Bayonets

Date: 1919 - 1924

By: Hope, Will, active 1910-1920s; Daily Mirror (Newspaper); The Communist (Newspaper); Moir, Alan, 1947-

Reference: J-043-001/021

Description: Two cartoons published in the Daily Mirror, circa 1919-1924, and nineteen published in the weekly magazine Communist, circa 1920-1923, on European political issues. Quantity: 12 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Two A4 size and 10 A3 size photocopies.

Date: 1915

From: [Ephemera relating to World War I. 1915. Folder 1]

By: Woodward & Jackson (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WI-1915-1-04

Description: Inside spread reproduces the poem by Drummer T Black of the 10th Manchester Regiment, "in honour of 'Our New Zealand boys' at the front who created such an intense feeling of enthusiasm and friendship with their splendid patriotism, amongst the Lancashire and other British regiments who met them in Egypt, as to inspire these lines." Front cover shows a New Zealand soldier with a bayonet rifle over his left shoulder, with the Union Jack flag and the Giza pyramids in the background. Back page reads: "This poem, which should be read and cherished by every New Zealander (especially when they know the conditions under which it has been written) is presented to the public of New Zealand by The Wellington Performing Musicians' Union, to assiste in augmenting the Funds for the Wounded Soldiers and Sailors". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlet folded to 209 x 120 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1941, and the Photographic Archive..

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: 1915

By: Hanna, George Patrick, 1888-1973

Reference: B-048-008

Description: Shows a six-part cartoon of the Kiwi and Koala playing rugby together, and then joining forces to fight a large turkey. Although battered, they are finally victorious. Quotes a French Officer, who describes the Australasians' actions: "The finest troops in the world could not have done better". "The Carnival Book" is shelved in ATL NZ&P: q940.477 1915. Extended Title - From The Carnival Book, by Philip Hereford. Wellington, 1915. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of published cartoon, 420 x 515 mm. Transfers: From Photographic Archive -.

Date: 1944-1945

By: New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force; Evatt, Gerald Sinclair, 1906-1981

Reference: PAColl-0338

Description: Photographs of the Japaneses capitulation in South East Asia and the Pacific, particularly Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They include a number of photographs of Japanese prisoners of war being marched to camps; the signing of surrender documents by Australian officers; painting Japan Surrenders on the underside of RAAF plane wings to inform Japanese forces; the announcement of the Japanese surrender by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Singapore; the Duke of Gloucester, Governor General of Australia, visiting troops; a Japanese tank on fire; and earlier photographs of Allied forces on Bougainville in 1944. The photographs are nearly all official Royal New Zealand Air Force and are captioned on the reverse. Also included with the collection is a copy of New Zealand Freemason frm May 1977 which includes a photograph of the NZEF Masonic Association meeting in 1918 in France.. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

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: New Zealand. National Film Unit; Marriott, (Lieutenant), active 1943

Reference: PA1-q-292

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album contains photographs on pages 1-54 (Pages 55-149 are empty). Activities include training in building of fascines and revetments for protecting trench walls; barbed wire "concertina"; excavation of command posts (part of a defensive trench system); the use of a 2" mortar; anti-tank rifle instruction; instruction in identifying enemy weapons including grenades and land mines and use of an electric mine detector. The cookery wing in action in the open air; artillery school of instruction; signallers establishing communication & erecting a telegraph pole; use of a 25-pounder; bayonet practice; medical training including rescue of wounded, use of an improvised stretcher, improvised raft for a river crossing carrying the stretcher, transfer to an ambulance, and finally a view of an actual open-air operation. The arrival of Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, shown with New Zealand dignitaries (p 18). Men and women who have returned on furlough parading through Wellington on their way to a luncheon given in their honour by the RSA (p 19-21, 38-40); the arrival of repatriated Prisoners of War being greeted by friends and family in Wellington (p 33-36) A huge crowd celebrating the victory over the Italians at Liberty Corner, on the intersection of Hunter Street, Featherston Street and Lambton Quay (Friday 3rd September 1943) Ceremonies at an undentified marae including Maori dance, haka, poi dances and speeches by military officers. Pages 28-30 show the visit of a British Military Mission to the Forest & Jungle Warfare Wing of the Army School of Instruction, with demonstrations of jungle training. Women are shown with views of the Women's Land Service (Land Army), and also as Post & Telegraph drivers collecting huge bags of mail from a ship. Infantry students at the Army School, Trentham are shown in a river crossing exercise near Foxton, building rafts big enough to carry people, vehicles and weaponry. Launching a fuel barge built at the Wellington Patent Company's shipyards at Evans Bay, where the ceremony was performed by Managing Director Mr Jamieson. Pages 49-53 show photographs of Polish refugee children arriving and settling into the refugee camp at Pahiatua. Pages 53 and 54 show the official opening of a new Model Kindergarten in Hospital Road, Newtown (Saturday 18th November, 1943), opened by the Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Also present were the Labour MP for Wellington South, Robert Mckeen and his wife Jessie Mckeen, Mrs J A Doctor (President of the Free Kindergarten Association), and Dr Clarence Beeby (Director of Education). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 438-598 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: 1965 - 1972

Reference: Eph-E-VIETNAM-1960s-01

Description: Pink poster shows an illustration of two soldiers running forward in battle, one with a bayonet and one with a machine gun. A jet aeroplane flies in the sky far above. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 890 x 585 mm.

Date: 1915

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1915-02

Description: Programme organised by Canterbury military officers has the programme in the centre spread. Items on the outdoor afternoon programme included a massed bayonet display, jiu jitsu display, riding at gibbets, Lloyd Lindsay, horseback tug of war, mounted wrestling, Captain McLaglen cutting sheep in half at full gallop (probably hanging dead on gibbet). The evening performers and producers included W C Wauchop, the Christchurch Quartette Party (W A Cookson, G E March, A Millar and R E Vincent), conductor Dr J C Bradshaw, the Christchurch Glee and Madrigal Society conducted by Sidney Williamson; Frank McDonald, C Ingle, Leopold McLaglen (jiu jitsu, bayonet feats). Items included displays of jiu jitsu and of bayonet fighting, and there are photographs of bayonet techniques on five pages of the booklet. Also includes photographs of British Sikhs, Pathans, Chinese, Malays and Goorkhas trained by Captain McLaglen in the science of Yawara (jiu jitsu); the Gloucestershire Regiment, the 1st Munster Fusiliers Regiment, and officers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force trained by Captain McLaglen. Text instructions as to how to fight with a bayonet are on the back inside page, and there is a full-length portrait of Captain Leopold McLaglen on the back cover. The front cover shows the Union Jack and the New Zealand flag, under a royal crown. Captain Leopold McLagen is described as "inventor of the system of bayonet fighting used in the present war by British troops". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 283 x 225 mm.

Date: 1915

By: Coulls, Culling & Company

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1915-01

Description: Programme organised by Wellington railway workers shows the programme in the centre spread. Performers included McLaughlin's Orchestra, singers Charles Clarkson and Courtenay [Courteney] Mohr, Captain Leopold McLaglen (world jiu jitsu champion), singers Mina Caldow and Charles Hickmott, W McLaughlin (conductor) and accompanist Audrey Gibson. Items included displays of jiu jitsu and of bayonet fighting, and there are photographs of bayonet techniques on five pages of the booklet. Also includes messages from Lord Liverpool (Governor), prime minister William Massey, MP Sir Joseph Ward, and Minister of Defence Hon James Allen. The back cover reproduces the words of the song "England's call" which was to be sung by Mina Caldow. The front cover shows the Union Jack and the Belgian flag on which is superimposed a scroll with the words "Help the starving Belgians". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 300 x 237 mm.

Date: 1915

By: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WI-Patriotic-1915-03

Description: Programme organised by New Zealand Patriotic Society has the programme in the centre spread. Items on the outdoor afternoon programme included a massed bayonet display, jiu jitsu display, riding at gibbets, Lloyd Lindsay, horseback tug of war, mounted wrestling, realistic sham battle, Captain McLaglen cutting sheep in half at full gallop ("Catain McLaglen will endeavour to break his previous world's record by cutting eight sheep in half at a single gallop"). The evening performance included similar items. Booklet includes photographs of bayonet techniques, photographs of British Sikhs, Pathans, Chinese, Malays and Goorkhas trained by Captain McLaglen in the science of Yawara (jiu jitsu); photographs of the New Zealand forces landing at Samoa and hoisting the British flag, New Zealanders in Egypt, "out Indian allies" with Captain McLaglen, landing place at the Dardanelles, wounded soldiers from the dardanelles convalescing in Cairo, the Gloucesrshire regiment and officers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force trained by Captain McLaglen. Text instructions as to how to fight with a bayonet are on the back inside page, and there is a full-length portrait of Captain Leopold McLaglen on the back cover. The front cover shows the Union Jack and the New Zealand flag, under a royal crown. Captain Leopold McLagen is described as "inventor of the system of bayonet fighting used in the present war by British troops". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 280 x 222 mm.

Date: October 1995

From: Hodgson, Trace, 1958-: [20 original political and social cartoons, drawn for Metro magazine ca 1995-2001].

By: Hodgson, Trace, 1958-

Reference: C-185-007

Description: Cartoon is in two parts. The panel on the left, dated 1945, shows an armed soldier saying "Come on, lads, let's strike a blow against fascism!!". The panel on the right, titled 1995 East Timor, shows two New Zealanders in Air Force uniform standing by as Indonesian soldiers shoot at local East Timorese. One of the soldiers says "Thank you, Kiwis, for supporting our fascist regime ...". May refer to riots in East Timor between September and October 1995, and the subsequent criticism of Indonesian authorities by Amnesty International. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - HODGSON; Recto - bottom left - Metro. October 1995 p.145 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and coloured pencil on paper, 300 x 510mm

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: 1900 - 1901

By: Anah Dunsheath Antiquarian Booksellers; Goldie, Charles Frederick, 1870-1947

Reference: C-124-057

Description: Shows a group of the New Zealand Contingent charging on foot, with bayonets, down the slope from the top left, towards a group of Boers who are crouched or lying wounded at the lower right. There is a hill in the right distance. The location was later known as New Zealand Hill, and is near Slingersfontein. Lieutenant Hughes is John Gethin Hughes. Taken from a painting by C F Goldie, advertised in the Auckland Weekly News special Christmas number for 1900, painted from a sketch by one of the New Zealanders who took part in the battle, and supplied by the paper's War Correspondent in South Africa. Title taken from caption on the back of framing board. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on paper stuck to board, 380 x 535 mm.

Date: 1916

From: Lynch, Frank Guy Ennis, 1895-1967 :[Caricatures and cartoons relating to the European War. 1916]

Reference: A-224-008

Description: Shows two allied (Anzac) soldiers inside the hut of a sleeping enemy (German ?), while a third allied soldier lights the scene with a torch from outside. One of the two soldiers inside is dangling a sausage over the face of the sleeping enemy, whilst his friend prepares to plunge a bayonet into the German's large stomach. The man outside calls in, advising them to put on a gas-bag before puncturing the stomach. Extended Title - Published in: Shell Shocks... London: Jarrold [1916 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink sketch, 235 x 315 mm

Date: 1917

From: Calman, Gordon Jamieson, b 1893 :Tiki-talk ; epistles of the Corinthians ; souvenir, Left Wing, 23rd Rfmts ; [original drawings] / G J Calman. [1917]

Reference: A-224-019

Description: Shows a caricature of a soldier in a peaked cap, wearing a black robe with a fur collar (possibly academic garb) and walking forward to the left with his bayonet at the ready. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 179 x 128 mm.

Date: 1881

From: Hobson, Henry, fl 1881 :Album [of military photographs, cartes de visite and watercolours, Armed Constabulary, Taranaki. 1881-1882].

By: Clarke, William Henshaw, 1831-1910

Reference: E-814-008

Description: Shows an arrangement of weapons: knives, axes, pistol, rifles, swords and bayonet. These surround the space in which a group photograph by W H Clarke is inserted; it shows four members of the Government House Guard on 5 June 1881: D O'Rourke, H J Meade, H Hobson and G Webb. Other Titles - Government Extended Title - From Henry Hobson's Album of military photographs, cartes de visite and watercolours, Armed Constabulary, Taranaki, 1881-1882, page [8] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 247 mm, on page of album, with inserted photograph, 166 x 110 mm.

Date: 1938

From: Various artists :[Original and printed political cartoons by A S Paterson, J J McNamara, Minhinnick, N H McIntyre ("M"), Charles Haines, and others. 1935-1949].

Reference: B-162-004

Description: Cartoon criticising the government's lack of spending on defence. Cartoon shows an Australian "digger" standing on Australia which has spent £43 million in three years on defence. He tries, with references to their mutual support at ANZAC, to rouse the sleeping New Zealand "digger" seated on New Zealand which has neglected defence spending. The New Zealand soldier holds a toy aeroplane and a bayonet gun with a spider and its web hanging from it. Other Titles - Bayonet Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawing, 315 x 370 mm, on sheet 385 x 405 mm.

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-291

Description: Photographs of military activities and war work in New Zealand during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. Views show the manufacture of various military weapons, machinery and vehicles and the men and women involved in the work. They include munitions (manufacture of hand grenades); Bren gun carriers, airframes, building navy trawlers and mine sweepers in Auckland; airplane construction at Rongotai, at the De Havilland Aircraft Factory; making caterpillar tracks; making sten guns; and constructing army huts. People from various military and civilian groups are shown working as fitters, flight riggers, flight mechanics; aircraft maintenance; welders, camouflage nets (made by Girl Guides). Activities include army exercises (p 106-110); river crossing exercises; preparation for a dawn departure of a New Zealand Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron; army training (p 76-97); and the New Zealand Air Training Corps for elementary instruction for youths aged 16 to 18 1/2. RNZAF training includes blind flying practice, Hawker Hind training planes, aircraft maintenance, flight mechanics, and Airspeed Oxford training planes. Other activities include the planting and growing of linen flax, used in the manufacture of planes, tires, gun covers and fighting equipment; agricultural and horticural work, including using bullock teams for breaking in new ground; army manouvres (in part in Franklin area, and in winter conditions in the South Island near the Southern Alps); territorial manoeuvres; coastal defence; Home Guard training; a remedial physical education training camp for recruits suffering from foot troubles, painful backs etc.; the making of a new raft designed in NZ which could be constructed in a few minutes and was easily transported; training despatch riders on motor bikes in the snow. Women, in different organisations including Women's National Service Corps, Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the Lady Galway Guild, were engaged in driving and maintaining military vehicles; driving for Red Cross vehicles; digging trenches; on parade; as signallers; in clerical work; hospital duties; cooking and other branches of essential war work. Pages 63-75 show the arrival in New Zealand of the American forces; and pages 111-121 portray a visit to New Zealand of Australian and Netherlands personnel from the hospital ship Oranje when the NZ Government, as a mark of appreciation for their efforts in bringing Australian and New Zealand wounded troops, placed a special train at their disposal and took them to Chateau Tongariro for rest and relaxation. 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: 1915

From: [Rugby football ephemera and programmes featuring New Zealand national, provincial or club teams. 1900-1929].

By: Woodville, Richard Caton, 1856-1927

Reference: Eph-B-RUGBY-1915-01-front

Description: Front cover shows a reproduction of a sketch by Richard Caton Woodville, of a wounded soldier standing with his bayonet ready. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on programme cover, 304 x 180 mm.

Date: 1941

From: [Ephemera up to octavo size, relating to patriotic and fundraising initiatives during World War Two]

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-WII-Patriotic-1941-02

Description: Sticker shows an illustration of a soldier wearing a lemon-squeezer hat, standing with a bayonet at the ready, His image is superimposed on a map of New Zealand, on which are written slogan: It's yours - keep it! Now or never! Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on sticker, 90 x 71 mm.