Lebanon

Date: 1939 - 1944

From: Baker, Frederick (Lieutenant-Colonel), 1908-1958 :Maps related to the North African Campaign, World War, 1939-1945

By: Baker, Frederick, 1908-1958; Baker, Edna Mavis, 1909-1987; Baker, Francis Gordon Frederick, active 1989; Institut Geographique National (France). Annexe au Levant

Reference: MapColl-502hkm/1939-/Acc.39537

Description: Coverage of this topographic map is mainly of the countries of Syria and Lebanon. Boundaries are shown between parts of the countries of Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. Roads, railways and pipelines are referred to in a key. See record for the World War II map folder at MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39541 Accompanied by a canvas and leather combined message case and map bag. See MapColl--f502hkm/1939-/Acc.39542 Other Titles - Syria and Lebanon Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Baker was Commander of the 28th Battalion (Maori Battalion) when engaged in active service in North Africa Quantity: 1 map(s) accompanied by a set of chinagraph pencils attached to cardboard folder with wooden spine measuring 39.7 x 30 cm.. Physical Description: Printed map, coloured Provenance: Owned by Frederick Baker and donated by Gordon Baker, November 1989 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - from MS-Group-0079. Deed of gift at 10/11 dated 22 Nov 1989.

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: 2007-2008

By: McMahon, Jennifer A (Dr), active 2009

Reference: MSX-8290

Description: Bound volume is an unpublished printed manuscript assembled and edited by Dr Jenny McMahon and Marion Picken. Material covers 1960-2008 and comprises individual stories by New Zealand Red Cross Delgates of their missions overseas. Each story is accompanied by photographs, and a seperate series of photographic essays is included at the end of the book. Source of title - Transcribed from item Other Titles - Not just an ordinary job - Memories from NZRC international delegates Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Ms J McMahon, Otago, Feb 2009

Date: 1940s

From: Jackson, E R C (Lieutenant), 1907- :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War II

Reference: PA1-q-327

Description: Album compiled by Lieutenant E R C Jackson, which includes commercial views of the Middle East, India and Sydney; one section shows war photographs.. The first group consists of postcards of Egypt (some coloured), particularly of Cairo and the pyramids, and the Suez Canal. Pages 33-47 are in numbered sequences of 20 scenes, each one with a small index inserted at the beginning. They include views of Lebanon and Syria, in particular Aleppo (now Halab), Hama (or Hamah), Homs (or Hims), and Damascus. Pages 48-50 are commercial views of Greece, particularly Athens. Pages 57-73 are chiefly scenes of war in the Middle East, including one of a dead parachutist, a German war cemetery, a German prisoner and a series of attacks on Italian shipping. Some show groups of soldiers in the desert, and two are of Montgomery of Alamein. A further series of commercial scenes are of Cairo, Nazareth, Tiberias, and Haifa, finishing with views of Sydney. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leatherette loose-bound abum, entitled `Photographs'; 27 x 35 cm

Date: 1970-1980

From: Basham, Barbara Isobel Louise, 1915-2002 : Papers

Reference: fMS-Papers-6935-3

Description: Scrapbook compiled from photographs, brochures and clippings relating to Basham's travels in 1970 to Greece, Turkey, Israel, Spain and other parts of Europe, and North America; also includes clippings relating to her work and retirement upt to 1980 Relationship complexity - See also MSX-5703 and MSX-5704 for diaries of 1970 travels Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1992

From: Clark, Laurence [Klarc] 1949- :Editorial cartoons. 1 - 31 December 1992

Reference: H-112-014

Description: Shows a long line of people with suitcases and packs marching away from Israel to Lebanon. The star of Bethlehem shines in the sky. Refers to the expulsion of a group of Palestinians from Israel and Lebanon's refusal to grant them entry Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s).

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas 1947- : Cartoons entered in the 1992 Qantas Media Awards. 1992

Reference: H-223-026

Description: Shows the first Christmas Eve, when there was no room at the inn, and Christmas Eve 1992 when Lebanon and Israel barricaded against the Palestinians. Refers to the expulsion of a group of Palestinians from Israel and Lebanon's refusal to allow them to enter Lebanon. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: 1942

From: Searell, Luscombe Arthur :Albums of photographs of 2NZEF in Lebanon, Western Desert and Italy

Reference: PA1-o-943

Description: Photographs cover time spent in Lebanon, much of it in Beirut, during April and May 1942. It begins in Egypt at Maadi and Helwan, but these do not comprise more than half a dozen prints. Most of them are rest and recreation photographs, but there are some relating to combat training. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: [Between 1939 and 1945]

By: Lake, Sarah Elizabeth, 1948-

Reference: PAColl-8981

Description: Photographs relating to Douglas (Doug) Lake's service as a clerk in the Middle East and North Africa during World War II. Includes photographs of graves, Winston Churchill and General Freyberg, vehicles, the Wailing Wall, a blackboard menu for Christmas dinner in Egypt, sports teams, ancient ruins, and groups of soldiers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Arranged loosely into original groupings Quantity: 161 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) coloured by hand. 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1543 : Lake, Sarah Elizabeth, 1948- : Lake family paper. Photographs had been loose amongst army letters..

Date: 1990-1998

From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-7811-277

Description: Rough notes compiled by McNeish while on visits to South Canterbury and Europe. Includes appointment diaries and calendar. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [1920-1981]

By: McKenzie, William Henry Purvis (Rev), 1888-1958

Reference: MS-Group-0551

Description: Comprises book of press clippings in New Zealand (1920s) and `Presybterian messenger' (Melbourne) (1956-1957); copy of charges brought against McKenzie (1920s); notebook of talks/sermons on worship, prayer etc; letter, Rev Peter McKenzie to Miss Adele Rooney (1981); biographical notes on McKenzie compiled by Tom Haslett Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 2 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (some photocopies) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Dr F G Engel, Roseville, NSW, Australia, Mar 1997 Transfers: To Book Collections - Frank Engel, `Living in a world community' (1994).

Date: 1940 - 1943

By: Kay, Robin Langford, 1919-2017

Reference: B-099-012/034

Description: Painted while with 2nd NZEF and show Bombay, Maadi Camp, Tobruk, Baalbek, Syria, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Cairo, Lebanon, etc Quantity: 23 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours, sizes vary

Date: 30 Aug 1942

By: Griffith, Rex Dennis, -1942

Reference: MS-Papers-2252

Description: Describes life at front in Egypt and his recent service in Syria and Lebanon. Also brief comments on activity of friends at Wai-iti, Waimea County. Source of title - Supplied title Griffith served with 26 Battalion Quantity: 1 folder(s) (14 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1992

From: Scott, Thomas 1947?- :The Evening Post; Cartoons, 1 - 24 December 1992

Reference: H-033-016

Description: Shows the first Christmas Eve, when there was no room at the inn, and Christmas Eve 1992 when Lebanon and Israel barricaded against the Palestinians. Refers to the expulsion of a group of Palestinians from Israel and Lebanon's refusal to allow them to enter Lebanon. Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide photograph

Date: [ca 1939-1945]

Reference: PA1-o-1537

Description: Photograph album comprising photographs and postcards taken and collected by GMC who served in the Middle East during World War II. Includes photographs of Middle East cities, harbours, buildings and portraits of New Zealand soldiers. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 170 x 250 mm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1982

From: Lynch, James, 1947-:Collection of original cartoons by James Lynch.

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-186-081

Description: Shows Israeli Prime Minister Menachen Begin driving a tank towards Beirut which is in flames in the distance. Om the ground lie skulls. Context: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was gaining a reputation for uncompromising reprisal, thus beginning an era of escalating tensions in the Middle East. (Context note by cartoonist) Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone on paper, 295 x 420 mm

Date: 2008-2009

By: Cedars of Lebanon Club; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-

Reference: OHColl-0890

Description: Interviews with people of Lebanese descent who now live in Dunedin. Recollections include parents migrating, being brought up with Lebanese traditions and mores, being part of the local Lebanese community and living in or visiting Lebanon during their life. Interviewees are Frank Coory, John Farry, Adele George, Phillip George, Richard Joseph, Diana Kearns, Joe La Hood, Alan McDonald, Bert Reid and Lelia Taylor. Accompanying material - "Index" carried in OHDL-000088 to OHDL-000089 is Diary of Jacob Habib (taken from website) Abstracted by - Helen Frizzell Awards/funding - Project received funding from Lottery Heritage and Environment grant Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Quantity: 10 digital sound recording(s). 10 printed abstract(s). 10 Electronic document(s) - abstracts. 11 digital photograph(s). 10 interview(s). 10 Electronic document(s) biographical information and agreement forms. Search dates: 2008 - 2009 Processing information: Digital component of collection is currently being processed by staff Skeletal records only for interviews; digital audio files and some digital abstracts yet to be uploaded (10 Sep 2009)

Date: 7, 15 Dec 1988 - 07 Dec 1988 - 15 Dec 1988

From: Presbyterian Support Otago Community History Programme: Walker Street oral history project

By: Farr, Albert Frances, 1914-2003

Reference: OHInt-0951-07

Description: Interview with Arthur Farr, born in Dunedin in 1914, in a Lebanese catholic family of eight children. Mentions his father was a traveller and watersider, and they were a very close family. Describes his childhood, favourite games and larrikin activities. Mentions local characters, including Ephie White, Lizzie Gibson and Sue Ham. Comments on meeting some prejudice against Lebanese at school. Remembers the Lebanese community as being very close. Talks about the family living in Lebanon from 1922 to 1926. Refers to serving in the New Zealand army Middle East Force 1940-1945. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - partial transcript accompanies abstract Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018457-018458; OHLCD-1203-1204 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6406 and OHDL-000766. Black and white photograph of Albert Farr (1988); b&w photocopy of a photograph of Albert Farr aged 3. Search dates: 1914 - 1988

Date: 25 May to 27 Oct 1988 - 24 May 1989 - 15 Aug to 17 Oct 1991 - 24 May 1988 - 17 Oct 1991

From: Presbyterian Support Otago Community History Programme: Walker Street oral history project

By: Joseph, Jamelee, 1904-1997

Reference: OHInt-0951-16

Description: Interview with Jamelee (or Jamelie) Joseph, born in Walker Street, Dunedin, in 1904, one of seven children in a Lebanese Catholic family. Talks about her parents having emigrated in the late 1890s and her father working as a hawker. Comments that because of his gambling the family sometimes faced hard times. Discusses attending St Joseph's School and Dunedin Technical College, but not being able to go to secretarial college because of the family's financial difficulties. Recalls in detail and candour her childhood and later life in the Walker Street area. Talks about marrying Jack Joseph of the Fahkri clan and also a resident of Walker Street, and the death of their infant son in 1940. Discusses how the onset of World War II gave her an opportunity to take up paid employment again, and working for Ross and Glendinning as a machinist until aged 67. Talks about travelling extensively overseas with her husband and living for a period in Lebanon. Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Accompanying material - photocopy of an article about Mrs Joseph (Otago Daily Times, 9.5.1991) Accompanying material - partial transcript, information about the Lettoof (Latouf) family, and research notes for the interviews with Mrs Joseph, in folder OHA-6415-2. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018493 - OHC-018502 Quantity: 10 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 3 interview(s). 9.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-6415 and OHDL-000768. Colour photograph of Jamelee Joseph (1988). Photocopies of b&w photographs of Jamelee Joseph: aged 16, in backyard at home, seeing cousins off at Dunedin Wharf Search dates: 1904 - 1991

Date: 1939-1942

From: Adams, Carolyn, 1948-: World War II papers and photographs relating to Chauncey Raymond William Adams

Reference: MS-Papers-12768-2

Description: Comprises four booklets owned by Private Chauney Raymond William Adams during his military service in World War Two. Includes two agendas from 1941 and 1942 which have been annonotated like a diary by Adams. The annotations begin 17 March 1941 and end 31 December 1941 and briefly describe Adams' activities and mindset. Also includes a bound volume titled "Steimatzy's Guides: Syria and Lebanon", which describes the two countries' geography, history, population, and administration. Also includes a bound volume of the New Testament. The cover has a crown on King George VI's initials on it. There is an accompanything printed message from the King. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 4 booklets. Physical Description: Four volumes up to the size of 16 x 12 cm. Processing information: The contents of MS-Papers-12768-2 and MS-Papers-12768-3 was delivered to the Library in a single folder; the material has now been housed in two separate folders for storage purposes. Original enclosure featuring annotations by donor has been disposed of for preservation purposes.