Silk, Brian M, active 1937-1946

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: 1927-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-210

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1920s-1950s Five generations of the Smith family - Mrs Ellen Smith of Nelson aged 100 with her son, grandson and greatgrandson & great-greatgrandson. Article and photograph published in NZ Free Lance, 1 Sep 1948. Members of the council of the NZ Manufacturers' Association who attended the first meeting of the Council in Dunedin, 1941. W J Truscott (Auckland); C V Smith (Dunedin); I Matheson (Wellington); George Jackson (Wellington); J Abel; J C H Somerville (Dunedin); A M Hollander (Canterbury); D I Macdonald. Also: Mr & Mrs E J Smyth (Cunard Line), 1951; C W A Scott (aviator), 1931); Mr & Mrs B W A Dickson with Wing Commander & Mrs M Summers and C W Salmon, 1947; F W Sandford and J R H Cooksey, 1932; W Samuels, Christchurch, 1953; K Scott and W R Russell; Captain Sargent; Rt Hon Srinivasi Sastri with Sir John Salmond and Senator Pearce of Australia: Mr Saklatvala (Communist MP for North Battersea), 1926; L L Saggers of Trentham, 1950; O Sarafu (Chess champion), 1952; Sir Victor Sassoon, 1927; Rear Admiral F H Schofield, 1925; Earl of Sefton, 1930. Women and children in Elizabethan costume at opening of Shakespeare Memorial Theatre; Sir Percy Stilletoe with Prime Minister Sidney Holland, 1951; Tom Shaw (Minister in MacDonald Government); Sir Archibald Sinclair (Secretary of State for Air); MCC team going through Customs, 1951; Sir Mark Sheldon, 1930; Sir Edward Shortt (Film censor), 1927; Cardinal Spellman visit to Melborne, 1948; F O Skinner (Chief Traffic Manager Commonwealth Railways), 1950; J Shaw (jockey), 1934; Satterwaite (Mayor of Timaru), 1935; Major Patrick & Mrs Savage and their 8 children, 1932; J Skilling (radio operator), 1935; Walter Seavill, 1928; H R Shugg (brass band conductor), 1950 Quantity: 82 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 29 Mar 1937

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 1/4-048822-G

Description: B M Silk on the green of an unidentified golf course (probably Miramar Golf Course, Wellington), swinging a golf club. Taken by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post, 29 March 1937. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - beneath image - 29/3/37 Silk 810 B M Silk, from the Hutt, won the Wellington Provincial golf championship for 1937. He defeated H A Black (Miramar) 5-3 in the final (source: Evening Post 31/3/1937). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative