Benghazi

Date: 1940-1945

By: King, Russell David, 1896-1970

Reference: PAColl-3179

Description: Because the photographer was one of the commanding officers of the Field Ambulance many of the photographs are snaps of officers and visiting commanders and officials. Other photographs show the Field Ambulance in operation in various theatres of the war, on leave and playing sport. The largest group of photographs are of a tourist type showing historical sites, architecture, places of scenic interest and the native populations Arrangement: Negatives at F66732-1/4 - F66784-1/4 Quantity: 53 b&w original negative(s). 625 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-0247, Russell David King papers.

Date: 1939-1945

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-296

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and England during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Includes photographs of New Zealand fighter and bomber pilots serving with the Royal Air Force, and several British Official photographs relating to New Zealand fighter pilot with the RAF, James Allen Ward, who was awarded the Victoria Cross. Most individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include a visit by NZ soldiers to stables run by the Egyptian Government at Heliopolis; a NZ military band on tour in Palestine as part of a recruiting campaign; the arrival of the first party of Women's War Service Auxiliary in Egypt, and scenes of their life in the Welfare Section and at the New Zealand Forces Club (p 7, p 146-149); and RNZAF trainees at the Air Observer School, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. Life, military training and manouevres in the Western desert; ordnance workshops; the advance in the Western Desert; a NZ medical unit, a mobile surgical unit; hospital scenes (p 100, 103-105, 111). Sporting and entertainments include a wood-chopping "Axemen's Carnival" in South England; rugby matches in the Western Desert (p 29, 37-38, 82-83, 85, 93, 101-103, 107, 109); swimming (probably at Baggush; p 38-40, 44); and Christmas celebrations in the desert, including the Kiwi Concert Party (p 122-129); and a view of the YMCA Hostle at Alexandria. Inspection of NZ reinforcements in Egypt by William J Jordan (NZ High Commissioner in London); General Auchinleck presenting decorations to NZ soldiers, and reviewing NZ troops on the eve of the Libyan Campaign (p 49-57, 111-115); the Western Desert Battle, NZers bringing in German Prisoners of War; German General von Ravenstein captured by NZ troops, and scenes of various captured German vehicles, gas masks, a Nazi whip, and weapons; the Libyan advance (p 63-72); and the Railway Construction Unit in the Western Desert. Scenes of a New Zealand fighter squadron in Malaya (p 80-81, 87-89). NZers in Tobruk (p 96-99); one view of NZers at a Prisoner of War Camp in Germany (Stalag VI B) taken by Lieutenant Rangi (p 108); NZers arriving back at Base Camp after 5 weeks of imprisonment at Bardia, some of whom are named (p 117-121); four NZ soldiers who walked from Benghazi to west of Gazala (listed above); manouevres after the Libyan Campaign. Presentation of decorations by General Freyberg to members of the 2nd NZEF in hospital; views of a NZ Spitfire Squadron operating with the RAF Fighter Command, the planes subscribed for by the people of NZ (p 138-141); reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 133-138). Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 1227-1668. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1941? to 1943

By: McLean, Stuart, active 1941-1945

Reference: PA1-o-314

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by Corporal Stuart McLean when with the 2NZEF in the Middle East, 1941 to 1942. Photographs mostly of street scenes, monuments, and historic sites in Egypt, Libya and Israel. A few photographs show scenes associated with World War II, including group portraits of soldiers in Stuart McLean's company, war damage in Tripoli which fell to the 8th Army, 23rd January 1943, and war cemeteries in Jerusalem, Bagush and Takrouna. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue leather cover, coloured illustration in the centre, with an Egyptian scene including pyramids, palms and a camel; 21 x 28 cm

Date: 1941-1943

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: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-075

Description: Photograph taken during 8th Army's advance into Libya (some with captions). Includes captured and destroyed German tanks, planes and equipment; German and Italian POWs; photo of General von Ravenstein at Tobruk talking with British staff officer; Maori soldiers with POWS captured at Fort Capuzzo, 1941; senior officers of NZ Engineer Unit with captured German motor bike; eight-wheeled German armoured car with 75 mm gun. Photographs taken from German prisoners in Middle East showing German tanks parading through Benghazi reviewed by General Rommel; mosque at Sidi Rezegh; motar crew; boxing match; military graves; General von Ravenstein's marked map (1941); captured tank; etc. Collapse of Axis resistance, including motorised POW unit. Italian and German POWS in Tunisia (some taken by Mr Elias), 1943 E series photograph, mainly showing action in the desert and general desert scenes. Two images taken at the time of the Battle of Hamma, including enemy troop-carrier. Quantity: 69 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1945

By: Crawford, William Gifford-Merrilees, active 1939-2003

Reference: PA1-o-1200

Description: Views of North Africa and the Mediterranean during World War II, taken and collected by William Crawford during service with the Royal Air Force in the Western Desert. Includes photographs of ships, prisoners of war, cemeteries, buildings and street scenes. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue leather album with Egyptian designs 26.6 x 34.3 cm, containing 215 photographs Provenance: Donated by Mr William Crawford, June 2003

Date: 1941 - 1945

From: Scoullar, Leo Bryan, 1917-2010: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-1615

Description: Mostly photographs relating to Allied prisoners of war in Germany and Italy. The German images relate to Stalag VIIA and Pasing in Munich. The Italian images relate to Campo PG 78/1 at Aquafredda. Other images relate to Bari and Benghazi in Libya. Quantity: 44 b&w original photographic print(s) in 2 envelopes. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MSX-2948-2950.

Date: 1940-1943

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: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-200

Description: Photographs of the paintings done by Peter McIntyre, official New Zealand war artist, during the war in North Africa. Also photographs of the opening of exhibition of NZ official war artists paintings at NZ Forces Club, Cairo. Includes photos of exhibition guests including Sir Miles Lampson, Lady Freyberg, Jean Begg, and Captain Peter McIntyre. Large number of captioned photos of McIntyre's war paintings done in North Africa (multiple copies of many); also portraits of Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell; Miss E M Nutsey; Charles Upham; General Sir Bernard Montgomery; war correspondent Norman Johnston; Gunner Sanders; others (unidentified). Scenes painted at Sollum Pass; near Daba; El Alamein; Minqar Qaim (Jun 1942); Belhamid; Takrouna; North African coast; Corridor of Tobruk; Tobruk; Benghazi; Sidi Rezegh; Tripoli; Capuzzo; Maadi; Siwa; Sidi Barrani. Quantity: 162 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1941-1942

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-4161-01-072

Description: Some photographs include captions. Truck on fire at Minqar Qaim, SE of Marsa Matruh; recapture of Sidi Rezegh - NZ artillery shelling enemy positions during Libyan advance, 1942 ; The Battle of Nofilia; forces taking Sollum village; South African forces at Halfaya, 1942; British tank crew cleaning themselves up after the occupation of Capuzzo, and Mussolini statuary outside Fort Capuzzo, 1941; NZ POWs return from Bardia (recaptured by South African forces); Benghazi (near Bardia) showing airfield with wreckage enemy planes. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940-1983

From: Creator unknown: Photographs of North African scenes during World War II

Reference: PA1-o-1566

Description: Photographs of the troopship Strathaird, 1942 wedding to a unnamed French woman in Egypt, daughter Ann Ellen (born circa 1945 in Egypt), son Richard, arrival back to Wellington in 1948, residences in La Marsa, Benghazi and Tripoli 1947-1952,, daughter Ann winning a beauty pageant in Tripoli 1952, training camps in New Zealand, desert warfare in Egypt, Baghdad Villa at Claridge in 1960, family bathing at Eastbourne Beach in 1983. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 220 x 310 mm

Date: 1941 to 1942

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: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-297

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and England during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include physical training at the School of Instruction, Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 1-2, 93); scenes with His Excellency the Governor-General of NZ, Sir Cyril Newall, visiting Samoa and Fiji in 1942 (p 2-7); New Zealand members of ski units including members of the Maori Battalion at the Ninth Army Ski School in Syria; NZEF and Red Cross distribution of flour to Syrian people; parade through Aleppo. Officers, nursing sisters and Lady Freyberg at Anzac Day service at Maadi Camp in 1942; the visit of the NZ High Commissioner to a "west coast port", William Jordan and officers of NZ ships; arrival of pilots and observers for the RAF; scenes with King George VI & Queen Elizabeth visiting RAF Bomber Command, and the King watching landing exercises in Scotland. New Zealanders after withdrawing from the Libyan engagement; engineers constructing roads, lines of communication and supply in Transjordan; working with Arabs, reconstructing ancient wells; NZers in Amman. Group of NZers at Rouen sent back to Germany when arrangement with German authorities for mutual repatriation of prisoners broke down; NZ medical personnel repatriated from Italy to the Middle East under the Geneva Convention (many named); the Duke of Gloucester visiting the NZ camp at Maadi; locomotives being unlaoded on lighters and NZ engineers in their living quarters on the lighters at a Syrian port. The Pacific War Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Entertainment and sport for NZ troops in the Middle East included cricket, racing, bathing in the Dead Sea, boxing and wrestling championships. Campaign against malaria, widening and deepening drains; participation at the Western desert battle front; Visit of a party of NZers to a bandit stronghold in Syra (p 62-64); Sergeant James Allen Ward's VC with illustrations (p 71-72); Winston Churchill visiting NZers in the Western Desert (p 77-80, 82); the Alamein front; the NZ General Hospital at Beirut in Syria housed in former French barracks (p 86-90). A studio party in New York for Unted Servicement; a New York Bond Party; and later, a group of NZers in New York. RNZAF training in Canada (group portrait); NZers in North Western Alaska, and a group of wireless operators in Canada. Recipients of awards (named above); Kiwi Concert Party. Pursuit of the Axis Forces and war material abandoned by Germans and Italians (p 104-125); advance to Tripoli (p 128-138). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

Date: 1941-1944

From: Johnston, Ian Thomas Young, 1912- :Photographs relating to Johnston's service in World War Two

Reference: PA1-o-1196

Description: Photographs collected by Johnston while serving in North Africa, the Middle East and Italy during World War Two, 1941-1944. The photographs include views of cities and towns visited, photographs taken from a camera of a dead German soldier, scenes of a communal settlement in Palestine, and views of officers on leave in Alexandria. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [ca 26 Dec 1941]

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: Silk, George, 1916-2004

Reference: DA-02281-F

Description: Four New Zealander soldiers with a 25 pound howitzer gun shelling the enemy at long range during the advance to Benghazi, Libya, during World War 2. Photograph taken by George Silk, circa 26 December 1941. Note on back of file print reads: Gazala battle Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: ca 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: Dixon, H R, active 1942

Reference: DA-10603-F

Description: Air force raid on Benghazi Harbour, Libya, as seen from prison camp 116 (Palm Tree). Photograph taken by H R Dixon, circa 1942. Note on back of file print reads "PW - Allied - Cyrenaica" Caption from back of file print reads: "The result of a very successful Air Force raid on Benghazi Harbour one late afternoon when three ships were smashed. This incidently [sic] raised our hopes of not being shipped away. Note blankets airming on barbed wire of prison camp." Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 12 x 8.9 cm

Date: 17 July 1942

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: Steward, L, active 1942

Reference: DA-10889

Description: Prisoner of war camp 116 (Palm Tree) in Libya, Benghazi, 17 July, 1942. Photograph taken by L Steward. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1942

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: Dixon, H R, active 1942

Reference: DA-10608

Description: Camp 116 (Palm Tree), for prisoners of war, in Benghazi, Libya. Taken by H R Dixon in 1942. Negative is covered with light scratches Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca Feb 1941]

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-01570

Description: Unidentified soldier by a stack of rifles captured in the fall of Benghazi, Libya, during World War 2. Photograph taken circa February 1941 by an unidentified British Official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin 10 x 12.5 cm

Date: 1942

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: Dixon, H R, active 1942

Reference: DA-10602

Description: Six prisoners of war from camp 116 (Palm Tree) in Benghazi, Libya. They had been living in the camp for about three months. Taken by H R Dixon in 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 10 Jan 1942

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-02356-F

Description: Unidentified soldier stands looking at sign posts in Benghazi, Libya, during World War II. Photograph taken on 10 January 1942 by a British official photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative