Mines (Military explosives)

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Tremain, Garrick 1941-:61 cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times between 10 Octobe...

Date: 2001

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-661-001/061

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Quantity: 61 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies A4 size

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South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. Survey Company :El Taqa, sheet No. 4 [map]. Surveye...

Date: 1939 - 1944

From: Baker, Frederick (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1908-1958 :Maps related to the North African Campaign, World War, 1939-1945

By: Baker, Frederick, 1908-1958; Baker, Edna Mavis, 1909-1987; Baker, Francis Gordon Frederick, active 1989; South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. Survey Company; South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. 46 Survey Company; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. 514 Field Survey Company

Reference: MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39520

Description: A base map of the the El Taqa area, south-west of El Alamein, has overprinting of Eighth Army artillery positions and defences and detailed notes refer to these. Military conventional signs are referred to in key on the reverse pf the map. Minefields are prominently marked. The terrain is described in English and a note states that the terrain is traversable by mechanical vehicles except where soft surfaces and steep slopes are marked. Coverage of this map is from the area north of the mountain Gebel Sanhur to Quyburet 'Awaila and Hatiyet el Taiha. The 'Purple' grid is referred to, and instructions are given to work out grid references. Includes map index to adjoining sheets and a glossary of names of features in romanised Arabic translated into English. Stamped centre left of map: Not to be published Printed at centre right of map: This sheet is gridded with 'Purple Grid' based on Long 27 [degrees] E. Printed at top left of map: This supersedes defences overprint dated 23 Sept. 1942 Printed on bottom left: M.D.R. [Middle East Drawing and Reproduction] 518/153 2734 Printed at bottom left: Defences positioned by Det. 514 Fd. Svy. Coy R.E. See record for the World War II map folder at MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39541 Accompanied by a canvas and leather combined message case and map bag. See MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39542 Other Titles - 1:50 000 Daba - Alexandria Other Titles - Daba Alexandria 1:50 000 series, sheet 4 El Taqa. Defences overprint 16 Oct 1942 Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Baker was Commander of the 28th Battalion (Maori Battalion) when engaged in active service in North Africa Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, coloured, scale 1:50 000, 42 x 43 cm., sheet 62.3 x 49.5 cm. Provenance: Owned by Frederick Baker and donated by Gordon Baker, November 1989 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - from MS-Group-0079. Deed of gift at 10/11 dated 22 Nov 1989.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :The N.Z.F.A. hopes that F.I.F.A. will permit the world...

Date: 1981

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-792

Description: Shows three scenes. In the top right a helicopter hovers above the pitch providing an escape route for the referee. In the lower left the referee is wearing a special camouflage suit which allows only his head, hands and boots to be visible. In the lower right the players have to be warned not to step on the landmines which have been placed between the pitch and the spectators. Refers to crowd disturbances at Mt Smart stadium on 10 October in which the referee was attacked by spectators. There was a possibility that F.I.F.A. would move the N.Z. versus Saudi Arabia match in November 1981 to a neutral location, possibly in Australia, to avoid violence. It was also suggested that the violence was a hangover from the disruptions which occurred during the 1981 Sprinbok tour of New Zealand. Extended Title - As with rugby, provided by the army perhaps - Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 450 x 320 mm

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South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. Survey Company :El Mreir, sheet No. 6 [map with ms ...

Date: 1939 - 1944

From: Baker, Frederick (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1908-1958 :Maps related to the North African Campaign, World War, 1939-1945

By: Baker, Frederick, 1908-1958; Baker, Edna Mavis, 1909-1987; Baker, Francis Gordon Frederick, active 1989; South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. Survey Company; South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. 46 Survey Company; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. 512 Field Survey Company

Reference: MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39521

Description: A base map of the the El Mreir area, south of El Alamein, has numerous pencilled annotations of positions of the 28 Maori Battalion and other battalions, with dates from July to October 1942. Numerous routes taken by the battalions are marked, detailing military manoeuvres south of El Alamein, and Alam Halfa and Burg el Arab are mentioned. Coverage of this topographic map is from the vicinity of Ruweisat to the wadi called Ragabet el Retem. Overprinting of Eighth Army artillery positions are shown as are the positions of defences and detailed notes refer to these. Military conventional signs are referred to in a key on the reverse of the map. Minefields are marked. Tracks are referred to in a key. The terrain is described in English. The 'Purple' grid is referred to, and instructions are given to work out grid references. Includes map index to adjoining sheets and a glossary of names of features in romanised Arabic translated into English. Stamped centre top of map: Not to be published Printed at centre top of map: This sheet is gridded with 'Purple Grid' based on Long 27 [degrees] E. Printed at top left of map: This supersedes defences overprint dated 23 Sept. 1942 Printed on bottom left: M.D.R. [Middle East Drawing and Reproduction] 518/151 2736 See record for the World War II map folder at MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39541 Accompanied by a canvas and leather combined message case and map bag. See MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39542 Other Titles - 1:50 000 Daba - Alexandria Other Titles - Daba Alexandria 1:50 000 series, sheet 6 El Mreir Inscriptions: Mat recto - centre right - F B - Frederick Baker's initials Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Baker was Commander of the 28th Battalion (Maori Battalion) when engaged in active service in North Africa Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, coloured, scale 1:50 000, 42 x 41 cm., sheet 62.2 x 49.5 cm. Provenance: Owned by Frederick Baker and donated by Gordon Baker, November 1989 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - from MS-Group-0079. Deed of gift at 10/11 dated 22 Nov 1989.

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Evatt, G S :Photographs of the Japanese surrender in the Second World War

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).

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Duffy, Alger, fl 1917 : Letter to his father

Date: 24 Jun 1917

By: Duffy, Algernon Neville, 1890-1971

Reference: MS-Papers-9934

Description: Comprises four pages of letter from Duffy to his father, written from Belgium and describing the explosion of a tunnel at the battle of Messines Ridge Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

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South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. Survey Company :El Diyura, sheet No. 3 [map]. Surve...

Date: 1939 - 1944

From: Baker, Frederick (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1908-1958 :Maps related to the North African Campaign, World War, 1939-1945

By: Baker, Frederick, 1908-1958; Baker, Edna Mavis, 1909-1987; Baker, Francis Gordon Frederick, active 1989; South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. Survey Company; South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. 46 Survey Company; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. 514 Field Survey Company

Reference: MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39519

Description: A base map of the the El Diyura area, south-west of El Alamein, has overprinting of Eighth Army artillery positions and defences and detailed notes refer to these. Military conventional signs are referred to in a key on the reverse of the map. Minefields are prominently marked. The terrain is described in English. Coverage of this map is from Oaret el Tafl to Quattaret el Diyura. The 'Purple' grid is referred to, and instructions are given to work out grid references. Includes map index to adjoining sheets and a glossary of names of features in romanised Arabic translated into English. Accompanied by a canvas and leather combined message case and map bag. See MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39542 Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Baker was Commander of the 28th Battalion (Maori Battalion) when engaged in active service in North Africa Other Titles - 1:50 000 Daba - Alexandria Other Titles - Daba Alexandria 1:50 000 series, sheet 3 El Diyura. Defences overprint 16 Oct 1942 Stamped centre top of map: Not to be published Printed at centre top of map: This sheet is gridded with 'Purple Grid' based on Long 27 [degrees] E. Printed at top left of map: This supersedes defences overprint dated 23 Sept. 1942 Printed on bottom left: M.D.R. [Middle East Drawing and Reproduction] 518/152 2733 Printed on bottom right: Defences positioned by Det. 514 Fd. Svy Coy. R.E. See record for the World War II map folder at MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39541 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, coloured, scale 1:50 000, 41.7 x 42.2 cm., sheet 62.2 x 49.5 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - from MS-Group-0079. Deed of gift at 10/11 dated 22 Nov 1989.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :The stable door. Military supplies to North Vietnam. 1...

Date: 1972

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-134-219

Description: United States president Richard Nixon is walking away from a stable. A bomb has been left outside the door which is inscribed 'Military Supplies to North Vietnam'. In the distance a horse has bolted. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 318 x 395 mm Provenance: Donation: .

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South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. Survey Company :El Himeimat, sheet No. 7 [map]. Sur...

Date: 1939 - 1944

From: Baker, Frederick (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1908-1958 :Maps related to the North African Campaign, World War, 1939-1945

By: Baker, Frederick, 1908-1958; Baker, Edna Mavis, 1909-1987; Baker, Francis Gordon Frederick, active 1989; South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. Survey Company; South Africa. Army. Engineer Corps. 46 Survey Company; Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. 514 Field Survey Company

Reference: MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39522

Description: A base map of the the El Himeimat area, south of El Alamein, has overprinting of Eighth Army artillery positions and defences and detailed notes refer to these. Military conventional signs are referred to in key on the reverse of the map. Minefields are prominently marked. The terrain is described in English and a note states that the terrain is traversable by mechanical vehicles except where soft surfaces and steep slopes are marked. Coverage of this map is from the area north of the mountains Qaret el Hineimat to Munqar Ralat. The 'Purple' grid is referred to, and instructions are given to work out grid references. Includes map index to adjoining sheets and a glossary of names of features in romanised Arabic translated into English. Stamped centre left of map: Not to be published Printed at centre right of map: This sheet is gridded with 'Purple Grid' based on Long 27 [degrees] E. Printed at top left of map: This supersedes defences overprint dated 23 Sept. 1942 Printed on bottom left: M.D.R. [Middle East Drawing and Reproduction] 518/155 2737 Printed at bottom right: Defences positioned by Det. 514 Fd. Svy. Coy. R.E. See record for the World War II map folder at MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39541 Accompanied by a canvas and leather combined message case and map bag. See MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39542 Other Titles - 1:50 000 Daba - Alexandria Other Titles - Daba Alexandria 1:50 000 series, sheet No. 7 El Himeimat. Defences overprint 16 Oct 1942 Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Baker was Commander of the 28th Battalion (Maori Battalion) when engaged in active service in North Africa Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, coloured, scale 1:50 000, 42 x 43 cm., sheet 62.3 x 49.5 cm. Provenance: Owned by Frederick Baker and donated by Gordon Baker, November 1989 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - from MS-Group-0079. Deed of gift at 10/11 dated 22 Nov 1989.

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Prebble album

Date: [1910s]

From: Prebble, Anne fl 1910-1978 :Photograph of Billy Tubman and album relating to World War I

By: Prebble, Anne, active 1910-1978

Reference: PA1-o-422

Description: Snapshots of men in military uniform, various scenes in and around Baghdad including mosques, camels, a pontoon bridge linking old Baghdad with new Baghdad, mines swept from the Tigris River during the advance, and a caterpillar tractor. Most places are identified. Later in the album there are photographs of the donors family and friends, unidentified in the album, but some names found on a handwritten leaflet inserted inside the front cover. Included in the album is a newspaper cutting of an unidentified young man Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover entitled `Photographs' below illustration of landscape with windmill, all in gold; 14.5 x 10.5 cm

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World War II Official album. 2115-2555

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

Reference: PA1-q-298

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in North Africa and the Pacific during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many of the group portraits are fully named in the album, many of whom are not listed above. Scenes include various views of the Kiwi Concert Party (with a named group portrait) on tour and in action, in Syria, Alexandria, Tripoli & Malta (p 1-5, 42, 137-138); New Zealanders in the RAF at Middle-Eastern stations (p 6-7, 19-23); casualties and medical officers from the El Alamein battle at a NZ military hospital, including a view of twin brothers E R & E O Riley who painted a mural while convalescing (p 8-9, 23); a group of NZ merchant seamen visited the 2nd NZEF base at Maadi with one of the soldiers at the base (A Currie, E Warner, D Duff (all from Lyttelton) and S Rogers from Wellington), with soldier W E M Cornish (also from Lyttelton). Lieutenant-General Montgomery inspecting troops and presenting awards (p 10-180 and Monty in the desert (p 63); from the Azizia region to Tripoli (p 24-36) including stacks of German bombs abandoned near Azizia, troops on leave in Tripoli, Monty visits, parades, scenes with Winston Churchill and Bernard Montgomery; inspection of troops and awards presented by General Freyberg (p 68-72, 75-76). The Libyan battle and advance to Benghazi; Xmas scenes at Maadi Camp (p 40-41), at the Helwan Hospital (p 53-54) & at Sirte (p 55-56); scenes of flooding in the desert; light naval craft in the harbour of a Western Desert port. Nursing sisters in the Western desert (p 45-49); infantry troops taking an Italian fort "Forte Giudice[?]" (p 50-51). Visit of the NZ Minister of Defence (Hon Frederick Jones (p 52-53, 84-85, 94-97, 125-127); presentation of 2 ambulances by the Hugh Baird family (Hastings) and the Sutherland Ross family (Dunedin). Clearing mines (p57-59); Divisional Signals in the desert (p 60-61); photographs taken on a German camera captured in the Sidi Barrani area (p 64-66); various sporting events including rugby championships in Tripoli (p 67-68) & Alexandria (p 72-74), hockey, tennis (p 149), swimming (p 149), and athletics in Cairo (p 127-129). An ambulance train, diesel drawn train of ambulance carriages operated by NZ engineers (p 79); NZ Spitfire fighters operating from Britain (Fl/Lt Pattison, Squad. Leader R J C Grant (DFC, DFM) & Fl/Lt Baker (DFC)); South Island airmen making a broadcast to NZ from the studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Studios in Halifax. Final phase of fighting in North Africa (p 89-93) and the surrender by General Messe, the German Chief of Staff. Scenes of the "First New Zealand Mule Pack Company" (p 129-131) for transporting ammunition and suppliesl in Tunisia; the marriage of Brigadier Kenneth MacCormick to NZ WAAC Joan Stewart Fenwick at Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings and portraits by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 100-105, 113-114), including members of the Long Range desert Group, Benghazi, Siwa, Monty, Norman Johnston (NZ Broadcasting Unit) and entry into Tripoli. NZers at Stalag 18A Germany (photo taken by A "Carl" Carlisle); passing through Gabes & Sousse; arrival of men in NZ on home leave from Egypt (p 111-113), and office scenes showing the ballot for home leave (p 139-140); British and NZ forces repatriated from Italy on a hospital ship to Alexandria (p 115-116) and a British Embassy garden party for the troops held in the British Embassy grounds in Cairo (p 121-122, 131). Captured German weapons; the end of the North African Campaign; NZers in Britain; NZ prisoners in an Italian prison camp (photo taken by one who was repatriated (L P Halle from Wanganui); celebration of Empire Day in Cairo; command performance by unites of the Allied Forces for the King of Egypt; a group at Medinine; arrival back at Base Camp of the NZ Division after 2000 mile journey from near Tunis back to Maadi after continuous campaigning for nearly a year. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 2115-2555. 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 cm.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :After the spectator trouble at the cricket test at Per...

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-093

Description: Shows cricketers walking out onto the field past the spectators who are sitting behind a fence drinking beer out of cans. One player is commenting that Cricket Association decided against a barbed wire fence and another replies that if players have to recover a ball from near the fence they should watch out for mines. Refers to English cricket team playing against Australia at Perth, and against New South Wales in Sydney. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 455 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

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World War II Official album. 1669-2114

Date: 1941 to 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-297

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. Many individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include physical training at the School of Instruction, Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 1-2, 93); scenes with His Excellency the Governor-General of NZ, Sir Cyril Newall, visiting Samoa and Fiji in 1942 (p 2-7); New Zealand members of ski units including members of the Maori Battalion at the Ninth Army Ski School in Syria; NZEF and Red Cross distribution of flour to Syrian people; parade through Aleppo. Officers, nursing sisters and Lady Freyberg at Anzac Day service at Maadi Camp in 1942; the visit of the NZ High Commissioner to a "west coast port", William Jordan and officers of NZ ships; arrival of pilots and observers for the RAF; scenes with King George VI & Queen Elizabeth visiting RAF Bomber Command, and the King watching landing exercises in Scotland. New Zealanders after withdrawing from the Libyan engagement; engineers constructing roads, lines of communication and supply in Transjordan; working with Arabs, reconstructing ancient wells; NZers in Amman. Group of NZers at Rouen sent back to Germany when arrangement with German authorities for mutual repatriation of prisoners broke down; NZ medical personnel repatriated from Italy to the Middle East under the Geneva Convention (many named); the Duke of Gloucester visiting the NZ camp at Maadi; locomotives being unlaoded on lighters and NZ engineers in their living quarters on the lighters at a Syrian port. The Pacific War Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Entertainment and sport for NZ troops in the Middle East included cricket, racing, bathing in the Dead Sea, boxing and wrestling championships. Campaign against malaria, widening and deepening drains; participation at the Western desert battle front; Visit of a party of NZers to a bandit stronghold in Syra (p 62-64); Sergeant James Allen Ward's VC with illustrations (p 71-72); Winston Churchill visiting NZers in the Western Desert (p 77-80, 82); the Alamein front; the NZ General Hospital at Beirut in Syria housed in former French barracks (p 86-90). A studio party in New York for Unted Servicement; a New York Bond Party; and later, a group of NZers in New York. RNZAF training in Canada (group portrait); NZers in North Western Alaska, and a group of wireless operators in Canada. Recipients of awards (named above); Kiwi Concert Party. Pursuit of the Axis Forces and war material abandoned by Germans and Italians (p 104-125); advance to Tripoli (p 128-138). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

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Interview with Jim and Jean Goodison

Date: 8 Aug 1994 - 08 Aug 1994

From: Great Barrier Island Oral History Project

By: Goodison, Jean Harding, 1921-2013; Goodison, Robert James, 1919-2002

Reference: OHInt-0104-44

Description: Robert James (Jim) Goodison born Whangarei 1919. Recalls boating links with Great Barrier commencing in 1925 when father bought `Little Jim', a 42.6 Logan cutter, built in 1905. Relates stories about Joe Winters and Maude Hartnell. Recalls bush tram at Whangaparapara and the bell from the `Wiltshire' hanging outside the back door of the local store. Mentions World War II and fear of enemy using Fitzroy Harbour as a base, and talks about `Atreus' (`Atrius'), a British boat used to lay mines around Great Barrier Island. Refers to Stag Stellin as New Zealand's most decorated soldier. Talks about preserving fish stocks and his involvement on the Fishing Committee for Northland, representing recreational fishermen. Mentions seeing sharks in Karaka Bay and lots of whales. Jean Goodison talks about her family's link with Great Barrier Island and links with the LeRoy family and explains how all the old families intermarried. Mentions the recent re-union of the LeRoy family. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Helen Jordan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012408 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-4220. Search dates: 1919 - 1994

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Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :NZ 200 mile fishing zone. [ca 1978?]

Date: 1978 - 1980

By: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945-

Reference: B-143-077

Description: Cartoon shows Prime Minister Muldoon as a studded naval sea mine, waiting grimly for foreign shipping beside a sign for the limit to the 200 mile fishing zone around New Zealand. Other Titles - New Zealand two hundred Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 275 x 420 mm, on board 350 x 482 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd auction 21 April 2010, part of lot 297.

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New Zealand soldier with an Italian thermos bomb, Egypt, during World War 2

Date: [between 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: DA-00634-F

Description: Unidentified New Zealand soldier with an Italian 'thermos bomb' boobytrap, in Egypt, during World War 2. Photographer unidentified. The 'thermos bombs' were dropped in the Western Desert. They looked like a khaki-coloured thermos flask and were designed to explode when moved. Dvr G. R. Osborn was killed by one in the Western Desert on the 13th of September 1940. His was the first death from enemy action in 2 NZEF. (Information from CHAPTER 1, The Beginning, 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies, The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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[Der Weltkrieg]; 1917 - Neue Ausbildung und neue Waffen [Cards 163-168. Page] 45. [1920s?]

Date: 1914 - 1920 - 1918 - 1929

From: Der Weltkrieg: Herausgegeben vom Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Dresden A 1 [Cigarette card album. 1920-1935?]

Reference: Eph-F-WAR-WI-1920s-01-45

Description: Album page shows six picture cards headed '1917: Neue Ausbildung und neue Waffen' [1917 - New training and new weapons], with a short paragraph of text below each: 163: 'Minenwerfer' [Mine launcher] 164: 'Granatwerfer' [Mortar] 165: 'Flammenwerfer' [Flame-thrower] 166: 'Leichte Funkstation' [Lightweight radio station] 167: 'Künstlicher Nebel' [Artificial fog] 168: 'Rauchfackel' [Smoke flare]. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Six coloured photolithographs, each 50 x 64 mm, on page with letterpress text, 257 x 345 mm.

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Oral History of the New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines

Date: 1999-2002 - 2005 - 06 Aug 1999 - 31 Dec 2005

Reference: OHColl-0738

Description: Interviews with fifteen people talking about their involvement in the New Zealand campaign to ban landmines. Interviewees include leading politicians and committee members of the New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines (NZCALM). Interviewees are Jim Anderton, Jim Bolger, Gregory Clewly, Douglas Graham, Brian Hayes, John Head, Andrew Ladley, Neil Mander, Don McKinnon, Deborah Morris, Piers Reid, Phillip Twyford, Joy Quigley, Mary Wareham, Malcolm Watson and David Zwartz. Abstracted by - John Head and one by David Zwartz Awards/funding - project was largely funded by a grant from the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board, Environment and Heritage Committee Source of title - Title taken from agreement forms Interviewer(s) - John Head Quantity: 13 C60 cassette(s). 3 C90 cassette(s). 16 printed abstract(s). 16 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Processing information: Interview not yet described: John Head (abstract OHA-5048; original recordings OHC-014083 - OHC-014086) Tape numbers - OHC-012877 to OHC-012888, OHC-014083 to OHC-014086

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Lieutenant H L Mallitte, on bridge of World War II minesweeper, watches sweeps hauled i...

Date: [ca 8 Aug 1944]

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: Bull, George Robert, 1910-1996

Reference: DA-06489-F

Description: Lieutenant Howard Leon Mallitte, RNZNVR, (Wellington) from the bridge of the minesweeper under his command, watches the sweeps being hauled in. Photograph taken in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Bari, Italy, circa 8 August 1944 by George Robert Bull. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

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Kaye, George, b 1914 (Photographer) : World War 2 New Zealand soldiers using a mine dec...

Date: 30 Jul 1944

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: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-06460-F

Description: Original caption on back of War History DA file print reads: "Lifting German `Shoe' (Schu?) mines in the forward areas as the Div advances towards Florence. This particular area was heavily strewn with these mines. Standing inside the white tapes indicating a cleared area, N J Shephard uses the detector while Lt B C Moss renders harmless any mines discovered." Photograph taken by George Kaye, on the 30th of July, 1944. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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