Ploegsteert Wood

Date: [ca 1917-1918]

By: Harries, Leonard Cyril David, 1896-1971; Randell, Diana, 1928-2001

Reference: PA1-o-1517

Description: Photographs of World War I, Belgium and France, taken ca 1917-1918 and compiled into an album by Len Harries. Most of the photographs have been captioned by Harries but the donor has written additional captions to identify Harries in some of the photographs. Includes photographs of groups of soldiers, damaged buildings and tanks (including Cloth Hall in Ypres), craters, local women and children, aircraft, soldiers in a trench, stretcher bearing. The photographs of France show Ambleteuse and Selles Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album, 15.2 x 20.7 cm Provenance: Len Harries was a cousin of the donor's father and Harries met the donor's mother, Gwendoline Ryall (later Randell), while on leave in England. He left the album with her when he returned to New Zealand.

Date: 1918

From: Cochran, Hector Roy, fl 1900-1970s :Nomad; a New Zealand footslogger's Grand tour, 1916-1919.

Reference: E-317-q-005-1

Description: Two ruined buildings in Belgium, sketched from memory Hill 63 was the military code name for a hill in Belgium (Messines sector) during World War One. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of drawing, 120 x 152 mm on page 325 x 260 mm

Date: [ca 1880-1945]

By: Argosy Industrial Photos; Sherlock, William, 1846-1910; Rohloff, L, active 1910s; Photographie Henri (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0411

Description: Photographs mostly of the ambulance corps in the First World War but also including at least one from the Second World War, family photographs in New Zealand and newspaper clippings. The First World War photographs include some with names on the reverse. The names given are: from the 13th Field Ambulance Johnsonville, Sergeants Sid Jones, Harry Woods, Clarence(?) Crooks, Jack Harris, Roy Kennedy, Ivan Haldreth, Ernie Wilson, Jim Bennett, Chris Parsons and Staff-Sergeants Quartermain and Bert Orange; from the No. 3 Field Ambulance, Shearer, Perrett(?), Cook, Hooper, Gilmour, Cable, Franks, Dunn, Netge(?), Regan, Greenslade, Myers, Dick, Anderson, Buchanan, Sgt Block, Staff Sgt Dredge, Capt Finlayson, Sgt Dillon, Sgt Lawrence, Sgt Evans, Sgt Fogg, Burgess, Spooner, Moxham, Dyson, Perry, Stevenson, Wickstead; from No. 3 Field Ambulance cooks, Simpson, Smith, Pearce, Spooner, Slade, Cook, Bellesden, McNaughton, McPherson. Scenes include the No 3 Field Ambulance headquarters at Louvencourt, New Zealand and Australian troops in Paris and Versailles, and Corporal Milne and Leading Aircraftman McMillan on a camel in Giza. There are also two photographs one of the 13th Field Ambulance and the other of a farewell dinner which are completely captioned for names including a typed list of the entire unit. The newspaper clippings are from a variety of publications and are mostly official photographs. The civilian photographs include: a photograph of Eric Liddell with his signature attached; two of a large group of veterans on the terracing at a sports ground; and two cartes de visite one of an older woman and one of a young boy. Also includes a copy of the brochure 'Le Pantheon de la Guerre'. Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-012915-G

Description: Stretcher bearers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher along a dirt track in Ploegsteert Wood near the Western Front. In the background are New Zealand dugouts. In the foreground is a large shell hole filled with water. Photograph taken 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H223 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-012905-G

Description: Network of dug-outs constructed in Ploegsteert Wood. Shows military camp buildings? through the trees. A soldier walks along a duckboard in front of the sandbagged dug-outs. Photograph taken 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H212 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-012790-G

Description: Soldiers filling water bottles near Ploegsteeert Wood, Belgium, during heat wave. Photograph taken 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - H79 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1917

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-012899-G

Description: Stretcher bearers carry wounded soldier over open ground near Ploegsteert Wood, Ypres salient. Photograph taken 1917 by Henry Armytage Sanders. An original print from this negative is in album PA1-f-091 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H205 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4 x 5 inches