Rugby football - Italy

Date: ca 1943-ca 1946, ca 1999

From: McLean, Peter McDonald, 1920-2003 :Photographs relating to Peter McLean

Reference: PA1-q-899

Description: Photographs of members of the 2nd New Zealand Ammunition Company on service in Italy, North Africa and the Middle East during the Second World War. Images depict camps and places visited on leave, and photographs of a reunion held in Rotorua ca 1990s. Includes newspaper clippings relating to the Company rubgy football team and its players, and menus from a farewell dinner in Rome. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1944-1945

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-301

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in Italy during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Officers and personnel of the 9th NZ Infantry Brigade and of the 6th NZ Infantry Brigade at Trieste; thanksgiving service on the occasion of the end of war in Europe, and presentation of awards by Lt-Gen Sir B C Freyberg. Group portraits of No 1 & No 2 Platoons of Mechanical Equipment Company of New Zealand Divisional Engineers; various sports and entertainments including a trotting meeting at Montebello, Trieste; swimming regatta; athletics; hurdles; yacht race; skiing and staying at the NZ Alpine leave centre at Madonna di Campiglio, in the Brenta di Dolomiti (Southern Dolomites); sports in Florence (Allied track and field championships); swimming championships at Rome; water polo; motor cycle speedway events and rugby. New Zealand staff at the NZ Forces Clubs in Bari, in Rome, in Florence and in Venice. A memorial visit to Crete by members of the NZ Division who had been in the Cretan campaign in 1941, as guests of honour at a luncheon given by the people of Galatas; visits to the old Head Quarters; and a memorial service at the military cemetery; other memorial services at the Sangro Military Cemetery and at the Cassino War Cemetery. New Zealand troops on leave in the United Kingdom, visiting Hampton Court, Victoria Barracks, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral. Scenes with Freyberg inspecting troops before they leave for New Zealand; also members of "Jay Force" during their training in the Florence area; an illuminated address presented to Lt-Gen Sir B C Freyberg by 28 Maori Battalion during his farewell visit to the Divisional Unit, (the address includes a wooden frame carved by Charles Iotua Tuarau); Freyberg saying farewell to nursing staff at the NZ General Hospital (Florence); married men of the Tenth Reinforcement at the NZ Advance Base awaiting transport home; group portrait of the staff of the NZ Army Post Office at Bari on the day the post office disbanded. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, darker blue corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: [ca 8 Feb 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-05215-F

Description: Members of the New Zealand Public Relations Service play football in the rain and mud, behind the lines on the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 8 February 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca Nov 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

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04484-F

Description: Group portrait of the New Zealand Army Service Corps team that played a Royal Navy team at the Bari Stadium, Italy, during World War II. NZ ASC personnel billeted at the Stadium arranged the match with the RN men. The NZers won by 11 to nil. L to R back, J C Bassett (Danne), J N Brownlie (HB), J B Grant (Hast), P R Jensen (Danne), E A Orr (Gore), O Brough (Chch), D A Hardie (Rotorua), W G Crossman (Ashburton), M Cochrane (Waimate), J Ryan (Matamata). Front, E T Hoffman (Gore), J F Rayner (Pukemiro), H F Thomson (Palm N), I E Day (Wn), C Russell (Whangarei), A Rodger (Owaka), W D Morley (Otago), C H Fenwick (Foxton). Photograph taken circa November 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 8 Feb 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-05213-F

Description: Members of the New Zealand Public Relations Service play football behind the lines on the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 8 February 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 2 Mar 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-05366-F

Description: American and New Zealand spectators watch an incident on the sidelines during the exhibition match played in the Cassino area, in Italy, between two teams from the New Zealand Division Ammo. Photograph taken circa 2 March 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 2 Mar 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-05367-F

Description: A general view of the spectators watching the incidents in the rugby match in the Cassino area, Italy, between two teams of the New Zealand Div Ammo. Photograph taken circa 2 March 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca 8 Feb 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-05214-F

Description: Members of the New Zealand Public Relations Service play football under conditions of rain and mud behind the lines on the Italian Front, during World War II. Photograph taken circa 8 February 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 2009

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0011619

Description: Shows a poster asking the viewer to 'Spot the spectator'. It asks the viewer to mark with an 'x' where in a large empty stadium being pelted with rain the 'die-hard...Canty rugby fan may be seated during the test against Italy. Refers to the difficulty of attracting large crowds to the game. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [ca 2 Mar 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-05365-F

Description: Section of spectators at an exhibition rugby match played recently, for the benefit of American soldiers, by two teams of the New Zealand Division, during the Italian Campaign. Photograph taken circa 2 March 1944 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: [ca Nov 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

By: Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004

Reference: DA-04485-F

Description: An incident of play in the game of football between the New Zealand Army Service Corps and a team from the Royal Navy at the Bari Stadium, Italy, during World War II. Photograph taken circa November 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative