Koubbeh, Cairo, ca December 1915. Named figures are Lady Maxwell, Colonel Parkes, and Colonel Mackesy. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hard-covered photograph album, with the title 'Snapshots', 17 x 23 cm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2063: Mackrell, Brent, 1939-: Collected papers relating to war and other topics.

Date: 1916-1917

From: Powles family : Papers

Reference: PA1-o-813

Description: This album relates to the British campaign against the Turks in north-eastern Egypt and Palestine, 1916-1917. Charles Powles compiled a detailed record of his experience of these events up to the taking of Jerusalem in albums PA1-q-604, PA1-q-605. This Album should be read in relation to them. They are more of a sequential record of the military campaign; this has a greater focus on people and scenic places. It begins with Cairo, then moves north and finishes in Jaffa. Jaffa was in control of the British forces by November 1917, but British possession of the town was not secured until late December, after the capture of Jerusalem. Because Jerusalem does not appear in this album, the Jaffa pictures were probably taken in November 1917. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).