Mumbai

Date: ca 1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-599

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1931

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-6-015

Description: Four sketches of dhows as viewed from various angles. On the righthand side of the page is a side profile of a balding monk with a moustache and beard. Below this is a small drawing of a man wearing a hat. Other Titles - Franciscan monk Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 125 x 185 mm

Date: 15 May 1940-1942

Reference: MS-Papers-8892

Description: Partial transcript of Private Moresby's reminiscences as a soldier in the 2nd NZEF, Medical Corps, 2 General Hospital, serving in North Africa, entitled "Sayeeda Wog". First entry commences on 15 May 1940 with a parade of Medical Corps recruits in Rutland Street, Auckland. Embarked on troopships Mauretania and Ormonde (which was delayed in Bombay, India) to Egypt. Was stationed at Maadi Camp and throughout various camps in Egypt, Palestine and Libya. Final entry is of him climbing Mt Zion and finding a Australian Army Detention Centre. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Partial transcript possibly done by Brent Mackrell.

Date: 1887

From: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.

By: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907

Reference: E-022-q-014

Description: A view inside caves with columns, rooms and steps carved out Published as a chromolithograph, with title Elephanta Caves near Bombay, in The last voyage. Annie Brassey, 1887, opposite page 18. Other Titles - Mumbai Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's "Last voyage". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right: monogram, in red ink; beneath image: title and date, in red ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on sheet 305 x 207 mm.

Date: 1862

From: Simpson, William, 1823-1899 :Sketchbook. India, Madras, Bombay and voyage home. 1861-1862.

Reference: E-063-062

Description: Eight small sketches of Bombay police and other figures, mainly men showing the type of uniform, clothing and headwear worn. One sketch is labelled `Blue clothes with red and yell. pugrees'. Three other drawings have the colours of the garments indicated. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 78 x 138 mm

Date: 1862

From: Simpson, William, 1823-1899 :Sketchbook. India, Madras, Bombay and voyage home. 1861-1862.

Reference: E-063-070

Description: Side view of a man seated on the ground wearing a maroon turban and white costume. He is wearing a moustache and has an earring on his right ear. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, page size 78 x 138 mm

Date: 1917

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-291-q-006

Description: Three sketches: Top left - a full length profile portrait of a balding man in military uniform holding a sheet of paper Top right - a head and shoulders profile sketch of a soldier in a lemon-squeezer hat and military jacket with the collar turned up Bottom - Shows a full length portrait of a man, a British soldier, sleeping on a bed. Other Titles - Captain; Garden Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour sketches mounted on album page 336 x 238 mm.

Date: 1916

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-288-q-010

Description: Ink and wash drawing shows sketches of figures of men, both well-dressed and less formal. At top left is a man with a jacket and hat carrying a furled umbrella. At top right, two Parsis walk one behind the other; the front one has a fez-like hat. In the lower half of the page, two labourers wearing dhotis and turbans beat laundry on rocks in a river. The Dhobi are a caste group found in Pakistan and India who specialize in washing clothes. The Parsi were originally Zoroastrians of Persian origin. Other Titles - Parsees; Dhobi Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on page, 230 x 140 mm.

Date: 1887

From: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.

Reference: E-022-q-042

Description: On the left, a view of the word Victoria lit up on a bank across the Ganges at Bombay for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Crowds watch from the near bank. On the right, a man in uniform, with a long spear, inside an Indian palace. Another man with a sword at his side stands to the right A version of the left-hand view was published as a chromolithograph chapter-heading in The last voyage. Annie Brassey, 1887, page 9. The right-hand view waspublished as a wood engraving on page 60 with title Malabar Point. The Governor's bodyguard and peon Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's "Last voyage". Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image (in red ink) title and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: One ink and wash, one pencil drawing, on sheet 305 x 207 mm.

Date: 1862

From: Simpson, William, 1823-1899 :Sketchbook. India, Madras, Bombay and voyage home. 1861-1862.

Reference: E-063-085

Description: Drawing of the upper body of a seated man with a moustache and wearing a hat. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 78 x 138 mm

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: [1896-1971]

From: Tuckey, Frances Isobella, 1838-1913 : Letters from Richard Septimus Tuckey

Reference: MS-Papers-7819-01

Description: Letters from Dick Tuckey to his mother, writing from a hospital ship, the `Carthage', and from a sailor's home in Bombay; cards to Dick Tuckey from his cousin [?] Douglas, Nottingham; clipping about the New Vaal River Diamond Company, Captain Tuckey the director; various certificates, etc including appointment of Dick Tuckey as a private in the Cape Mounted Police (1910); letter from Mrs Tuckey to Dick Tuckey; letter from Robert to Peter regarding the discovery of the letters in this collection (1971); and other papers Accompanying material - Biographical information about the Tuckey family by Jean Tuckey Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: l957-1960

From: Horsman, John Irvin, 1925-1993: Photograph albums, chiefly relating to his world travels as a radio officer for the merchant navy

Reference: PA1-o-1901

Description: A travel album compiled by John Horsman, chiefly relating to his work as a radio operator on the merchant navy vessels MV 'Dumra', MV 'Aronda', 'Ozarda', 'Okhla', 'Padana' and 'Dominion Monarch' between 1957 and 1960. Voyages are chronologically documented by use of images, hand drawn maps, and notes on the ships. Images are postcards of locations visited during the voyages, and photographic prints chiefly taken by Horsman between 1957 and 1960. Photographer(s) of postcards are unidentified. - Covers voyages 1 and 2 on ship MV 'Dumbra' between April and June 1957. Shows views of Bombay, Bahrain, Muscat, Karachi. Includes snapshots of crew relaxing poolside at the British Club, Basra, and at Breach Kandy Club, Bombay (now Mumbai). - Covers voyage on MV 'Aronda' from June 1957 to January 1958. Images show Karachi and Colombo. Includes snapshots of Horsman socialising with fellow crew members on shore leave at Malabar Hill gardens, Bombay, and in a dinghy in Karachi harbour, camels hauling cargo on Karachi docks, Colombo port, and crew on deck. Also includes snapshot of Sue and Ernie Coward. - Covers voyages on ships 'Ozarda' GFBF and 'Okhla' GMNM between January and May 1958. Includes snapshots of crew at Malabar hotel and on deck. Also shows views of Cochin (Kochi), India; and Keppel Harbour, Singapore. - Covers voyage 6 to 9 on ship 'Padana' GFLZ between May 1958 and January 1960. Shows views of Colombo, Sri Lanka; Lyttelton, Christchurch, Auckland, New Zealand; Sydney, Australia; Canton (now Guangzhou, China); Kobe, Yokohama, Japan; Rangoon, Burma; Port Louis, Mauritius; Quelman, Lourenco Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique; Mombasa, Kenya; Lindi, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and London, England. Includes snapshots of Horsman and fellow crew members on board 'Padana' and on shore leave. Also includes prints of Horsman with a family in Dunedin. - Covers voyage on the 'Dominion Monarch' GRGG from January to March 1960. Shows views of Wellington and Capetown. Includes prints of the 'Dominion Monarch' ship. Also includes a handwritten note on a radio news item concerning side trip to Sydney during the voyage to deliver 3 year old Geraldine Foley to hospital after onboard diagnosis of acute appendictius. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cover, 23 x 29cm

Date: 21 Aug 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Hewett, Neale Brind Stuart, 1906-2005

Reference: OHInt-0562/01

Description: Neale Hewett talks about his birth in Burma in 1906. Mentions that many generations of his father and mother's side of the family served in the military in India. Details great grandfather's service and the family tradition. Describes himself and his father as Cape Horners. Mentions Dartmouth and Royal Navy. Talks about father's service in Burma and describes the influences of the King and Queen on their subjects. Details being sent to a home in Cheltenham, England at 4 years of age and school in Eastbourne until 13 holidays included, and not recognising his parents. Describes growing up without parents. Describes attending Pangbourne College aged 12, the Royal Naval Reserves and outlines his work including HMS Winchelsea testing poison gas. Outlines voyages with P&O to obtain his 2nd mate's ticket, enters the Royal Indian Marines. Describes the relief given at the 1923 Japanese earthquake.Talks about moving from ship to ship, having royalty as passengers, later surveying the coastline of India on the Investigator. Describes copying charts during the monsoon season. Talks about the closure of the Indian Navy and finding work with Bombay Burma Trading Company while continuing as a reserve officer with the Frontier Force Cavalry. At the outbreak of war describes re-entering the Navy. Describes his jobs and escorting the First NZ Echelon: taking a gunnery course, wanting to return to sea but having to train gunners. Describes the situation at the changeover in 1947 and gives reasons for retiring from the navy and leaving India. Talks about his parents, wife and children and his father wanting to retire to New Zealand. Mentions living in Australia with his children. Gives reason for moving to New Zealand, applying for citizenship, discovering that his father was a New Zealander and his mother's family were here also. Talks about his employment in commercial fishing and NZ Forest Products.. Relates his United Nations job in 1950's in various countries, describes the way he organised his work and staff. Describes the changes when a political element joined the UN, and his resignation. Compares the African independence with that of India. Describes wartime atrocities by the Japanese. Talks about his nationality and religion, and as it was in India. Talks about his accomodation, furnishings and places he called home, his servants who travelled with him, the meals, lifestyle and languages spoken. Relates meeting his wife, Thecla Edana Davis, and describes her background. Talks about his children's schools and education and family health. Mentions snake encounters. Details the clubs they belonged to in India, multiculturism and integration of races, talks of Anglo-Indians. Talks of partition. Mentions his impressions on his return to India. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Includes 2 leaves of notes about conversations held with Neale Hewett. One clarifies various subjects and the second conversation was over lunch with a neighbour. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008510, OHA-008511 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2644.

Date: 23 Aug 2000

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Dever, Jeanne-Marie Thecla, 1933-

Reference: OHInt-0562/04

Description: Jeanne Dever was born in 1933 in Bangalore, the daughter of Neale Hewett. Talks of boarding schools attended in India and England. Describes her reaction to the lack of privacy at these schools and her attitudes to learning. Talks of servants, her social life in clubs and the inability to take her Parsee friends to them. Details her family in India and talks of holiday activities in Karachi. Mentions beggars and caste differences. Talks of her clothing, mealtimes and the discipline meted out by mother. Talks of her father's attitude to partition. Mentions being engaged and living in Australia and Tasmania. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Accompanying material - Brief notes taken before and after the recording Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008505 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 1 interview(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2641.

Date: 17 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: Hart, Renee Sylvia, 1919-

Reference: OHint-0562/06

Description: Renee Hart was born in Worthing, Sussex, England on 20 June 1919. Mentions her passports, her attitude to her nationality and the postings of her father's regiment. Talks of her parents' marriage and children. Describes her father's move to India as a bandsman and how the family travelled there. Describes the band's musical commitments. Talks of her father's change from playing brass to stringed instruments and piano. Mentions the governors of various regions in India. Relates the details of the family's return to England and their subsequent return to India. Talks of her mother's occupation in hairdressing, her sister's role in the business and her own training, the techniques used at the time, their Indian customers with reference to privacy for various races. Mentions social life in the hills and teaching dancing with her sisters. Mentions her family's religion and censoring the forces' mail in wartime. Talks of her husband's family connections with India, their meeting and living in India. Describes sports clubs, social clubs and membership, relationships, modes of transport. Explains what their accommodation was like, mentions bathrooms and toilets at home and at boarding school. Mentions servants. Talks about her children, her parents and siblings settling in New Zealand. Describes her father's work and pension husband's job situation. Awards/funding - Project received an Oral Histroy Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008508, OHC-008509 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.50 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2643.

Date: 24 Apr 2001 - 10 May 2001

From: Anglo-Indian lives oral history project

By: MacLeod, Beryl Aida, 1923-

Reference: OHInt-0562/08

Description: Beryl MacLeod was born in Calcutta in 1923. Talks of her arrival in New Zealand, her husband's family home in Glasgow, and buying, as opposed to renting, their first home. Mentions that her parents were English and talks about their move to India in 1921. Describes her father's job as bandsman and musician, the instruments he played, his WWI service in France later in Egypt, his retirement and move to New Zealand in 1950. Relates her schooling in India, her secreterial and hairdressing jobs. Talks about the mother's hairdressing equipment and business. Mentions her father giving violin lessons in schools. Describes their accommodation, the servants and their routines. Describes meeting her husband, her sisters' dancing school and performances. Talks of religion, boarding school life and gives reasons for her move to Shillong with her mother. Describes the situation at the time of partition and relationships of Anglo-Indian women with European men. Describes social life of Burma Shell employees, club membership and social distinction. Recalls her children's time at boarding school in Scotland, working for Shell Oil, her return to Scotland then New Zealand. Describes her theatrical performances, Meals on Wheels and driving for the Foundation for the Blind. Recalls a visit to India, compares life there and the way it was when they lived there. Awards/funding - Project recieved an Oral History Grant Interviewer(s) - Dorothy McMenamin Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008514, OHC-008515 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-2646.

Date: 1958

From: Horsman, John Irvin, 1925-1993: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11786-08

Description: Letters from Alan Horsman to his parents whilst he was serving on the M.V. Ozarda, S.S. Okhla, and S.S. Pandana Includes Christmas dinner menu for 'Padana' 25 Dec 1958 Includes hand written map [n.d.] with route from Solomon Islands (11/4), Caroline Island (13/4), Guam (14/4) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Hand drawn map of route from Yokohama past Formosa to Yulin (Hainan Island) onwards to Singapore [n.d.]; Hand drawn map of route from Bombay to Karachi, Bahrain, Dammam, Kuwait, Bandar Sharpour, Khorramshar, Basar, Karachi, Bhavnagar then onwards from Bombay to Cochin, Singapore, Hong Kong and onwards to Kobe (Letter dated 21 Sep 1958)

Date: ca 1939-1945

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

Reference: MS-Papers-12768-1

Description: Comprises letters sent from Chauncey Raymond Williams Adams to his family and friends from circa 1939 to 1945 relating to his military service during World War Two. Includes descriptions of his time in the North Africa Campaign, the Greece Campaign, and his homecoming in 1943. Descriptive information taken from donor’s annotations on original housing. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Personal correspondence and related ephemera measuring up to 23 x 30 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.

Date: [1942-1946]

From: Penny, Theo Kenneth, 1913-1986: Military papers

Reference: MSX-9628

Description: Journal with numbered pages of experiences during World War Two service. Numbered pages which begin at page 60 describe leave, entertainment, and sightseeing in Italy. Diary also describes travelling by airplane, truck, train, barge, and on the ship 'Capetown Castle' as well as descriptions of Bombay, India and returning to New Zealand on an American troop ship and finally by train to Te Awamutu. The volume ends with reflection by Penny on his and others' war experiences and the impact of their experiences on their return to New Zealand society. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Manuscript on pre-lined notebook, 16 x 11 cm.