World War, 1914-1918 - Cemeteries - Palestine

Date: 1970s

From: Aydon, Godfrey William, 1911-1981: Collection relating to service in World War II

By: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PA1-q-1245

Description: Album of photographs taken and collected by Godfrey William Aydon during his service in World War II, circa 1941 to 1945. Album compiled by Aydon's daughter Liz in the 1970s. Some prints have Aydon's writing on the back and these descriptions have been transcribed for album captions. Locations have been identified for most other prints. Photographers of commercial prints are unidentified. Album is divided into sections titled "People", "Cairo", "Alexandria", Jerusalem", "Nazareth", and "Beiriut". With the exception of the "People" section, the photographs are mainly from commercial tourist sets. Identified military personnel are Aydon, Russel Kirkby, Alex Inkster, Ross, Jack, and Goff. In some images some men hold or stand by guns. Other photographs relating to military life include the interior of Aydon's tent, the interior of the mess tent, and unidentified men in uniform on a doorstep holding two geese. Local people also feature, including unidentified men laying bricks and a man identified as "George", the Greek proprietor of George's Bar, who is pictured outside his establishment with a group of soldiers. The "People" section of the album includes a group portrait of soldiers in front of barracks at Trentham Army Camp taken by S. C. Smith. Images of cities and towns that Aydon visited include scenic images, cityscapes, and famous sites. Images of note include the Nile River in flood, millet fields, Cairo Citadel, Jerusalem War Cemetery and Memorial, and a number of churches and mosques. Also includes labels from Regal and Stella Light beer bottles (both made in Cairo, Egypt). Inscriptions: Recto - top left - To Dad | With lots of love | Mike + Liz Arrangement: Three prints, which had fallen from their album page, have been placed in an enclosure between the last page and back cover of the album. Photograph album was gifted to Aydon by his daughter Liz and son-in-law Mike. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 118 b&w original photographs, and 6 items of ephemera (beer labels). Physical Description: Instant stick album with photographic vista of mountain and lake on front and rear cover, spiral bound, 28.6 x 24.8

Date: [1917-1919]

By: Barnett, William John, active 1914-1919

Reference: PA1-o-033

Description: Photograph album of images taken during World War I by William John Barnett, trooper with the Canterbury Mounted Rifles. Includes views of Jerusalem, Bethany, and Bethlehem; the only bridge across the Suez Canal erected by Anzac troops and engineers, and a pontoon bridge across the River Jordan. Images of people include Bedouin families, General Allenby and staff at Jerusalem, photographs of various soldiers in the Canterbury Mounted Rifles including Eric Anderson, Spud Murphy, and Ernie Stevens. Views of King Solomon's wells (near Bethlehem); St Catherine's Cathedral, the Palace Hotel, and the New Zealand Convalescent Home are all at Heliopolis; New Zealand war graves at Gaza. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey album 190 x 260 mm Provenance: Donated by Beulah Barnett, Fairfield, 1977

Date: [Between 1914 and 1918]

From: Johnstone, L : Photograph and album of photographs taken by G F Wright during World War I

By: Wright, George Frederick, 1889-1952?

Reference: PA1-q-271

Description: Photographs of World War I, taken in the Middle East by George Frederick Wright. None of the images have captions. Many scenes show aspects of life in Egypt; several views of the Handley Page V/1500 known as "Old Carthusian"; planes that have crashed; ships in Suez Canal; long convoys of horse-drawn gun-carriages; huge numbers of camels, and camel cavalry; groups of simple wooden crosses on battlefields, some of which have names and dates that are legible (names listed above); Chapelle de Matarieh; mosques and Coptic churches; and costume worn by different groups of Egyptian people. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, entitled "New Zealand ferns"; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: May 1927

From: World War 1914-1918 albums

Reference: PA1-f-104

Description: Photographs of the unveiling ceremonies at Ramleh War Cemetery on 6 May 1927, and Jerusalem War Cemetery on 7 May 1927, taken by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: ca October 1918-ca July 1919

From: Field-Dodgson, Ernest Robert, 1926-1999 :World War I photograph albums compiled by trooper C L Crowley

Reference: PA1-o-170

Description: Photo album, World War I, ex late trooper Crowley, C. L. Canterbury Mounted Rifles (34th Reinforcements). Images taken in Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, and Turkey. One group relates to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Photographer possibly Crowley himself. The images in this album were probably taken at the very end of the war in the Middle East, and reflect what happened after the Armistice with Turkey on the 31st of October 1918. The Gallipoli episode in the album relates to the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, and the 2nd and 7th Australian Light Horse Brigades leaving Kantara on the 27th of November 1918 for the Gallipoli Peninsula. The purpose of this was to take part in the Allied occupation of the Dardanelles and Constantinople and specifically to see that Turkey was carrying out its commitments under the terms of the Armistice in the southern part of the Gallipoli Peninsula. They did not take their horses on this operation. During this tour of duty most of the troops took leave in Constantinople. They returned to Egypt in January 1919, by which time the New Zealand Mounted Rifles had were encamped at Rafa. They rejoined the rest of the Brigade at Rafa on the 23rd of January 1919. They remained in Egypt to help control civil disturbances, so that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles were not disbanded until June 1919, and the soldiers began their journey home that month and in July. (Info from "The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine," Lieutenant-Colonel C Guy Powles, Whitcome and Tombs, 1922, chapter X1X; "The History of The Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-1919, Edited by Colonel C Guy Powles, Whitcome and Tombs, 1928, chapter X1X). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue suede album, entitled Photographs, 21 x 27 cm

Date: 1941

From: Parker, Raymond Walter :World War Two photograph albums compiled by R W Parker

Reference: PA1-o-981

Description: Photographs taken on leave in Palestine. Jerusalem, Churches, the Dome of the Rock Mosque, the British and New Zealand war ceneteries, biblical sites like the Garden of Gethsemane, Bethlehem, the Mount of Olives, the River Jordan, and the sea of Galilee, and swimming in the Dead Sea. There are views of the countryside around Jerusalem, some villages, and the coastal town, Haifa. The first group of photographs of Greece seem to have been taken on the move to the battle front, and on retreat. They are largly views of the countryside, Mount Olympus, and the Katarini Pass. There is a photograph of the Signals Division's last camp at Marathon where they spent the day hidden before marching to the beach from which they embarked on the Glengyle for Crete. The photographs cover the period 22 March to 25 April, 1941. The photographs of Crete were taken before the German invasion. Soldiers going to church, lining up for food, and general interaction with the Cretans. The towns photographed are Galatos and Carnia. Parker must have been wounded on Crete as the next group of photographs are of the military hospital, and Kiwi Club at Helwan, Egypt, and scenes and events at Maadi. Then there are photographs taken from the Maunganui on the way back to New Zealand. The rest of the photographs are of the Creek campaign and of army friends in Egypt, Syria, and Italy in 1943 and 1944 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 1918-1919]

By: Lupton, Roger Deller, 1897-

Reference: PAColl-0401

Description: Photographs of Palestine, Egypt and the Middle East, probably taken by Roger Lupton who was on active service there. As there are captions relating to the AMR, it is assumed that he was with the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment. They are mostly of places of interest in the area such as the Monastery of St George at Wadi Qelt; the Crusaders' Tower in Richon; the Mosque of Omar, the Garden of Gethsemane and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem; temple ruins at Luxor; the Agricultural College in Jaffa; the River Jordan; a Roman amphitheatre in Amman; the German Church in Bethlehem; the Church of Lazarus in Bethany; the inside of the Russian Church in Jaffa; and a man and a woman floating in the Dead Sea. However, there are others relating to the campaign: a pontoon bridge over the River Jordan; Kastal Railway Station on the Mecca line with a long goods train being loaded; the remains of the Turkish gun Jericho Jane (Turkish gun used in the Jordan Valley during the First World War so named as its range was long enough to hit Jericho from the opposite side of the vally, twelve miles away. The gun had an eighteen foot barrel); bombed houses in Jaffa; a cemetery; Algerian cavalry in Ismalia; railway lines at Tantah, Egypt; a stone Turkish bridge at Beersheba; the ruins of a Turkish patrol boat next to the Dead Sea; a railway engine destroyed by the retreating Turks; dead horses of the Auckland regiment in the Jordan Valley; a group of soldiers on board a troop ship; and three of men and horses, one showing the camp at Richon. Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s) loose prints. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) post cards. 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: Sep 1918

Reference: 1/2-106315-F

Description: Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [ca 1914-1918]

Reference: 1/2-106303-F

Description: Headstones and graves of unidentified members of the Wellington Mounted Rifles killed in action in Palestine during World War I. Taken by an unidentified photographer between 1914-1918. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).