Redoubt near Oakura built in 1864 on the site of the upper pā of the Kaitake Pā complex, after the pā was attacked and taken by British troops and local Pākeha on 25 March 1864. Occupied by British troops and Military Settlers until 1866, and last garrisoned after the 1869 raid on Pukearuhe.
Kaitake Redoubt (Taranaki, N.Z.)
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Kaitake Redoubt, Taranaki, New Zealand
Date: [1864-1865]
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-q-177-07-2
Description: Kaitake Redoubt, Taranaki. Photograph taken circa 1864-1865 by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Inscription on album page. Inscriptions: Verso - beneath image - Kaitake Redoubt Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 15 x 10.5 cm, on album page
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Kaitake Redoubt
Date: 1864
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
Reference: PA1-q-177-07
Description: Kaitake Redoubt in 1864. Photographer unidentified. This image was reproduced in `The Colonial New Zealand Wars' by Tim Ryan and Bill Parham, 1986, page 198, with the caption: "The Kaitake Redoubt, Taranaki, built in 1864. Outside the walls stands a signal mast, used to relay messages between military posts." Inscriptions: Album page - above image - Taranaki; Album page - beneath image - Kaitake Redoubt Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 10.7 x 15.4 cm, mounted on to album page
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Spencer Perceval Talbot Nicholl album 2
Date: 1863-1865
From: Nicholl, Spencer Perceval Talbot, 1841-1908 :Photograph albums
By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903
Reference: PA1-q-177
Description: Album compiled circa 1863-5, by Spencer P T Nicholl of the 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Some photographs taken by John Kinder. Photographs include images relating to military life, including the Oakura Redoubt, the Kaitake Redoubt, officers of the 68th regiment, military camps in Taranaki, and the Militia Hospital in New Plymouth. Pages 15-18 have the pencilled caption `Lake Taupo', but in fact are photographs of the volcanic area around Lake Rotomahana, and were taken by John Kinder in 1865. They include a sulphur volcano (whakataratara), the Whatapoho geyser, Otukapuarangi (Pink Terraces), and the Tarata or principal boiling springs. Pages 19-32 contain portraits of Maori men and women, some of which have pencilled captions. Inscriptions: Album page - `Spencer p.T. Nicholl (subsequently Lieut. Col.), 43rd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Album compiled probably about 1863/4' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, darker green leather corners and spine, original spine with gold decoration, repaired; 37 x 27 cm