Military training - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1942-1943

By: New Zealand. Army. Home Guard. Wellington City Battalion. B Company

Reference: MS-Papers-2253

Description: The collection includes material on operational tactics, use of weapons and physical training. Also contains sketch maps drawn by Sergeant Lloyd of parts of Wellington covered by B Company, and B Coy roll books. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.05 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts (some cyclostyled or carbon copies) Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Armbands transferred 1978 (Curios 24(c)/1).

Date: 17 October 1966

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1966/4492-F

Description: Soldiers taking part in a military exercise in the Akatarawa Ranges carry a "wounded" man to a waiting helicopter. Photographed by an Evening post staff photographer 17 October 1966 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) 35mm negative strip comprising 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm

Date: Between 1916 and 1917

From: Firth, Pauline J, fl 1977 :Photograph albums of New Zealand and of World War I

By: Whitaker, Arthur, active 1916-1940?

Reference: PA1-o-175

Description: Views of the military camps at Waikanae, Featherston and Trentham in 1916 and 1917; military parade at Palmerston North on Xmas Day 1916, and the Cadet parade at Newtown Park, Wellington on Anzac Day 1917. Album created by Arthur Whitaker. Inscriptions: Album page - Arthur Whitaker. Wellington, N.Z. 19.2.17 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover entitled `Photographs'; 16 x 21 cm

Date: 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: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: DA-01795

Description: Soldiers of the School of Bush and Mountain Warfare take a meal break near Phillips Creek, Eastern Hutt watershed, Tararua Range. Photograph taken on 18 Jan 1943 by John Dobree Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1940-1943

By: Moresby, Tracy Anstruther, 1903-1985

Reference: MS-Group-1582

Description: Collection comprises notebooks for a wartime reminiscence. There is one complete draft of the reminiscences, and five notebooks containing partial drafts with background material and anecdotal information. The reminiscences cover enlistment in the New Zealand Army, training at the Trentham Military Camp, embarkation to North Africa and military life in the Medical Corps in Egypt. An expanded biography of Moresby is available in the Manuscripts Collection back file. Source of title - Supplied by Library Private Moresby served with No 2 General Hospital, New Zealand Medical Corps, 2nd NZEF. Served in North Africa, discharged from service in 1943 on medical grounds. Quantity: 6 volume(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs Provenance: One notebook has the regimental serial number 31972 inscribed on the title page. The auction catalogue indicated that the notebooks may have been written by George Farquhar. This would appear to be incorrect from the reference located within volume MSX-7965.

Date: Jul 1943

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000490-F

Description: New Zealand soldiers during a gun drill on a Fairmile submarine chaser, photographed by John Pascoe in July 1943 in Wellington Harbour. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 20,490 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1945 - 1950

By: McNamara, John Joseph, 1918-2001

Reference: A-369-088/098

Description: Collection of political cartoons published in The Southern Cross which mainly relate to Sidney Holland and his conservative policies, as well as the New Zealand forces that were sent to Japan after its deafeat in World War II. Also contains cartoons that are specific to the Wellington region with particular reference to mayor William Appleton and the prison on Mt Crawford. International issues are also adressed; especially those relating to Britain's class sysyem and the social problems that the nation faced in the aftermath of World War II. Quantity: 11.

Date: 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: DA-01816

Description: Members of the Wellington Home Guard and US Marine Corps personel, taking part in the School of Bush and Mountain Warfare in burnt bush on the Marchant Ridge, Tararua Range. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1917-1919, 1935

From: Scott, William Bramwell, 1873-1935 : Journals

Reference: MSX-3210

Description: From January-May 1918 Scott was stationed at Featherston Camp and left New Zealand with the 39th Reinforcements of the NZEF in June 1918 aboard Transport 106 (Athenic) which later ran aground on a reef in Jamaica enroute to England where they arrived on 31 August. The journal contains an account of this period and is illustrated with photographs, postcards and ephemera. Also NZRSA Review, May 1935 containing an obituary for Rev Scott. Enclosures - Includes ivy and wood violet in Mylar envelope Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts and printed matter Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project. Digitisation details - 136 digitised images

Date: April 1893

From: Anastasiou, Spiros :Photograph albums associated with the Evans Family

Reference: PA1-q-564-12-1

Description: Military volunteers camp in farmland near Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand, Easter 1893. Photographed by an unknown photographer around 2 April 1893. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Volunteer camp, Johnsonville, Easter 1893 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 16 x 11.4 cm

Date: 1944

By: MacDonnell, J, active 1944

Reference: B-132-005

Description: Shows Captain Quartermaster J F Cody (lighting a cigarette) with twelve of his colleagues at Trentham Military Training Camp; some of them have signed beside their likenesses. These include: N P K Holbeck, J Black, A J Glue, A E Paine (holding a pack of packets of "Camel" cigarettes), H Bennett, E F Robertson, G Matthews, W Evans, E T Law, D G Thompson (smoking a pipe) and F Cluff[?]. Holbeck, Evans and Robertson may have been cooks. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on card, 431 x 528 mm. Provenance: Donated by Patricia Fry in 2000.

Date: [during World War II)

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-5926-27

Description: Training of Army bush guides near the Whakatikei River, Upper Hutt, during World War II. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe Inscriptions: Verso - World War, 1939-45. Defense. Training army bush guides. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: April 1908

From: Evans, Charles Hellier Davis, 1873-1956 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-220-2-7

Description: Colonel Arthur Bauchop and local officers photographed with their horses at a military volunteers camp near Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand, Easter 1908. Photographed by an unknown photographer around 19 April 1908. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Col Bauchop & local officers at staff ride 1908. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 8.2 x 5.5 cm, on album page

Date: [between 1942-1944]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000146

Description: United States Marines in scrub at the Army School of Bush and Mountain Warfare in the Tararua Ranges, between 1942-1944. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Original caption reads: "This scrub is friendly to the Marines, after their experiences in sterner fields overseas." Note on back of file print reads "This scrub is friendly to the Marines after their experiences in sterner fields overseas." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [between 1942-1944]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: 1/4-000144-F

Description: United States Marines with New Zealand soldiers in scrub at the Army School of Bush and Mountain Warfare in the Tararua Ranges, between 1942-1944. Photograph taken by John Dobree Pascoe. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).