Military training camps

Date: 26 Apr 1917-22 Apr 1918, [ca 1937], 2014

By: Harcourt, John Gordon, 1890-1963

Reference: MS-Group-2384

Description: The diary covers the period 26 April 1917-22 April 1918 and provides a day by day account of Harcourt's experiences while on active service. The 2015 accession includes the originals of the photocopied diaries, a letter to his father, speech notes on Anzac Day and a typed transcript of his diaries. Source of title - Supplied by Library Harcourt entered camp in June 1916 and sailed from New Zealand on the ship 'Tofua' with reinforcements for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on 26 April 1917. He landed at Plymouth on 19 July and undertook training at Sling Camp. He left for France on 18 October and in mid November arrived at the Front where he saw action with 13 Company, 1st Canterbury Battalion. Quantity: 6 folder(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, photocopies, typescript, photos Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photographs - Photographs taken by Harcourt while on troopship Tofua are with the Photographic Archive..

Date: ca 1920s

Reference: PAColl-0525

Description: Coloured black and white photograph of Featherston camp showing the rows of long huts. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Hand-touched photographic print 165mm x 113mm on a mount 243mm x 195mm

Date: 1916

By: Kirkland, Charles Mitchell, 1894-1967

Reference: MSX-9347

Description: The diary of Rifleman C M Kirkland describes training at Rangiotu, near Wanganui, embarkation, battles and trench warfare around Armentieres, his injury, recovery in England at Brockenhurst Hospital and return to New Zealand. The entries are disjointed but give a vivid account of the fighting and the experience of being under bombardment in the frontline trenches. Handwritten label of front cover of diary reads "Dad's diary written during the 1st World War. He was a patient in Brockenhurst Hospital". Three pages, dealing with his training at Rangiotu, were torn, presumably by Kirkland, from the body of the diary and have been placed in the envelope inside the front cover. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - The donor requests a transcript if the diary is deciphered and transcribed. Charles Kirkland served with the New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade in France during 1916 and was involved in the fighting around Armentieres. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Michelle Kirkland, Reading, England, in Oct 2014

Date: 6 Mar 1995 - 06 Mar 1995

From: History of the Army in New Zealand during World War II

By: Douglas, Edward Arthur Norman, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0571/09

Description: Edward Arthur Norman Douglas born Pukekohe 1924. Recalls being a market gardener and serving on the Home Guard until 1942 when he was called up at the age of 18 years and sent for training at Ngaruawahia camp for one month. Posted to 2nd Battalion Waikato Regiment at Claudelands where training continued and describes duties which included loading out ammunition for the CAC factory Hamilton into rail or trucks. Recalls Battalion being sent to Great Barrier Island, Nov 1942 and describes headquarters at Claris airfield, conditions, beach guard duty, use of pack horses to supply outposts and coast watching. Recalls volunteering for Air Force, being posted May 1943, and after aircrew training, missed a medical and was allocated to guard duties with RNZAF. Mentions being manpowered out of services for a period and later serving with J Force. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Dick Linnell Venue - 46 Paerata Road, Pukekohe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008034 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2196.

Date: 20 Nov 2005

From: Second World War oral history project: Home Front

By: McIntyre, Elizabeth Jane, 1921-2006

Reference: OHInt-0827-09

Description: Interview with Elizabeth Jane McIntyre (nee Bristow), born Te Araroa, 2 March 1921, iwi Ngapuhi. Talks about her father Alfred George (Te Hawhe) Bristow, a dairy farmer at Kawakawa and her mother Annie Balero. Recalls voluntary war work she did in Whangarei, and enlisting in the Army in 1942. Mentions her parents' reaction to her enlisting and their advice about living in Auckland. Talks about initial training at Papakura, other Maori girls in camp, and becoming batwoman for Miss Hawkins. Recalls that a friend Ruth Wilkinson was transferred to an anti-aircraft battery at Dargaville. Discusses looking after the Regimental Aid Post room and her duties there and other jobs including time as a librarian and as a maitre d' in the officers' dining room. Talks about the uniform, discipline, inspection parades before leave, and about officers Miss Marjorie Hardcastle and Miss Mary Geddes. Comments on why she decided to leave the Army in 1946 and on marrying George McIntyre. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015242, OHC-015243 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1. 1.47 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5526 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. photocopy of photograph of Jane Bristow in her WAAC uniform Search dates: 1921 - 1939 - 2005 - 1945

Date: 1939-1945

Reference: PAColl-6618

Description: Three images of women's army life: a woman cleaning a 1938 Ford military car; two women inside their hut, one putting on lipstick and the other brushing her hair; and a group of women marching between rows of huts. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-019079 to 019081 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives

Date: 1932 - 1948

From: Buxton, Trevor Sidney, 1901-1948 :[Landscape design plans for fine gardens in the (mostly lower) North Island; includes two design plans for garden entrances by Trevor's brother, Raymond. ca 1932-1948]

Reference: Plans-2012-011-065

Description: Plan view of the RNZAF GTS (Ground Training School), showing the Headquarters, lecture room and officers' mess areas, as well as a circular rose garden with a reflection pool, and a tennis court and swimming pool Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Trevor S Buxton NDHNZ / Landscape Architect / Palmerston North Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on transparent paper, 490 x 630 mm Provenance: Donation: Andrew and Peta Buxton, Christchurch, February 2012

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 28 Sep 1984

From: NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part II

By: Clark, Lester Arthur, 1916-1993

Reference: OHInt-0101/03

Description: Lester Arthur Clark born Christchurch 1916. Outlines family background - father, Walter Clark, a builder and bricklayer, subcontracted for the Hunter building, Victoria University during the war and, with his brother, built the first State houses in Christchurch. Also built Queen Mary extension to Hanmer Hospital. Talks about the Depression (1930's). Discusses relationship with father; religion; politics; schooling and discipline. Recalls being called up for World War II in first territorial ballot, September 1940 and being sent to Dunedin Racecourse for training. Recalls that because of threat of invasion by Japanese, all racecourses were converted to military camps. In 1942 was called up in overseas ballot and went to Egypt, repatriated to England and returned to New Zealand in 1946. Describes meeting his wife who was in the WAAFS in England and marriage in 1946. Recalls joining Customs Department, Wellington 1947 and outlines his career until retirement in 1981. Topics discussed include: celebrations and promotion shouts; Sales tax; work in Excise Department; Parcels post; social life, with reference to Pier Hotel; Longroom in the Warehouse keeper's section; Import Licensing; Black Budget (1958); Uniform Branch; language problems with immigration; rummaging; importing and basic licence system; female employees in Customs. Mentions: Jimmy Martin; J M (John) Bell; R A H (Dick) Perkins; Percy Woods; Charlie Woods; Bob Cooper; Barton Ginger; Dave Sawyers; Johnny Gresham; E S Gale; Alex Knight and Frank Spackman. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0089. 4 b&w photographs: (1) Arthur and Margaret Clark; (ii) Arrival of `Patris' November 1961 L-R; Herman Kolijn, Albert Short, John Gresham, Arthur Clark, Alan Wilkin, ?, Mr Garland (Greek Consul), Stuart McLean, Johnny Mouat and Cliff Myers; (iii) Lester Arthur Clark (left) [in uniform]; (iv) `Southern Cross' 1958 L-R; Purser, Arthur Clark, (Assistant Boarding Director), John Gresham (Boarding Inspector), Sgt Dave Patterson, Wharf Police, Constable A Thompson. Search dates: 1984

Date: [ca 1915-1917]

From: Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-886

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: Sep-Dec 1939

From: Lovell-Smith, Peter Cornford, 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8542-01

Description: Letters to his parents while in training with NZ Artillery at Ngarawahia Camp Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Jul-Dec 1940

From: Lovell-Smith, Peter Cornford, 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8542-03

Description: Letters to his parents while at Maadi Camp Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1962

By: Evenden, Alfred Henry William, 1890-1974

Reference: MS-Papers-10721

Description: Reminiscences by Evenden of his early military experiences from childhood, and as an Artillery volunteer and territorial from 1908. Although he was posted to France 1916-1918 this time is barely mentioned. Most of the account records his experiences as a artilleryman in New Zealand. He refers briefly to his post-war service up until 1940. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (17 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: Jan-Jun 1941

From: Lovell-Smith, Peter Cornford, 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8542-04

Description: Letters to his parents while at in hospital, Egypt. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Jan-Jun 1940

From: Lovell-Smith, Peter Cornford, 1916-1987 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8542-02

Description: Letters to his parents while being transported on the ship `Empress of Canada' to Egypt, and while at Maadi Camp Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1860s

By: Cobb, J V, active 1860s

Reference: PA2-0533

Description: Shows a soldier reading. He is sitting on his bed next to his rolled up mattress. Artist is unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 2011

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017109

Description: The cartoon shows an old disintegrating boot and a rhyme reads 'There was an old woman who lived in a boot, She had so many reoffenders, she didn't give a hoot...' Nearby is a newspaper with a headline reading 'PM defends boot camps despite most youths reoffending'. Context - The military activity camps, known as MACs, were launched in 2009 by Prime Minister John Key. The Ministry of Social Development has refused an Official Information Act request by The Press asking for the number of offences committed by participants before and after the camps. The cost of the camps is $36,000 for each participant. However, a spokeswoman for Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said: "Around half do not reoffend at all. The other half do reoffend, but it tends to be at the far less serious end of things." (Stuff 10 February 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1899

From: Andrews, E R (Major) :Photographs of the Alexandra Mounted Rifles

Reference: 1/2-024517-F

Description: Members of the Alexandra Mounted Rifles, part of the 1st Contingent to leave for the South African War (1899-1902), at the camp on Campbell's Farm, Campbell Street, Karori, on the site of what is now (1999) Ben Burn Park. Photographer unidentified. Back row: Troopers H Cameron, George Powell, Crawley; Middle row: Corporal Craig, Troopers Lockett, Galpin, Wylie; Front row: Troopers Hawkins and Butler Names taken from identical image published in 'Auckland Weekly News', 27 October 1899 page 2 http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aucklandcity.govt.nz%2Fdbtw-wpd%2FHeritageImages%2Findex.htm&AC=QBE_QUERY&TN=heritageimages&QF0=ID&NP=2&MR=5&RF=HIORecordSearch&QI0=%3D%22AWNS-18991027-2-3%22 (retrieved 3 June 2022) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1932 - 1948

From: Buxton, Trevor Sidney, 1901-1948 :[Landscape design plans for fine gardens in the (mostly lower) North Island; includes two design plans for garden entrances by Trevor's brother, Raymond. ca 1932-1948]

Reference: Plans-2012-011-016

Description: Broad plan view of the RNZAF GTS (Ground Training School), showing the Headquarters, lecture room and officers' mess areas, as well as a circular rose garden with a reflection pool, and a tennis court and swimming pool. In addition to these details, the plan shows the position of two other tennis courts, the sick quarters, sergeants' and airmen's mess halls, a further lecture block, equipment store, garage and car wash, and parade grounds. Incorporates more rose gardens and a tree-lined driveway Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Trevor S Buxton NDHNZ / Landscape Architect / Palmerston North [partially obscured] Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on transparent paper, 550 x 590 mm Provenance: Donation: Andrew and Peta Buxton, Christchurch, February 2012