Hurricane (Fighter plane)

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: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-295

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and Egypt during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many of the personnel identified are listed above, but group portraits in which individuals are named, are not individually listed above. Images include a consignment of 3000 cases of apples arriving at the New Zealand Forces Club in Egypt; YMCA secretaries of the NZEF in Crete before the blitz; NZ pilots at advanced RAF training school in England; King George II of Greece inspecting troops in the Middle East, being entertained by members of the Maori Battalion, and presenting medals to the platoon acting as his bodyguard on the Greek royal family's evacuation from Crete to Egypt (p 6-11). American aid to the ANZACs, showing a function in New York celebrating the presentation of over 100 ambulances to the fighting forces in Egypt, with (on p 12-15) views in Egypt of the ambulances & mobile surgical unit; the General Hospital at Helwan, with views inside wards, and life of convalescents including a swimming carnival, picnics and yachting (p 16-20); nurses' life at the General Hospital (p 139-141). Arrival of a mobile canteen for the YMCA (p 20-21); NZ soldiers on leave in Cairo; NZ cricket team at the Gezira Sporting Club (p 23-24); Parades of NZ units reviewed by general Freyberg; A YMCA canteen service van in Crete; opening of the Lowry Hut (p 8, p 28-30, p 34-35); Rowing races between a NZ team and Cairo representative team at the Cairo River Club (p 30-31, p 67). PM Peter Fraser's tour of NZ activities in Britain; broadcasts to NZ through the BBC's New Zealand programme (p 32-33, 92-93, 124-125); the New Zealand Forces Club (p 35-39, 44); ENSA Concert Party (p 40-42); staff at NZ House in London sorting parcels from NZ for NZ personnel. Attack on Crete (p 44-53), views taken by a German photographer who was killed in Crete, including Junkers transport carriers, Axis destroyers and wrecked German planes at Maleme airport; transport ship Glengyle after the evacuation from Crete. HMS Leander (p 55-61, p 79, p 84-85), includes group of sailors & NZ officers, all identified. Maori Battalion training in the Middle East; incidents during route march; two views of the official Netherlands Indies Women's organisation in wartime who looked after NZ airmen passing through batavia (Djakarta) (P 66, 68); sports meeting at the Prince Farouk Stadium Cairo (p 68-73, 83); artillery callibrating guns (p 73-79); field ordnance worlshops; Mobile Surgical Unit; copies of paintings by war artist peter McIntyre (p 87-91); Bomber Command Operational Training Unit. Postal unit (p 94-101); wireless operator air gunners after training at the WAG course at Mountain View Air Station in Canada (all named, p 96-97); investiture conferring Greek decorations on NZ officers (p 101-102, 110-111); Kiwi Concert Party (p 103-110); manouevres in the desert; fire brigade at NZ Base Camp (p 118-122); 2nd Echelon Office keeping personal records (p 120, 122-123); camp laundry in Egypt (p 128-130); work of a Light Aid Detachment in the field; the original ANZAC Club, Singapore (p 144); training under active service conditions in desert (p 145-149); visit by NZ soldiers to a stable maintained by the Egyptian Government at Heliopolis raising Arab horses. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 782-1226. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: [1939-1945]

Reference: PA1-q-1024

Description: Shows scenes in Waiouru, Empire air Training scheme in Canada, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, and Japan. Taken and collected by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1940-1943

From: Jeffries, J Kenneth (estate) :Photographs relating to NZ Engineers in Middle East, WW2

Reference: PA1-o-913

Description: The content fields have been constructed from what can be seen of the album without removing the photographs. It should be noted that most of the photographs do have information written on their backs but that this can only be accessed by removing them from the photo corners which attach them to the pages Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1943

From: Park, Keith Rodney (Sir), 1892-1975 :Photographs of Malta and the Middle East, 1939-1945

Reference: PA1-q-906

Description: Photographs collected by Sir Keith Park (1892-1975) during 1943 when he was Air Officer Commanding in Chief of Malta. Includes photographs of ground and air crews, military airplanes and ships, a presentation ceremony of the George Cross to Malta and the surrender of the Italian Grand Fleet. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Clear plastic binder, 31.5 x 26 cm, containing 45 sleeves

Date: 2000

By: Warbirds Over Wanaka (Airshow)

Reference: Eph-D-AVIATION-2000-01

Description: Poster advertising an aviation event shows an illustration of an airman or fighter pilot at the left, and an aircraft (Hawker Hurricane) flying behind and above him, with the number P3351 on its side. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2009.

Date: ca 1939-1945

By: Subritzky, Mike, active 1989

Reference: PAColl-1497

Description: Copy negatives from captured enemy film of German aircraft, shells, paratroopers, tanks and anti-tank guns in Egypt and Crete. Includes a German cemetery at El Alamein, German paratroopers embarking on a troop carrier, German paratroopers coming down in Crete and two romantic Italian postcards. Arrangement: Photocopies of prints on shelf at PAColl-1497 Quantity: 23 b&w copy negative(s) (copies of original prints returned to owner). 23 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negatives

Date: 7 to 14 Sep 2005 - 07 Sep 2005 - 14 Sep 2005

From: New Zealand Defence Force Military oral history project

By: Weggery, Sydney Lawrence Emil, 1920-2006

Reference: OHInt-0938-10

Description: Interview with Sydney Lawrence Emil Weggery, born in Palmerston North in 1920. Refers to his Swedish grandfather, and his father having served in World War I. Talks about growing up on a farm in the Mangaone Valley (inland from Te Horo) and later at Paraparaumu and Lower Hutt. Mentions becoming a public servant in 1938 and studying accountancy part time. Refers to being teetotal and becoming a committed Christian when he was 18. Recalls hearing war had been declared on the radio in 1939, deciding he wanted to be a pilot, and his mother signing his papers when he was nearly 20. Comments on the assignments he had to complete before being called up. Reflects that young men were keen to volunteer for an overseas adventure, but it became more serious once they saw action. Talks about attending the aircrew Ground Training School at Levin in February 1941, learning to fly tiger moths at the Harewood Elementary Flying Training School, and then being sent to Canada to train under the Empire Air Training Scheme at Dauphin, Manitoba. Comments on training in single-engined Harvards, learning instrument flying, night flying and cross country navigation. Talks about arrival in Britain in late 1941, delay in operational training because of harsh winter weather, and volunteering for the Far East: sent to India rather than Singapore. Mentions flying Hurricanes at the Operational Training Unit at Risalpur near Peshawar, learning aerial gunnery, tactics, dogfighting and formation flying, but training interrupted to allow Indian pilots to train. Talks about joining 615 Fighter Squadron on the Bengal-Burma border, in January 1943, and comments on the cosmopolitan aircrew. Mentions Japanese bombing raids on their airfields and the superior manoeuverability of the Japanese Zero fighters. Describes the fighters' responses to raids, escorting raids by their bombers, fighter raids on roads and railway lines (rhubarb operations), and debriefing after flights. Discusses the squadron converting to Spitfires in October 1943 because the Hurricaines could not fly high enough to be effective against Japanese bombers and fighters. Mentions operating out of Imphal to prevent a Japanese invasion of Assam and catching malaria there. Refers to meeting his wife Enith during leave in Calcutta and getting married in Darjeeling in Oct 1944. Comments on being posted to the Air Force Headquarters in Calcutta for two months before returning to New Zealand for home leave in early 1945. Recalls VE Day celebrations in Wellington, demobilisation, and training with his wife to be Salvation Army officers. Reflects on working with former servicemen who had difficulites settling back into their families where their wives had been running the household in their absence and now expected a partnership role in the family. Interviewer(s) - Martin Halliday Accompanying material - Copy of "The War Cry" Lt-Colonel Lawrence Weggery - memoirs of a spitfire pilot" is held with his printed transcript, OHA-6158 Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-017261 - OHC-017268 Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s) - printed. 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 interview(s). 7.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHDL-000400, OHA-6158. Search dates: 1920 - 1939 - 2005 - 1945

Date: 1943

From: Park, Keith Rodney (Sir), 1892-1975 :Photographs of Malta and the Middle East, 1939-1945

Reference: PA1-q-905

Description: Album containing photographs relating to Sir Keith Park (1892-1975) during 1943, when he was Air Officer Commanding in Chief of Malta. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Clear plastic binder, 31.5 x 26 cm, containing 46 sleeves

Date: between 1936-1940

From: Kain family: Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Edgar James 'Cobber' Kain

Reference: PA1-o-985-52-2

Description: Hawker Hurricane aeroplanes ready for take off, piloted by Royal Air Force (Great Britain), 73 Squadron. Taken by an unknown photographer in England between 1936-1940. Inscriptions: Album page - left of image - 73 sqdn take off Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.2 x 10.6 cm

Date: 1939

From: Kain family: Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Edgar James 'Cobber' Kain

Reference: PA1-o-985-48-3

Description: Royal Air Force (Great Britain) Hawker Hurricane aeroplane with 73 Squadron Leader R K R Brougham in the cockpit, 1939, probably at Digby, Lincolnshire, England. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - right of image - S/L Brougham 1st Flip Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 7 x 10.5 cm, on album page

Date: 1939-1940

From: Kain family: Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Edgar James 'Cobber' Kain

Reference: PA1-o-986

Description: British Official photographs of Edgar James Kain (1918-1940) and his fellow pilots of no 73 Squadron, Royal Air Force, taken chiefly between the squadron's posting to France in September 1939 and Kain's death on 7 June 1940. The album includes telegrams, invitations, mentions in despatches, and other documentation relating to Kain. With war approaching, No 73 Squadron was mobilised on 24 August 1939. It was posted to Le Havre-Octeville, France, on 9 September, then to Rouvres a month later. (From the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography http://www.dnzb.govt ) Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donors are Edgar Kain's sisters. Transfers: Transferred from MS-Group-1031..

Date: 1941-1944

By: Judd, Stratford Frederick, 1919-2010

Reference: PA-Group-00632

Description: Photographs illustrating the career of Stratford Frederick Judd with RNZAF during World War II, including training in Canada, and Hullavington (England), and service in North Africa and the Middle East. Photographs include: portraits of servicemen and their aeropanes; military vehicles and military camps; images of burnt-out aeroplanes; scenes of leisure including a rugby game; sight-seeing photographs in Canada, the United Kingdom, and sites across North Africa and the Middle East; photographs of local people. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). 71 b&w original negative(s). 39 digital print(s). 3 b&w original negative(s) strips comprising 4 images. Physical Description: Photographic prints, photographic negatives, digital prints with ms annotations Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2008

Date: February 1944-September 1944

From: Boot, L M :Photograph album and loose photographs of air force service in New Zealand, Britain and Canada in 1944

Reference: PA1-o-050

Description: Album of photographs taken in Canada and the United States of America between February 1944 and September 1944, while Leonard Murray Boot was a member of the Royal New Zealand Air Force training at the Bomber and Gunnery course. Leonard Boot took many of the photographs, but they also include group portraits of his company at their various training bases. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Cream soft-covered album labelled "Photographs", 205 x 260 mm

Date: 1942-1943

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: PA1-q-298

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in North Africa and the Pacific during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many of the group portraits are fully named in the album, many of whom are not listed above. Scenes include various views of the Kiwi Concert Party (with a named group portrait) on tour and in action, in Syria, Alexandria, Tripoli & Malta (p 1-5, 42, 137-138); New Zealanders in the RAF at Middle-Eastern stations (p 6-7, 19-23); casualties and medical officers from the El Alamein battle at a NZ military hospital, including a view of twin brothers E R & E O Riley who painted a mural while convalescing (p 8-9, 23); a group of NZ merchant seamen visited the 2nd NZEF base at Maadi with one of the soldiers at the base (A Currie, E Warner, D Duff (all from Lyttelton) and S Rogers from Wellington), with soldier W E M Cornish (also from Lyttelton). Lieutenant-General Montgomery inspecting troops and presenting awards (p 10-180 and Monty in the desert (p 63); from the Azizia region to Tripoli (p 24-36) including stacks of German bombs abandoned near Azizia, troops on leave in Tripoli, Monty visits, parades, scenes with Winston Churchill and Bernard Montgomery; inspection of troops and awards presented by General Freyberg (p 68-72, 75-76). The Libyan battle and advance to Benghazi; Xmas scenes at Maadi Camp (p 40-41), at the Helwan Hospital (p 53-54) & at Sirte (p 55-56); scenes of flooding in the desert; light naval craft in the harbour of a Western Desert port. Nursing sisters in the Western desert (p 45-49); infantry troops taking an Italian fort "Forte Giudice[?]" (p 50-51). Visit of the NZ Minister of Defence (Hon Frederick Jones (p 52-53, 84-85, 94-97, 125-127); presentation of 2 ambulances by the Hugh Baird family (Hastings) and the Sutherland Ross family (Dunedin). Clearing mines (p57-59); Divisional Signals in the desert (p 60-61); photographs taken on a German camera captured in the Sidi Barrani area (p 64-66); various sporting events including rugby championships in Tripoli (p 67-68) & Alexandria (p 72-74), hockey, tennis (p 149), swimming (p 149), and athletics in Cairo (p 127-129). An ambulance train, diesel drawn train of ambulance carriages operated by NZ engineers (p 79); NZ Spitfire fighters operating from Britain (Fl/Lt Pattison, Squad. Leader R J C Grant (DFC, DFM) & Fl/Lt Baker (DFC)); South Island airmen making a broadcast to NZ from the studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Studios in Halifax. Final phase of fighting in North Africa (p 89-93) and the surrender by General Messe, the German Chief of Staff. Scenes of the "First New Zealand Mule Pack Company" (p 129-131) for transporting ammunition and suppliesl in Tunisia; the marriage of Brigadier Kenneth MacCormick to NZ WAAC Joan Stewart Fenwick at Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings and portraits by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 100-105, 113-114), including members of the Long Range desert Group, Benghazi, Siwa, Monty, Norman Johnston (NZ Broadcasting Unit) and entry into Tripoli. NZers at Stalag 18A Germany (photo taken by A "Carl" Carlisle); passing through Gabes & Sousse; arrival of men in NZ on home leave from Egypt (p 111-113), and office scenes showing the ballot for home leave (p 139-140); British and NZ forces repatriated from Italy on a hospital ship to Alexandria (p 115-116) and a British Embassy garden party for the troops held in the British Embassy grounds in Cairo (p 121-122, 131). Captured German weapons; the end of the North African Campaign; NZers in Britain; NZ prisoners in an Italian prison camp (photo taken by one who was repatriated (L P Halle from Wanganui); celebration of Empire Day in Cairo; command performance by unites of the Allied Forces for the King of Egypt; a group at Medinine; arrival back at Base Camp of the NZ Division after 2000 mile journey from near Tunis back to Maadi after continuous campaigning for nearly a year. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 2115-2555. Follows sequence established in PA1-q-294 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm.

Date: 1930s-1940

From: Kain family: Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Edgar James 'Cobber' Kain

By: S P Andrew Ltd

Reference: PA1-q-759

Description: Album comprises British Official photographs of Edgar James Kain (1918-1940) and his fellow pilots of No 73 Squadron, Royal Air Force, taken between the Squadron's posting to France in September 1939 and Kain's death on 7 June 1940; Dornier Do 17 aircraft shot down by Kain in France, and a captured crew member under interrogation by French police; pre-war scenes of No 73 Squadron in England; Kain meeting with Arthur Askey and other actors at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham; photographs of Kain with his fiancee, Joyce Phillips; Kain's mother, Nellie Maria Kain, his sister, Judy Kain, and his fiancee at memorial services in England after his death. The album includes telegrams, invitations, mentions in despatches ,and other documentation relating to Kain. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Donors are Edgar Kain's sisters. Transfers: Transferred from MS-Group-1031..

Date: 1929-1939

From: Kain family: Papers and photographs relating to the life and career of Edgar James 'Cobber' Kain

Reference: PA1-o-985

Description: Album documenting the life and career of Edgar James Kain (1918-1940) from childhood in Wellington until the outbreak of war in 1939. The album includes home life in Wellington, a family climbing holiday in the Southern Alps in 1929, scenes in Christ's College, Christchurch; voyage to England on SS Orford in 1936, including views in Colombo, Aden and Suez); flight training at the Brough Aviation Club; social life, sporting activities and friends in England, France and Italy in the period 1936-1939; and Royal Air Force activities in the period 1937-1939. This album is particularly strong on views of aircraft, personnel, bases and activities of the Royal Air Force in the immediate pre-war years. Kain was posted to No 73 Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force, at Digby, Lincolnshire, in November 1937, flying Gloster Gladiator biplanes. In July 1938 the Squadron became one of the first to receive the new Hawker Hurricane fighters. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s). Provenance: Donors are Edgar Kain's sisters.

Date: 2001 - 2002

By: Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-2002-02

Description: Each month opening shows a photograph of aircraft in flight: RV-6, Cessna 175, Beech D17S; Tiger Moths; Eurocopter EC 120; Hawker Hurricane; Cessna Agtruck; Europa; Avro 631 Cadet; Robinson R22 Beta; Cessna 206 floatplane; Tecnam P-92S; Cessna 185; Douglas DC-3. Quantity: 1 calendar. Physical Description: Photolithographs on calendar pages, each 300 x 306 mm. on backing card 373 x 306 mm. Provenance: Acquired on legal deposit in 2002.

Date: [ca May 1943]

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: Elias, M D, active 1943

Reference: DA-03045-F

Description: Flying Officer P N McGregor (Waihi) in the cockpit of his Hurrican aircraft in Tunisia during World War II. McGregor was one of the NZ pilots supporting the NZ Division fighting in the Tabaga Gap. Photograph taken circa May 1943 by M D Elias. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative

Date: 1 Apr 1948

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-12679-G

Description: Copy negative taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 26 Jul 1942

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: Whitlock, W A, active 1942

Reference: DA-02588-F

Description: An RAF Hurricane shot down in our lines. Hurricanes were no match for the 109s. Photograph taken on El Alamein front, Egypt, on 26 July 1942 by W A Whitlock. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative