New Zealand - Armed Forces

Date: 1944-1946

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: PAColl-4161-01-034-1

Description: Most photographs relate to the return of New Zealand troops 1945-1946, in particular returning prisoners of war. A few record troop departures in late September 1944. Arrangement: Negatives for some of the photographs found at F 176039 1/2 - F 176049 1/2 Quantity: 48 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1919]

By: British Army and Navy Leave Club; Royal Studios (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0431

Description: Photographs of New Zealand and Australian troops in front of the Notre Dame and another building in Paris. They are accompanied by women in dark uniforms with stripes at the collar. Three photographs of women: one looking at a pocket watch and one in a large broad-brimmed hat (in post card format taken by Royal Studio) and the face of a woman cut out and stuck on to card. Quantity: 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Mr Romanovsky found them in the back of an encyclopaedia in a second hand shop.

Date: [ca 1915-1944]

By: Read, James Cornelius, 1871-1968

Reference: PAColl-0502

Description: Fourteen photographs taken by Sgt J C Read of ANZAC Day in London. They include views of Australian and New Zealand troops marching along The Strand watched by large crowds; dignitaries, including King George V, leaving the memorial service held at Westminster Abbey; and two in Gallipoli, one of wounded soldiers waiting to be transported and the other of New Zealand graves. The collection also includes one photograph from the Second World War of the staff of the Radio Development Laboratory, which was probably on Majoribanks Street, Wellington, and the Governor-General Sir Cyril Newall. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Feb 1924

By: Muir and MacKinlay (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-D-0748

Description: Group portrait of the Members of the House of Representatives, New Zealand military personnel and members of the visiting Japanese Training Squadron. The group taken on the steps of parliament House after the Government's luncheon to Vice-Admiral Saito and his principal officers, Captain Mitsumasa Yonai (Iwate), Captain Wataru Ugawa (Yakumo), and Captain Sueki Yonemura (Asama). The Vice-Admiral is sitting in the front row between the Rt Hon W F Massey (Prime Minister) and Hon Sir W E Carncross (Speaker of the Legislative Council). Sir Joseph Ward is sitting next to Sir Francis Bell. Others in the front row are Hon R F Bollard, Hon W Nosworthy, Hon C E Statham, T M Wilford, Commodore Beal, Hon Sir Heaton Rhodes. The photograph was published (along with others taken during the visit) in the New Zealand Free Lance, 13 Feb 1924 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Muir & MacKinlay Photo 1924 The Imperial Japanese Navy sent its new cadets on long training voyages each year from 1872. 23 voyages were made to Australasia and 13 went as far as New Zealand. Visits were made between 1882-1886, 1902-1916, and 1924, 1926, 1928, 1932 and 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 355 x 495 mm with mount 490 x 630 mm

Date: 1939-1940

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: PAColl-4161-01-031-12

Description: Mainly photographs of military officers probably involved in recruitment and selection of troops Quantity: 18 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941-1945

By: Trethewey, Allan W, active 1920-

Reference: PAColl-4888

Description: Mostly relates to the construction of a port and facilities at Safaga, Egypt on the Red Sea during the Second World War. Safaga port was the Red Sea teminal of a railway line built to connect the coast with the Nile at Quena. The route for the railway line and the port was surveyed by New Zealand engineers and the line was constructed by the Egyptian Railway Department. The purpose of the line and the port was to provide infrastructure to facilitate retreat and evacuation should the Nile Delta be lost. Prior to the war a British phosphate company had established an operation at Safaga and had built a small jetty there. This is also recorded in the photographs. Also in the desert on the route between Safaga and Quena are the Roman ruins of the Mons Claudianus Baths which were the site of a good water supply There is also a record of Peter Fraser and General Freyberg in Rome in June 1945 Quantity: 87 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1943-1946

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: PAColl-4161-01-034-3

Description: Most photographs relate to the return of New Zealand troops from Britain and Egypt on the Mooltan Quantity: 35 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1945-ca 1947

From: Harper, Ian, fl 1946-1967 : Photographs relating to service in J Force

Reference: PA1-o-1232

Description: Photographs of a band on the parade ground of the barracks at Yamaguchi; a barracks building on fire; street scenes and other views of towns; Motor vehicles, especially army trucks; a group of soldiers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1982

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-071

Description: Shows Muldoon laying down his jacket (N.Z. assistance) to Margaret Thatcher. Refers to New Zealand's support of Britain in the war against Argentina over the Falkland Islands, and Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cloak to Queen Elizabeth I. Extended Title - Falklands campaign Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 450 x 320 mm.

Date: 1944

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the Second World War, 1943-1946]

By: Anzac Club (New York, N.Y.); Szyk, Arthur, 1894-1951; Luxford, Nola, 1895-1994

Reference: Eph-B-WAR-WII-1944-02

Description: Each sticker shows a head and shoulder portrait of memebers of the armed forces from the three countries: Australia, America and New Zealand. The address of the ANZAC Club is printed below: 106 West 56th Street, New York, 19, N.Y., U.S.A. The signature of the artist appears at the centre right: Arthur Szyk, N.Y. 44. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Sheet of 25 stickers, each 49 x 43 mm.; total size 260 x 208 mm. Provenance: Most copies donated from the Nola Luxford papers, 1995.

Date: 1955

From: Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991 :[Twenty-eight (28) original cartoons, 1940s and 1950s].

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Colvin, Neville Maurice, 1918-1991

Reference: C-132-874

Description: Shows the Prime Minister Sid Holland in a shooting outfit and top hat, using a long bamboo peashooter to send a small missile towards the Malayan Peninsula. He has a rifle slung over his back and two grenades at his belt. Dated from Ian Grant's "The unauthorised version" (Auckland, 1980), where it appears with the title "Whoosh". Other Titles - Whoosh Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on sheet 333 x 482 mm.

Date: 1939-1940

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: PAColl-4161-01-029-2

Description: Medical examination of recruits Quantity: 26 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: March 1910

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

Reference: PA1-o-220-27

Description: The Gisborne Volunteer Squadron in Bivouac at Mr Scott's, Kaiteratahi, Easter 1910. Horses being taken to drink at the river photographed by an unknown photographer around 27 March 1910. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Watering parade Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 20.7 x 15 cm, on album page

Date: May 1898

By: Dawes, Charles Peet, 1867-1947

Reference: PAColl-0344

Description: Photographs relating to the Dog Tax Rebellion, also known as the Dog Tax War, taken May 1898 in Rawene by Charles P Dawes. The photographs show troops lined up and posing with rifles, a group of men in uniform in front of tents, and a group of Maori civilians laying down arms. In May 1898 Hokianga was the scene of the 'Dog Tax Rebellion' which arose when the Mahurehure hapu of Ngapuhi tribe refused to pay a dog tax instituted by the local county council. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted photographic prints

Date: 1944-1945

By: New Zealand. Royal New Zealand Air Force; Evatt, Gerald Sinclair, 1906-1981

Reference: PAColl-0338

Description: Photographs of the Japaneses capitulation in South East Asia and the Pacific, particularly Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They include a number of photographs of Japanese prisoners of war being marched to camps; the signing of surrender documents by Australian officers; painting Japan Surrenders on the underside of RAAF plane wings to inform Japanese forces; the announcement of the Japanese surrender by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Singapore; the Duke of Gloucester, Governor General of Australia, visiting troops; a Japanese tank on fire; and earlier photographs of Allied forces on Bougainville in 1944. The photographs are nearly all official Royal New Zealand Air Force and are captioned on the reverse. Also included with the collection is a copy of New Zealand Freemason frm May 1977 which includes a photograph of the NZEF Masonic Association meeting in 1918 in France.. Quantity: 40 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1995 - 1997

By: Hubbard, James, 1949-

Reference: B-154-009/014

Description: Includes cartoons about: The New Zealand cricket team's bad batting performances; New Zealand cricket team versus the West Indies; Wellington stadium; Military input on unemployment; Australia plans 2 year delay on Kiwi dole; Streakers in cricket. Quantity: 6 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, various sizes.

Date: 1939-1945

By: Brown, Rachel, active 1990s-2022

Reference: PAColl-4913

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1949

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: PAColl-4161-01-033

Description: Arrangement: Negatives housed at F 176170 1/2 - F 176186 1/2 and at F 26924 1/1 Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1945-1948]

From: Harper, Ian, fl 1946-1967 : Photographs relating to service in J Force

Reference: PAColl-8022-1

Description: Photographs fall into two general groups. One group relates to aerial battles at sea with views of aircraft on the decks of carriers, in the air, dog fights indicated by vapour trails, sinking ships, troops dropped by paracutes, and burning buildings. The other, larger group, were taken while Ian Harper was serving with J Force, part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, Japan. During this time he was a driver in the Transport Section of Headquarters Company, 27 Battalion based in Yamaguchi. Photographer(s) unidentified. None of the photographes are identified, except for an aerial view of Camp Canturbury Barracks at Yamaguchi. Quantity: 97 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1900

By: Army and navy gazette (Periodical); Simkin, R, active 1900

Reference: A-018-024-a

Description: Subject: Members of Hawera Mounted Rifles, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, Tasmanian Infantry, Victoria Rifles, Christchurch City Guards At head of sheet: Military types--No. 154. See Photo file for photocopy of watercolour original Same as A-018-024 A copy sold at Cordy's auction, Auckland, 17 July 2001, 'Sold with original catalogue'. Auctioneer's valuation $250 Extended Title - Supplement to: The Army & Navy gazette, 6 Oct. 1900 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 252 x 353 mm