Ambulance service

Date: 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: Moore & Thompson (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-186

Description: Series of photos taken during three months training at Cambridge, New Zealand during Jun-Aug 1941. Some include captions. Three group photos taken at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, Aug 1941 by Moore & Thompson, Rotorua photographic firm Quantity: 31 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1929-1988

By: Wellington Free Ambulance. Ladies Auxiliary

Reference: 88-153

Description: The records comprise minute books of the Auxiliary 1929-1988, correspondence 1955-1970 and a small amount of financial records. Also includes scrapbooks covering the period 1961-1988 containing photographs and newspaper clippings relating to the Wellington Free Ambulance Service and the work of the Auxiliary. The Wellington Free Ambulance Ladies Auxiliary was formed in February 1929 to raise funds for the Wellington Free Ambulance service. During its 60 years in operation the Auxiliary worked to raise funds for ambulances and equipment. The Auxiliary disbanded in 1988 due, partly, to falling membership. Quantity: 2 box(es). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Processing information: Not yet listed

From: Various artists :[Military medals and buttons, and three Masonic medals of C. P. Powles]. 1874-1945.

By: Powles, Michael John, 1939-

Reference: Curios-029-022-007

Description: Metal crest on backing with clip and armband. Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Metal crest on backing with clip and armband. Provenance: Donated by Michael Powles in 1996.

Date: 1981

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-787

Description: Shows three scenes in which rugby players find ways to stop playing in order to watch the rugby test. The first wants to be ordered off from his game after infringing the rules. The second has been injured and wants ambulance officers to take him to a TV instead of to hospital. The third has arrived home to watch TV after playing a shortened 20 minute game. Refers to rugby test N.Z. versus Scotland played in Dunedin on 12 June 1981. Extended Title - A lot of those players will do their best to get to watch it - Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 455 x 320 mm.

Date: 1941-1947

From: Johnson, Ralph, 1950-: Photographs, mainly relating to theatre company Town and Country Players

Reference: PAColl-10352-1

Description: Photographs chiefly relating to the work of the China Convoy of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) in China between 1945-1947. Taken by unidentified photographers between circa 1941 to 1944, and between 1945 to 1947. Many images have inscriptions on the reverse. - Two images, probably taken in New Zealand, show Al and Margaret cutting a wedding cake and Roy Lucas posing in uniform (the latter image inscribed 'preparing for China' and dated 26 April 1945). - Images of individual FAU and Friends Service Unit (FSU) members taken in China include: Peter F Early (Chairman, Friends Service Unit), Douglas J Clifford (New Zealand), and Spencer L Coxe (Australia). Also includes a group portrait taken on Christmas Day 1945 featuring McClure, Bradshaw, Stokes, Dodds, B[?], Wiehs[?], Gibson, Chen, Kwan, Fransham, Hsiung, Wu, Chu, Briggs, Gunn, Ho, and Fox. - Includes images of Arthur Wallbank with a Chinese student, and Alf Sidwell with a student in a an engineering workshop, both inscribed as possibly taken at the Medical Mechanics School, Chengchou (Zhengzhou) or at the Institute of Hospital Technology in Hankou circa 1947. - Includes images of local people, sheep, cats, and rural landscapes in Honan (Henan) and Kweichow. Includes images of the Yellow River bridge, FAU trucks on a narrow cliff road near Guangyuan, Northern Sichuan, and the O P D and gatehouse at Hwi Mei[?]. One image shows a bombed railway station at Sin Siang. Relationship complexity - see further material relating to the Friends Ambulance Unit at Library references OHColl-0050 and PAColl-6162 New Zealander Wreford Neil Johnson, father of Ralph Johnson, worked with the Friends Ambulance Unit in China circa late 1940s. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

By: Cameron, Caitriona, active 1997

Reference: OHColl-0050

Description: Interviews New Zealanders who went to China to give medical help in the period of revolution in China in the late 1940s. Quantity: 7 interview(s). Number of interviews/events: 7

Date: 1945-1947

From: Hutt County Council : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-1293-119/15

Description: Correspondence and papers include Royal Humane Society of New Zealand re bronze medal awarded to T A Dobson and son H Dobson for the rescue of 3 youths at Plimmerton, 20 Oct 1946; Hutt Valley Pony Club, 1947; Wellington Beautifying Society; Boy Scouts Assn (Hutt Valley and Bays County) re Jamboree in France; Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture; Barton's Bush, Upper Hutt; minutes of special meeting held Feb 1947 re transit housing at Trentham Camp; Wellington Citizens Anniversary Regatta Committee Inc, 1947; war memorials; Auckland and Suburban Drainage League Inc, 1946; Wellington Suburbs Defence Rifle Club, 1946 re Collins and Somerville Ranges at Trentham; rat poison for the Norway rat; letter re the naming of Hutt County, 1946; Corso; Hutt Valley St John Ambulance Building Campaign Committee, 1945; and other miscellaneous matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1931-1958

By: Campbell, Mary Greig, 1907-1989

Reference: PAColl-6162

Description: Photographs of people who were members of the Friends Ambulance Unit; the Friends Service Council hostel in Shanghai; Photographs of Chinese, and Chinese actors in traditional drama. There are snaps of the sights of Shanghai. Most of these groups of photographs date from 1947 to 1950. The next group which date from 1931 to ca 1950 are photographs of meetings of the Society of Friends. There is also a photograph of an early ban the bomb demonstration, and one group photograph of the staff of Massey Agricultural College. Finally there are a few personal photographs of family and friends Quantity: 205 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Finding Aids: Broad lists of material provided by donor.

Date: 1914-1918

From: Powles family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-814

Description: Coverage mainly Sir Guy's activities with Island Territories Dept (Samoa) and Foreign Affairs; Ombudsman. Also material relating to Sir Guy's father who saw service in Boer War and WWI and some material relating to his grandfather. Of particular importance are Colonel Powles well documented albums recording his involvement in the Gallipoli and Egyptian and Palestine campaigns, World War One. Many of these photographs were used to illustrate his official war history. Most of the negatives relate to Egypt and Palestine. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1917-1975

By: Bell, Beatrice Enid, 1888-1977

Reference: MS-Group-1840

Description: Diary kept by Enid Bell while serving as an ambulance driver in France in 1917; only kept diary for six weeks. Bell thought to be one of the first Wrens. Includes papers relating to life during World War II and to the Wellington Golf Club Accompanying material - Biographical notes supplied by lender; also obituary (1977) Source of title - Supplied Daughter of prominent New Zealand politician, F D H Bell. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 1 Electronic document(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy, and digital copy) Processing information: Digital copy made as a copy and return, in 2010, as part of the Adam Matthew World War I digitisation project.

Date: 5 Apr-6 May 1917

From: Bell, Beatrice Enid, 1888-1977 :Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7831

Description: Diary kept by Enid Bell while serving as an ambulance driver in France in 1917; only kept diary for six weeks. Bell thought to be one of the first Wrens. Accompanying material - Biographical notes supplied by lender; also obituary (1977) Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: November 1927

By: Wellington Free Ambulance

Reference: fMS-Papers-5015

Description: Page of the Wellington Free Ambulance case register recording details of the first 34 cases dealt with by the service in November 1927. Also contains a copy of a newspaper clipping dated 9 November 1927 describing the opening ceremony for the Wellington Free Ambulance. Source of title - supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (some photocopies) Provenance: Donor worked for the Wellington Free Ambulance service during the 1950's. He and other staff rescued this part of the register during this time. Rest of this register was lost. Donor/Lender/Vendor - J McKeen, Wellington, 1994

Date: 1976

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-431

Description: This cartoon features the December 1976 floods in Wellington and the Hutt and has a scene of the officials doing their jobs of rescuing and clearing during the downpour 1976 cartoon filed with those of 1978 (about 21 Dec 1976) Extended Title - We would like to recognise the public debt of gratitude to firemen, traffic officers, council workmen, police, free ambulance - thank you Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 302 x 378 mm

Date: [ca 1874]-1967, n d

By: Quartermain family; Rego, Marion, active 1975-1997

Reference: MS-Group-0176

Description: Papers of Leslie Quartermain include correspondence with Ian McGregor while on service as an RAF trainee pilot in Canada, 1941; correspondence to his family and speeches relating to his own experiences with the 13 Field Ambulance during WWI; correspondence with Clarence Hare on the 1902-1904 British Antarctic Expedition; papers relating to his teaching of English at Wellington College and Christchurch Boys' High School; street plans of Wellington; a scrapbook compiled by his father, George Quartermain, containing poetry and other newspaper clippings on a wide range of subjects, dated ca 1881-1935. Source of title - supplied title Accompanying material - Photograph of C H Hare. Negative transferred to Photograph Archives The Quartermain family came from Hororata, North Canterbury. Leslie Quartermain served with 13 Field Ambulance in World War I and was a noted writer on Antarctic exploration, as well as being a school teacher, and a worker for Presbyterian Bible Class Union. Quantity: 44 folder(s). 1 volume(s). 0.40 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript and printed matter Finding Aids: Inventory available for folders with the prefix MS-Papers-1807-.. Provenance: Donor is daughter and granddaughter of Leslie and George Quartermain

Date: [ca 1995]

By: Ball, Desmond Kevin, 1921?-

Reference: MS-Papers-6489

Description: Title continues:`...recollections of an ambulance driver.' Ball describes his experiences as an ambulance driver during the Italian campaign of World War II; he writes of arriving in the Middle East and Italy and describes the various operations and duties he took part in. The memoirs hae been edited by his daughter, Shirley Fairest, who has included photographs from the War History Collection of the Turnbull Library and a map showing the battle plan for the Po Valley. Source of title - Transcribed Ball served in the 4th Field Ambulance Unit in Italy during World War II Quantity: 1 folder(s) (34 pages). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with laser photographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs S Fairest, Henderson, Auckland, Feb 1999 Includes photographs from the Turnbull collection and a map of the Po Valley campaign

Date: 22 Jul-24 Oct 1985 - 22 Jul 1985 - 24 Oct 1985

From: Nelson and Golden Bay Oral History Project

By: Masters, Charles Reuben George, 1906-1989; Masters, Kathleen Mary, 1914-1986

Reference: OHInt-0053/16

Description: George Masters was born in Constable in Great Britain in 1906. Recalls his family's emigration to New Zealand in 1911 and settling in Nelson in 1915. Describes F.G. (Soss) Gibbs, headmaster of Nelson College for Boys. Comments on the youth activities of various churches and his family's social position in Nelson. After being a pupil teacher at Nelson Central School for Boys, he attended Teachers College in Christchurch and studied physical education at Dunedin Training College. Describes his student days. Recalls teaching at the Railways Public Works Camp at Gowan Bridge and the Resolution Bay Household School, Murchison and Collingwood. Describes his involvement in civil defence during World War II including taking Air Force cadets as he had an aviation licence. Talks about alternative lifestyle people and hippies in the Collingwood area other changes in the makeup of the population of Collingwood. Comments on sex education. Describes services to the community including work as an ambulance driver, member of the Education Board and Treasurer of the school committee. Kathleen Masters was born in Christchurch in 1915. Recalls her family background and childhood in Christchurch and the social pressures that she felt as a young woman there. Talks about being `finished off' at Rangiruru College. Describes the death of her first husband in Crete in 1940 and staying with her sister, Margaret Nicholson, who was married to the Collingwood vicar, Bob Nicholson. Talks about meeting and later marrying George Masters, employment with McNabb Motors and the Collingwood Dairy Factory, Collingwood and Rockville shops, married life, childbirth and child rearing, sewing and thrift, family finances, local entertainment and care of the elderly. Venue - Collingwood : 1985 Interviewer(s) - Rosie Little Venue - The Masters' home in Collingwood Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-003003; OHC-003004; OHC-003005; OHC-003006; OHC-003005; OHC-003008; OHC-003009; OHC-003010; OHC-003011; OHC-003012; OHC-003013; OHC-003014 Quantity: 12 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 580.

Date: 14 May 1993

From: Women's suffrage centennial year project

By: Duncan, Josephine Ruth, 1913-2008; Horwood, Michelle, active 1993

Reference: OHInt-0402-10

Description: Josephine (Jo) Duncan talks about her family, grandfather Andrew Duncan, one of Wanganui's original settlers who came out from Ayreshire in Scotland in 1840, and the family homestead and gardens at Totarapuka, Wanganui East. Refers to grandfather's friends, Helmore and Godby, who were involved in land distribution. Discusses grandfather's son, also Andrew Duncan, who, with his brother John Duncan, started the Treadwell Gordon firm of lawyers, bought land in Hunterville and set up Otairi Station. Describes social life and customs, compares Wanganui then and now. Discusses her education and mother's attitude to girls' education. Talks about becoming a well known as a New Zealand golfer. Describes how World War II influenced her life, training as an ambulance driver, her experiences driving ambulances around the Wanganui area from Waiouru to Bulls, joining the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), training at Ravenfort, Auckland, in 1942 and being posted overseas. Describes being transported from Wellington to Suez Canal on the hospital ship `Oranje'. Refers to Winston Churchill, well known to her mother, and also refers to Neville Glen. Gives details of returning to New Zealand in 1946 and the state of the farm at Mangaweka. Recalls family being the first in the area to topdress with a plane, a Tiger Moth, being the first woman in the district to attend stock sales, and farming until the farm was sold in 1971. Refers to dairy factory at Rangiwahia winning four world championships for its butter. Talks about helping set up the Citizens Advice Bureau, being involved with Families in Distress. Describes starting the Wanganui Women's Emergency Refuge in 1976-1977 and mentions the Salvation Army, Saint Vincent de Paul and Mrs Ekink. Talks about continuing playing golf and her involvement in starting the Russell Grace Interprovincial Tournament. Refers to her collection of Chinese ornaments and mentions having a patu given to grandfather Duncan ca 1843-47 by Wirimu Hipango. Mentions Mrs Gower, a member of the Hope-Gibbon family who married a member of the Carter Holt family; Bob Earl and Michael Mars. Recalls the 1931 earthquake. Awards/funding - Funded by a grant from the Women's Suffrage Centennial Year Trust Other - Additional information on file at WRM Archives includes newspaper articles and museum papers see Mackay Papers WRM Archives. Abstracted by - Karen Kitson Interviewer(s) - Michelle Horwood Venue - 2 Guyton Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006718 Tape numbers - OHC-006719 Tape numbers - OHC-006720 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 2.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1568. Search dates: 1993

Date: 1982 - 01 Jan 1982

From: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation oral history project

By: Davidson, Elsie Ellen, 1911-2001; Bryant, Maida, active 1982

Reference: OHInt-0014/044

Description: Elsie Davidson born Hokitika. Trained for nursing at Westland Hospital, commencing 1931. Talks about: family move to North Island; domestic work undertaken while waiting to go nursing; nursing training; community spirit; work environment; contagious diseases - scarlet fever, diphtheria; isolation ward; peritonitis and drugs used in the 1930s. Recalls treatment of pneumonia; children with bronchitis; lack of ambulances - Newmans buses used. Hospital got first ambulance 1935. Mentions local aeordrome and recalls plane accident ca 1935 when Mrs Newman was killed - pilot badly burned and treated in hospital. Mentions Napier earthquake - felt in Hamilton. Talks about involvement with Nurses Association. Describes greatest changes in nursing since her day and changes in education. Talks about own two children who died - one had cerebral spinal meningitis which she describes and the other died following an anaesthetic for removal of tonsils. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Hokitika Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Maida Bryant Venue - Hokitika Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000005; OHLC-000010 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2166 (hand-written).

Date: 13 June 1993 - 13 Jun 1993

From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project

By: Lawrence, Sybil Ellen, 1909-1994

Reference: OHInt-0067/064

Description: Sybil Ellen Lawrence (nee Say) born Waihi where she has lived most of her life. Refers to midwife, Nurse Aiken and Dr Robertson (later Sir Karic Robertson). Recalls first introduction to Central School. Describes journey through gutters. Talks about Depression which didn't affect family as father was a master butcher but many families lived on his generosity. On leaving school worked in father's shop, then a variety of jobs before joining the Army. Describes duties in the army, with reference to VD patients. Mentions St John Ambulance experience before joining army. Recalls joining staff at Auckland hospital, Cornwall Park. After marriage returned to Waihi to farm. Recalls early memories of mining days, with reference to the Pump room. Talks about private school run by Mr Ransey in the early days. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Other - limited biographical information available Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005865A; OHV-0262D Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1272.

Date: 26 Aug 1992

From: After the war; World War II veterans oral history project.

By: Ryburn, Ian Graham, 1916-

Reference: OHInt-0114/10

Description: Ian Ryburn was born on the Indian-Pakistan border on 18 September 1916, the son of missionary parents. Gives details of his family background. Describes studying for the ministry and becoming an ambulance driver during World War II. Talks in detail about this experience and about being a prisoner of war. Describes the effect of the war on him, his ministry and family. Talks about helping bikies and gang members as a minister. Describes his resignation from the ministry. Venue - Christchurch : 1992 Interviewer(s) - Alison Parr Venue - Christchurch Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005353; OHC-005354; OHC-005355; OHC-005356 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 4 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1018.