Ex-prisoners of war

Date: 1990-1998

From: Watkins, Charles James, 1919- :Photographs relating to New Zealand Ex-Prisoners of War Association (Wellington branch)

Reference: PA1-f-274

Description: Photographs of events relating to New Zealand Ex-Prisoners of War Association, Wellington Branch, 1990-1998. Includes luncheons; National Reunion, Christchurch, Feb 1991; reunion for Nino Bixio survivors, Levin, 17 Aug 1992; RSA clubs; veterans' homes. Accompanying material - List of identifying individuals in each photograph in the album Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 32 x 45 cm

Date: 1941-1997

By: New Zealand Ex-Prisoners of War Association

Reference: MS-Group-0687

Description: Includes financial records, correspondence, minute books, luncheon lists, and papers relating to British and Australian branches, the Association's magazine `Pow-wow', reunions of the Association and also the 25th Battalion and the Wellington Regiment Other Titles - Pow-wow Quantity: 3 box(es). 17 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 1.10 Linear Metres. Finding Aids: Item listings are supplied in boxes 98-018-1 and 98-018-2.

Date: 2022

By: Bates, John, 1939?-

Reference: MSX-10206

Description: Biography of Peter Bates (1920-1993) written by his nephew, John Bates, and self-published in 2022. Titled 'Peter's Reflections' and subtitled 'On joining the Taranaki Herald, Going to War, Capture, Escape, Swiss Internment and his later life'. The book includes transcriptions of Peter Bates' war and later life diaries and letters, copies of photographs, maps, and illustrations. Comprises 25 chapters and 332 pages excluding title page, contents, and index. The biography covers such topics as Bates' employment at the Taranaki Herald; the declaration of war; his military training at New Plymouth, Waverley, and Trentham; the voyage to and arrival in Egypt; joining the 6th Brigade, 25th Battalion; 2nd Division involvement in the Mediterranean and Syria; his capture and experience as a prisoner of war; his escape to Switzerland; his repatriation to New Zealand; and his life post-war. Title supplied by Library. Bates, a journalist from New Plymouth, embarked from New Zealand for the Middle East in September 1941. He was captured in the Western Desert in July 1942 and was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Italy. When Italy capitulated he escaped to Switzerland and was repatriated to New Zealand in December 1944. John Bates is Peter Bates' nephew and was given copies of Peter's diaries and letters by Peter's children prior to his passing in 1993. He wrote this biography at Peter's suggestion. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Hardcover volume bound in blue cloth with gold embossed lettering, 300 x 220 x 25 mm.

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: 8 December 1982 - 08 Dec 1982

From: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project

By: Molloy, Margaret Mary, 1909-2007; McCutchan, Ailsa Douglas, 1920-2008

Reference: OHInt-0014/120

Description: Miss Margaret Mary Molloy trained as a nurse at Auckland Hospital, registering in 1936. Did maternity training at Waikato Hospital 1939. In 1940 applied for entry to Army Nursing Service but had to wait 5 years during which time she worked mainly in women's surgical ward at Auckland Hospital. Interview concentrates on 12 months nursing service on the Hospital ship, `Maunganui' (1945). Describes degree to which hospital matrons controlled career development of individual nurses under them. Explains how Army gave nurses very little preparation when they first entered. Describes: feelings of 1st voyage to Admiralty Islands; nurses' quarters; nursing facilities on ship; facilities for leisure and recreation; nursing team - nursing auxiliaries, orderlies and VADs; suicide plane on VJ Day - many casualities; trip to Hong Kong and Formosa where many ex-prisoners of war were picked up - some patients had emotional disturbances; small TB ward on the 3rd voyage; Christmas 1945 which was spent on Red Sea. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Tauranga Other - limited biographical material available Interviewer(s) - Ailsa McCutchan Venue - Tauranga Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000043; OHLC-000036 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1052 (hand-written).

Date: 1979-1987

By: Mills, Gerald Fleming, 1912-1997

Reference: MS-Papers-11048

Description: Correspondence, newspaper cuttings and articles concerning compensation claims for New Zealand POWs who were illegally interned in concentration camps in Germany during World War II Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Gerald Mills, Kilbirnie, Wellington, 1987

Date: [ca 1940s-1950s]

From: Blow, Eric Harold, 1908-1974: Collection relating to World War Two, study and rugby

Reference: Objects-1216

Description: A black ribbon with “N.Z. Ex Prisoners of War Assn.” embossed on it in white capital letters. Has a barbed wire insignia. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 object(s) 1 black ribbon. Physical Description: 76 x 5 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069815-F

Description: Two New Zealand ex-prisoners of war chat to New Zealand Liaison Officer in Brussels transit centre. Photograph taken 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive information - official caption Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069833-F

Description: New Zealand ex-prisoners of war outside Brussels leave hostel prior to leaving for England. Photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive information - official caption Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069820-F

Description: Former non-commissioned officers and other ranks prisoners of war from NZEF and RNZAF wait for the next stage of their transport home from Brussels, photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive information - Library client and official caption Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069830-F

Description: Former prisoners of war wait at Brussels for the next stage in their transport back to the United Kingdom, photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive information - Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: 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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069831-F

Description: Former New Zealand prisoners of war from Oflag IX A/Z before boarding a converted Stirling bomber of RAF 570 squadron at Brussels airport for the flight back to RAF Westcott in Buckinghamshire. Photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. If the photograph was taken in April then it will be 18 April 1945 and the airfield will be Brussels Melsbroek. Source of descriptive information - Library Client and official caption. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069811-F

Description: New Zealand ex-prisoners of war in Brussels transit centre, photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069821-F

Description: Ex-prisoners of war fill in identity forms before leaving for England. Photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive information - official caption Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069825-F

Description: Former officer prisoners of war wait for the next stage of their transport home from Brussels or Leige, photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Other Titles - Source of descriptive information - Library client Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069824-F

Description: New Zealand ex-prisoners of war and New Zealand Liaison Officer in Brussels transit centre. Photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive onformation - official caption Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069810-F

Description: Four New Zealand ex-prisoners of war in Mae West life-jackets waiting to board an RAF Lancaster for a flight back to the United Kingdom. Third from the left is Driver Cole, W H. Photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive information - Official caption This plane crashed and burnt in take-off and Driver Cole, W H (third from left) went to hospital in Brussels. Remainder came to England by boat. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069812-F

Description: Liberated New Zealand prisoners of war at Brussels transit camp listen to New Zealand Liaison Officer. Photograph taken 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive information - official caption Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069828-F

Description: New Zealand officer ex-prisoners of war meet Squadron Leader Kemp of the New Zealand Mosquito Squadron, while waiting for the next stage in their transport from Belgium to the United Kingdom. Photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Source of descriptive information - note on back of print and library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm

Date: [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: Hill, Leighton McLeod, 1907-1952

Reference: 1/4-069823-F

Description: New Zealand ex-prisoners of war in Brussels on route to airport, photographed 1945 by Lee Hill. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 6 x 9 cm