Burnham

Date: 1939-1941

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: PAColl-4161-01-015-07

Description: First, Second and Third Echelons in taining at various military camps and departing from Lyttelton, Wellington, and Auckland Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1950 - 1953

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Nash, Percival Frederick, -1952; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Paul Popper Ltd

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-013

Description: Photographs of military aircraft, troopships and soldiers at Burnham and Waiouru military bases training for K Force operations, taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Also photographs of Malaysian police guarding Chinese-owned tin mines from Communist bandits in 1951 and one photograph of Russian police at the Brandenburg Gate in 1953. Photographers include George Weigel and Paul Popper. Quantity: 52 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

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

By: Elmar Studios; Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-222

Description: Miscellaneous uncaptioned photographs. Include: Panorama of Cassino (mounted); linesmen up a power pole; tukutuku panels and carved panels in a Maori meeting house (photographer J T Salmon); anti-tank practise; V8 engine; grave of regimental mascot No 1 dog Major Major (d 1944); WAACS on board transport ship; Maori soldier; NZer in Long Range Desert Group; Burnham Military Camp, 1939 (photographer Elmar Studios) Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [2001]

By: O'Leary, Francis James, 1921-

Reference: MS-Papers-7258

Description: A biographical account of the life of Arthur Patrick O'Leary from his birth to his mid-20s describing his family life, the hardship following his father's death, his time in orphanages and later in Burnham borstal, working on the Holly family farm at Leeston under a Burnham scheme and their help in allowing him to escape from it, his various jobs and some war service experiences. Source of title - Transcribed The account was written by Frank O'Leary, the donor, compiled by Tony and Denise Craft and edited by Diane Latter, all descendants of Arthur Patrick O'Leary. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (34 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs N Orr, Auckland, Oct 2001

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: PAColl-4161-01-015-02

Description: Life and training at Trentham Military Camp, training at Burnham Military Camp, Home Guard, Ruapehu draft parading through Wellington Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1939 - 1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Snowden, James Robert, 1904-1982; Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-012

Description: Photographs of recruitment and enlistment, soldiers in military training camps at Papakura (1939-1940) and Burnham (1940) and soldiers in Rarotonga and Egypt, taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of the Maori Battalion and General Freyberg. Photographers include B Snowden, A W Powell, George Weigel and S C Smith. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1941-1945

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: PAColl-4161-01-194

Description: Series of interior and exterior photographs of various Dental Sections in NZ taken 1945. Include: Woodbourne; Trentham Camp Dental Hospital; Whenuapai; Burnham; HMS Philomel; Hobsonville. Various captioned photographs. Includes: NZDC POW dental section at Oflag V B, Biberach, Germany; 2 NZEP IP (Treasury Island, Bourail, Green Island); Vella Lavella; senior dental officers in New Caledonia; officers of 10 MOB Dental Section, 1944 (named); group of medical and dental staff BHQ 30 NZ Bn, Nissan Island; group photo of Dental Section, Pacific Area (unidentified); 22 Field Ambulance; Dental Section CCS Guadalcanal, AWWS HQ Guadalcanal; No 1 Max-Fac Dental Section, 4 Gen Hospital, New Caledonia; ATD Camp, Nemeara Valley; Dental Section RNZAF Station, Espiritu Santo; mobile dental section, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal ; Fiji detachment, 1944; Base Hygiene Section; Bougainville staff and surgery, 1944-1945; Field force exercises, 1941-1942; prosthetic truck; aerial view of mobile Dental Section area at Guadalcanal and plan of the area; aerial view of 10 MOB Dental Section HQ, Port Cruz, Guadalcanal; group photo of staff at Bn HQ; Lt Col O E L Rout and staff at Dental HQ; No 2 Max-Fac Dental Section. No 2 NZCCS, Guadalcanal; dental mechanics at work at an under-canvas dental hospital; Field dentistry at 53rd [?] Tank camp at Nissan; embarkation from New Caledonia to Guadalcanal, 1943 (group photo); 6 Squadron RNZAF 1945 (staff at Halavas); Dental Section at Emirau 1944-1945 (groups named and camp site). Quantity: 275 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1938 - 1952

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-027

Description: Photographs of Canterbury Region made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance between 1938 and 1952. Includes a series of photographs, dated 23 February 1938, recording the clean up after a flood in an unidentified location, probably in the Canterbury region. Also includes photographs of pea crops and tulip harvesting in Waimate. Quantity: 59 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 15 Feb 2006

From: Second World War oral history project: Home Front

By: Rowe, Hazel May, 1923-2014

Reference: OHInt-0827-11

Description: Interview with Hazel Rowe (nee Davis), born Christchurch, 23 July 1923. Talks about her father Leonard William Davis, a station master with New Zealand Railways, and her mother Bertha Cecilia (Bessie, nee Bull). Refers to her father, a World War I veteran, being an Air Force reservist in World War II and spending time in the Solomon Islands. Talks about her brother being in the merchant navy during the War, and her future husband in the Air Force. Recalls attending WWSA (Women's War Service Auxiliary) meetings, learning drill and signalling. Discusses enlisting in the Army in 1942 and basic training at a camp at Addington racecourse where she was promoted to drill sergeant after three weeks. Talks about conditions in the camp, food, accommodation and discipline. Outlines beginning officer training at Trentham Army Camp but then being sent to the Melrose school of artillery for training as a range-finder for anti-aircraft gunnery. Refers to being posted to the Mt Pleasant anti-aircraft battery (port hills above Lyttelton) in February 1943. Mentions living conditions at Mt Pleasant, the behaviour of male sergeants towards the women, lectures from the Army Education Welfare Service, and a wooden fence between the men's and women's huts. Refers to the arrival of radar at the battery. Describes being transferred to Burnham Camp to work in WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) headquarters. Recalls officers including Mavis Davidson and Vida Jowett, the camp swimming pool, entertainment, and a snow storm in 1945. Discusses the uniform, inspections, mail censorship, and men with venereal disease having to wear yellow patches. Recalls the arrival in Burnham of British ex-prisoners of war who had been in Changi prison camp. Mentions being discharged from the Army in December 1945 and marrying Edward (Ted) Rowe in January 1946. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - printout from Women's Royal Army Corps website (4 p.) including two webpages about Sergeant Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015246, OHC-015247 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.07 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5528 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. photocopy of photograph of Sergeant Hazel Davis in uniform Search dates: 1923 - 1939 - 2006 - 1945

Date: 1961

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the New Zealand Army, volunteers, soldiers of regular forces]

Reference: Eph-A-ARMY-1961-01

Description: Booklet includes a list of the Senior Officers of 1 NZ Regiment, a page about the colours, the order of proceedings for the Consecration of the Colours, photographs of the Queen's Colours, and the Regimental Colour, the Order of Parade, a history of the 1 NZ Regiment, and a programme of music by the band of the First Battalion, The New Zealand Regiment. The back page has notes for visitors. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, 218 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by George Tikao, brother of Tony Tikao, Christchurch, 2014. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is held at PAColl-10204..

Date: 1968 - 1969

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to the New Zealand Army, volunteers, soldiers of regular forces]

Reference: Eph-B-ARMY-1968-02

Description: A letter commanding attendance at the annual Brigade Group Training Camp at Burnham, 1-14 March 1969, gives details of reporting times, leave applications, pay scales. This letter is addressed to Lance-Corporal [Tony] Tikao. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Mimeograph and holograph, on sheet 335 x 205 mm. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is held at PAColl-10204..

Date: [1941?]

By: Gosney, Robert, active 2016; McNaughton, Julie, active 1940s

Reference: MS-Papers-12078

Description: Letter, written on "Tuesday night" but actual date unknown, by Roger Craig to his girlfriend, Julie McNaughton, who lived in Invercargill. Roger Craig was stationed as a gunner with A Troop, 1 Training Battery, at Burnham Military Camp. Describes activites, including "shooting off the 24 pounders" at Birdling's Flat, practising setting up field telephone systems and leisure activities, including playing cricket against other units at Burnham Camp. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 1 letter of 2 pages, 1 envelope. Physical Description: Manuscripts, holograph and typescript, and printed souvenir envelope. Provenance: Letter found by donor in a book purchased at a book fair in Palmerston North in 2016. The book was 'The will of the tribe' by Arthur Upfield. The presence of a Health Stamp Souvenir Cover suggests that the letter was written in 1941.

Date: 20 September 1939-1 January 1940

From: Neil family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12059-01

Description: Contains correspondence from Arthur James Neil to his wife Deanie Robina Olive Neil while he was training at Burnham Military Camp prior to World War II, 2 November to 5 January 1940. Also includes one telegram to Major Neil from the Land and Income Tax Department instructing him to report for duty, 20 September 1939. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing holograph letters and a telegram. Physical Description: Holograph letters and envelopes, telegram

Date: 6-23 January 1944

From: Neil family: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-12059-30

Description: Correspondence from Arthur James Neil to his wife Deanie Robina Olive Neil during his service in World War II. Written from Burnham Military Camp and other locations in New Zealand as well as from on board a troop ship, 6 to 23 January 1944. Includes description of work and conditions on board the boat. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing holograph letters. Physical Description: Holograph letters and envelopes

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Akaroa scenes] / Cranleigh Barton [ca 1950]

Reference: A-227-296

Description: Shows a road lined by trees leading to a house. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

Date: 1939-1941

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: PAColl-4161-01-015-04

Description: First Echelon at Trentham 1939, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1941, Third Echelon departing from Wellington, drafting and training of Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, the building of Waiouru Military camp. Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1939-1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-182

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, 1939-1953 A.N.A. Dance (group of men from United Services), undated; Otago Patriotic Council committee at a social and dance at the Town Hall (includes Mayor of Dunedin, A H Allen & Mrs Allen and others, all named on verso), Aug 1940; Lord Montgomery accompanied by Dr J Kennedy Elliot, examines work being done by W Greenbank at Returned Servicemen's Training Centre, Wellington; Patriotic Fund drive for funds at Hamilton, 1940 (parade), and Dunedin, Oct 1940 (archery competition); playhouse built and furnished by an Invercargill firm to be raffled to raise funds for London victims of air-raids, 1940; send-off for Hastings soldiers; fond farewell at Timaru station, Oct 1939; Timaru soldiers led by Municipal Band marching down the main street, Oct 1939; volunteers enlisting at Auckland, Sep 1939; crowd at Wellington Railway Station waving goodbye from the platform, Oct 1939. Special force in training at Trentham; members of Marlborough branch of National Reserve on guard duty at a military depot; civic farewell for Marlborough soldiers at Blenheim, Oct 1939. Dunedin recruits departing from railway station for training for the Special Force; New Plymouth volunteer at railway station before Special Force left town; Canterbury men for Special Force marching; funeral of Lance-Corporal James Thomas Nelson held at Invercargill includes members of the Special Force, Dec 1939. Napier volunteer nurses who won the Collins Cup V.A.D. competition, and Wellington team who were runners-up; Red Cross nurses at Burnham Military Camp, Dec 1939; training of members of Auckland Calliope Sea Scouts Troop which reformed in Oct 1939; painting a merchant ship `battleship-grey' as a war precaution, Sep 1939 Army Stage Recruiting Rally in Featherston Street, Wellington; Mayor of New Plymouth with waste material collection, Sep 1940; washing-up at Camp; wet canteen; outdoor wet canteen at Burnham, Dec 1939; dental tent, Nov 1939. Patriotic Fund related photographs: Boys' war effort at Westport, 1940 - Collecting pine cones, collecting beer bottles, fretwork, chopping firewood; children's `shop' at Terrace end, Palmerston North, 1940; decorated bicycle at Levin, 1940; horse and cart in main road of Gisborne during petrol restrictions, 1939; stock sale at Waipukerau to raise funds, Dec 1940; Home Guard display at Hastings Watty Nelson (singer) photographed at Otaki with brothers Jack and `Hec' Merrylees (formerly of Dannevirke) of third Echelon, Aug 1940 Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1939-1941

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: PAColl-4161-01-015-10

Description: First, and Third Echelons in training at various military camps, being farewelled and departing from Christchurch Wellington, and Auckland Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings

Reference: 1/4-074790-F

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

Date: 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-4161-01-015-06

Description: The training and departure from Wellington and Auckland of the Second Echelon, 1940 Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).