New Zealand. Army. Home Guard

Date: 26 Nov 1940-17 Oct 1943

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2851

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: ca 1915-1918, ca 1942

From: Flux, Arthur, 1896?-1983 :Photographs relating to Flux's service in World War One

Reference: PAColl-7841-1

Description: Individual and group portraits of New Zealand soldiers, including officers of the 15th Reinforcements in 1916, officers of the 1st Battalion of the Otago Regiment in May 1917, the 8th (Southland) Company in April 1917, and the Home Guard at Waipapakauri Aerodrome ca 1942. Also includes photographs of Featherston Camp and Maymorn Camp. Quantity: 15 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1940

From: Harper, James Edward, fl 2004 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-9631

Description: Group portrait of Platoon D, Kelburn Home Guard Company, taken 1940 by an unknown photographer. Edward James Haughey (1908-2004?) is at front row, extreme right. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Gelatin silver print 16.4 x 21 cm

Date: 1843 - 1939 - 1847 - 1945

Reference: MapColl-832.47p/[197-?]/Acc.23130

Description: Map showing old military installations from the New Zealand Wars, 1843-7 and the home guard sites of New Zealand Army in World War II. Sites from the New Zealand War include Te Rangihaeata's stronghold (1846), the site of a chapel and the colonial cemetery at Pauatahanui, military trenches (one named McKillops), the barracks of the 65th regiment, the officer's quarters, the Boulton's Hotel of 1847, Troopers Hill, isolated Maori grave along Paekakariki Hill Road, the landing stage of the 58th and 65th regiments, Tandy's constablulary's post and the Waitaha Maori at Ration Point. Sites during World War II include the home guard headquarters of 1941 at Jones Deviation, the 1939 New Zealand Army Unit and United States Marines 2nd division near Kakaho Stream, as well as the Duck Creek saw mill at Bradey's Bay. Shows J Walker's homestead. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 34.2 x 36.6 cm.

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-015-02

Description: Life and training at Trentham Military Camp, training at Burnham Military Camp, Home Guard, Ruapehu draft parading through Wellington Arrangement: This collection is made up of file prints attached to cardboard mounts. They were scattered throughout the wax boxes in which the War History collection had been housed for the last eight years. In giving the collection a general order they have been sorted into their series groups. This collection contains material belonging to the "NZ" series. They have not been arranged in numerical sequence as yet (though some might be so arranged). (Feb 1995). Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 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: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972

Reference: DA-01787

Description: Bivouac on Sugarloaf Hill, Gollans Valley, Wainuiomata, built by the signal unit of the Somes Platoon of Bush Guides of the Wellington Home Guard. Photographed by John Dobree Pascoe in December 1942. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

By: Candy, Oliver, active 1941-1996

Reference: PAColl-9560

Description: Photographs relating to Olly Candy's service during World War II and as part of J Force. Shows images of Fielding, Fort Dorset (Wellington), El Alamein, Florence, Faenza, New Zealand barracks at Yamaguchi and the devastation at Hiroshima. Includes images of the well known "killing of the pig incident" at Florence. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2009 Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Souvenir Calendar of the voyage of 2 NZEF Jayforce from R.M.S. "Strathmore", 1946 (Eph-A-WAR-WII-Japan-1946-02); Name card of the final 6th Manawatu Mounted Rifles reunion, 1995 (Eph-A-WAR-WII-Reunions-1995).

Date: 20 Oct 2009

From: MOTAT Telecommunications oral history project

By: Jury, Trevor Evered, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-1004-04

Description: Interview with Trevor Jury, born in Featherston in 1926. Outlines his family background and refers to starting work as a message boy at the Featherston Post Office when he was 14. Talks about his duties, and comments that the message boys did not deliver the casualty telegrams during the War. Mentions being sent to telegraph school in Wellington in 1942. Refers to learning to send and receive Morse code and having to achieve 22 words per minute. Recalls the June 1942 Wairarapa earthquake while he was in Wellington, the Herd Street post office building being flooded, and doing fire watch after the earthquake. Mentions joining the Home Guard and trying to set up a Morse light signal system in the Featherston area. Recalls seeing Japanese prisoners of war being marched to the prison camp, hearing about the riot at the camp, and the court of enquiry held at the Featherston court house. Discusses his work as a telegraphist and other duties at the Featherston Post Office when he returned from Wellington in 1942, working from temporary premises until a new post office was built. Recalls setting up Morse telephone lines each morning, and refers to Creed machines [teleprinters?] which were mainly operated by women. Comments on the difficulty of sending weather reports by telegram because numbers had up to six characters whereas letters had four. Recalls working night shifts in the telephone exchange. Mentions postmaster Jack Hislop and librarian Mrs Halpin who encouraged him to continue his education, and studying for University Entrance. Recalls the housing shortage after the War. Refers to low wages in the post office and difficulty of getting promotions. Recalls the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and being the Post Office staff member at Cross Creek station when the Queen and Prince Philip travelled to the Wairarapa on the Rimutaka incline railway. Discusses leaving the post office in 1955 and working for NIMU Insurance in Wellington as an insurance assessor. Mentions being active in the New Zealand Institute of Management and the Insurance Institute. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) (abstract). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHDL-001714, OHA-7521. Search dates: 1926 - 1940 - 2009 - 1955 Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.

Date: 6 Mar 1995 - 06 Mar 1995

From: History of the Army in New Zealand during World War II

By: Douglas, Edward Arthur Norman, 1924-

Reference: OHInt-0571/09

Description: Edward Arthur Norman Douglas born Pukekohe 1924. Recalls being a market gardener and serving on the Home Guard until 1942 when he was called up at the age of 18 years and sent for training at Ngaruawahia camp for one month. Posted to 2nd Battalion Waikato Regiment at Claudelands where training continued and describes duties which included loading out ammunition for the CAC factory Hamilton into rail or trucks. Recalls Battalion being sent to Great Barrier Island, Nov 1942 and describes headquarters at Claris airfield, conditions, beach guard duty, use of pack horses to supply outposts and coast watching. Recalls volunteering for Air Force, being posted May 1943, and after aircrew training, missed a medical and was allocated to guard duties with RNZAF. Mentions being manpowered out of services for a period and later serving with J Force. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Dick Linnell Venue - 46 Paerata Road, Pukekohe Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-008034 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2196.

Date: 23 Jun 2005

From: New Zealand Defence Force Military oral history project

By: Hewitt, Albert Trevor, 1926-

Reference: OHInt-0938-19

Description: Interview with Albert Trevor Hewitt, born in Raetihi in 1926. Talks about contracting polio when he was 10 which left him with permanent paralysis in his left leg and having to wear calipers. Comments that when he could no longer play sport he took up rifle shooting in his mid teens, and this led to taking charge of the cadet armoury at high school. Mentions his father, a World War One veteran, joined the National Reserve as a sniper in World War II. Describes being recruited in early 1943 to be part of a small Home Guard squad who were issued with rifles, ammunition and a uniform to guard the Ashhurst race course if Japanese planes appeared. Mentions the family followed news of war and threats overseas during the 1930s and were more concerned with events in Europe than with the Japanese invasion of China. Reflects on people's feelings about what was happening overseas as the war progressed and news of German raiders attacking cargo ships around New Zealand. Refers to the Japanese prisoner of war camp near Featherston and fears that if the prisoners got guns they could take over the country. Remembers American servicemen in Ashhurst chatting up the girls, and recalls hearing about the "Battle of Manners Street". Recalls the Polish refugee children being taken by train through Palmerston North en route to Pahiatia. Mentions he was working in Wellington in the Census and Statistics Department in 1945 when news of VE Day arrived, public servants showering paper out of windows, and his supervisor sending him home early while trams were still running. Comments that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was greeted enthusiastically, but his family wondered whether the second atomic bomb was really necessary and it took years to realise the full impact of the bombs. Recalls how news of the Nazi extermination camps filtered through, but he feels that there little in the news media about Japanese atrocities. Interviewer(s) - Martin Halliday Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-017858 - OHC-017859 Quantity: 1 Electronic document(s) - transcript. 1 transcript(s) - printed. 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.40 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHDL-000416, OHA-6363. Search dates: 1926 - 1939 - 2005 - 1945

Date: 6 Nov 1993 - 06 Nov 1993

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Robinson, Winifred Jean, 1909-

Reference: OHInt-0430/08

Description: Jean Robinson was born in 1909. Describes how her parents were immigrants who married on their arrival in Auckland. Describes Helensville in the 1920s. Mentions Verona House and other boarding houses. Recalls primary school days including riding a horse to school, subjects taught and having one teacher. Describes high school picnics to Shelly Beach. Mentions how her brother died of infantile paralysis. Recalls that Dr Meinhold was the only doctor in the community during the 1918 flu epidemic. Describes leaving school and working on the farm and doing housework. Comments that this was what most girls did until marriage. Recalls getting their first car and having to push it on muddy unmetalled roads. Talks about family holidays at Waiuku. Describes how her husband drove his father's truck. Recalls their marriage about 1935, living in Helensville and then sharemilking for her father before buying her uncle's farm at Mairetahi. Describes how the children went to school at Waioneke. Mentions the original Waioneke school was in Lupton's woolshed. Discusses the post World War II rehabilitation settlement. Comments on the effects of World War II including rationing, transport difficulties and labour shortage. Recalls the Home Guard. Describes fundraising for the war including baby contests and knitting. Recalls the end of war party. Mentions her children attended Kaipara College. Describes her husband's death in 1962 and her involvement in Red Cross, Women's Division Federated Farmers (WDFF) and the church. Describes the voyage to New Zealand of her grandparents Isaac and Janet McLeod on the `Seagull'. Mentions difficulties on the trip and assistance given by local Maori on their arrival. Mentions John and Helen McLeod, after whom Helensville is named. Describes her father's community involvement on the Kaipara Dairy Board, the Rehabilitation Board, the Agricultural Show, the Racing Club and the Masonic Lodge. Talks about social activities including films and hearing Al Jolson. Interviewer(s) - Harriet Taylor Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3332.

Date: 20 Jan 2006

From: Second World War oral history project: Home Front

By: Clark, Frederick George, 1922-

Reference: OHInt-0827-02

Description: Interview with George Clark (Frederick George), born Frankton, Hamilton, 8 March 1922. Talks about his family background and growing up on the family farm. Mentions being sent away to attend Mt Albert Grammar School. Recalls when electricity and radio reached the farm in the 1930s and the family talking about politics. Discusses why his father did not fight in World War I and why he would not have volunteered for World War II. Talks about joining the Home Guard with his father and brother, training and exercises, and uncles taking pig dogs on exercises. Describes officers, weapons, uniforms, signalling practice, and drill. Discusses the role of the Home Guard and plans to evacuate children if the Japanese invaded. Comments on his attitude towards the Japanese and reaction after hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Recalls how the Home Guard wound down as the war progressed, and a party in the local hall when the war ended. Mentions his brother was sick with hepatitis when he returned from the Pacific. Discusses rationing and why it did not affect farm work as they could apply for extra petrol coupons. Comments that labour was short on the farm during the war. Talks about inheriting his grandfather's farm with his brother in 1942, and his brother buying a rehab farm later. Mentions that his mother introduced him to his wife Margaret MacMurray in 1946 and marrying in 1949. Refers to not attending Anzac Day ceremonies, and not joining the RSA even though Home Guard men have recently been invited to join. Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - questionnaire filled in by George Clark; handwritten notes: Home Guard Days - what I can remember (5 p.) Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-015227, OHC-015228 Quantity: 1 printed abstract(s). 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 interview(s). 1.20 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5519; partial transcript also available. Accompanied by photocopies of photographs of George and Margaret Clark dated 1948 and 1949 Search dates: 1922 - 1939 - 2006 - 1945

Date: [1939-1940]

By: New Zealand Railways

Reference: PA1-f-062

Description: Album of publicity photographs produced for New Zealand Railways by unidentified photographers. Many of the images are related to a series of articles produced in the new Zealand Railways Magazine between January 1939 and June 1940, written by O N Gillespie, with the overall title "Buy New Zealand goods and build new Zealand. New Zealand Industries series". In this album topics covered are glass manufacture and toys, novelties and woodworking. Many photographs show the beginning of work related to World War II, with a large number of views of New Zealand military parades in Wellington; views at Wellington wharves of the troopship the Empress of Canada; and scenes at the Wellington Railway station. Other views show various training activities of the Home Guard, including fire-fighting and medical training. Two pages of nine images show different views of the Oerlikon automatic gun (p 46-47), and there is one of a range finder (p 51). On Page 5, there is a three-part panorama of the Hutt Valley from Wainuiomata Road. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with canvas cover, red spine, entitled `Miscellaneous 8'; 41 x 61 cm

Date: 1939-1949

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: PAColl-4161-01-221

Description: Assortment of official and unofficial photographs, most without captions Includes: NZ YMCA with J-Force (lounge); series of photographs pasted onto card - Signing of the surrender at Toyko Bay; Peter Fraser leaving a Naval Transport Service plane near Pearl Harbour in company with Admiral Chester W Nimitz (USN, Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas) and Vice Admiral Robert L Ghormley (USN Commandant Fourteenth Naval District and Hawaiian Sea Frontier); unidentified underground miners; training in the Kaimai Ranges; Home Guard training; Brigadier General Patrick Hurley (American Minister to NZ) with Hon Peter Fraser, Lord Halifax, Hon Walter Nash, and Cordell Hull, 1942; Winston Churchill and others; village of Ag Demetrios, Greece, 1941; the Admiral Graf Spee sinking after she had been scuttled in the River Plate, Dec 1939; coffins of German sailors killed in the River Plate Battle photographed at Montivideo, Dec 1939; unidentified chaplain. Woman pilot; General Montgomery; Helen Keller and her companion Polly Thompson arriving at Imperial Hotel, Tokyo; Milford Track; Second Mounted Rifles moving past the saluting base at Foxton when they were reviewed by the Inspector-General of Forces, Major-General Sir Andrew Russell; Auckland Gas Company's gasometers in Freeman's Bay; Bill Boyce; unidentified NZ buildings (possibly office of Scientific and Industrial Research); view of Wellington from hills above Tinakori Road looking south. Other unofficial photos from the collections of W E King of Tauranga; E B Hamilton; Sandy Crichton; H Sharples. Some taken in Italy Quantity: 53 b&w original photographic print(s).

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

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-035

Description: Home Guard training. Includes photographs showing building of defence works, mock battles, rifle drill, manoevures, constructing pine log cabins, on patrol in bush country, recruitment meeting at Palmerston North, etc. Shows Lower Hutt Home Guard, Greenlane Home Guard, Mounted Squadron at Lake Rotorua, on manoevures at Lake Coleridge and on West Coast. Photograph of Brigadier Nathan of Blenheim District. Photographs taken by various photographers including official and Evening Post. Quantity: 83 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 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: DA-01816

Description: Members of the Wellington Home Guard and US Marine Corps personel, taking part in the School of Bush and Mountain Warfare in burnt bush on the Marchant Ridge, Tararua Range. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 31 Mar 1992

From: Huntly Coalfields oral history project

By: McCallum, John Kirk, 1904-1993

Reference: OHInt-0020/16

Description: Jock McCallum describes coming to Rotowaro; sports teams; using horses in Rotowaro No 1 Mine; payrates and work expenses; walking; meeting wife at dance; getting sacked in 1951; shops at Rotowaro; getting train to Huntly; going to Huntly Working Men's Club; cigarettes in the mines; glenie lamps and mines rescue station; building a road in the Depression (1930s); fate of brothers; being in home guard in World War II; mates in the coal mines; people killed at Renown Mine. Recalls board and pillar mining; shooting tops; extracting coal; ventilation; buying house at Rotowaro; starting at Renown; local Maori; holidays, fishing; mother's work; the 1951 strike; working in retirement; example of underviewer that he didn't get on with. Venue - Huntly Interviewer(s) - Jamie Mackay Venue - Karolie Rest Home, 251 River Road, Hamilton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004405 Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.16 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 736 - also contains excerpts of tape transcripts.

Date: 13 Apr 1994

From: Greater Green Island oral history project

By: Richardson, Catherine Mackay, 1911-1997

Reference: OHInt-0616/34

Description: Catherine Richardson (nee Murie) born Edinburgh, Scotland, 1911. Briefly details reason for family emigrating to New Zealand in 1920. Recalls life on board the `Benalla' and initial impression of Green Island. Talks about Green Island school and refers to visit of Sir Thomas McKenzie. Mentions headmaster, Mr Hilgendorf. Other memories include: Sunday School at Kirkland Hall, with a brief reference to Rev Kilpatrick also later teaching at Sunday school; entertainment which included dances at St Mark's Church and balls (dances) run by Green Island Young Ladies Club; domestic work and house appliances in the home; work of Busy Bees; World War One and disruption at night by the Home Guard; helping with afternoon teas at the Green Island Bowling Club and opening of Salvation Army Hall, with reference to Sunday school children called `Sunbeams'. Recalls a brass band in Green Island and lists some of the conductors. Also lists retailers etc in the town. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Glenys Whittington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010125 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3383. Photocopies of two b&w photographs: (i) Showing old Presbyterian Church - Kirkland Hall & Buchanan's store to r[ight] of church taken ca 1913-1923; (ii) Showing Charlie Bell's Chemist & Doctor's rooms - and old Green Island Presbyterian Church

Date: 28 Aug 1997

From: Haining Street Oral History Project

By: Weeds, John James, 1908-2004

Reference: OHInt-0455-19

Description: Interview with Jack (John) Weeds, born in London in 1908. Talks about the family emigrating to New Zealand when he was a baby, moving to Wellington in 1914, and his parents parting while he was still at school. Refers to two older brothers being killed in World War One. Comments on leaving school to work after standard 6, being married with two children during the Depression, and doing relief work on the Tinakori hills. Talks about being introduced to Taranaki Street and pakapoo by his father-in-law. Comments on police raids, being caught once, and the pakapoo den owner paying his fine. Mentions delivering in the area when he worked as a driver for the breweries delivering beer to homes. Talks about being in the home guard as a driver during World War II, driving ambulances used to transport the sick and wounded from ships to (and between) hospitals. Interviewer(s) - Lynette Shum Accompanying material - Photocopied map of the Haining Street area with annotations; photocopy of pakapoo tickets Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-018727 - OHC-018728 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1.45 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2455. Search dates: 1908 - 1997

Date: 1941

From: Consolidated Gold Fields of New Zealand Ltd : Records

Reference: 76-083-15/12

Description: Includes `Operational control of the Home Guard', C G Goss (Colonel), Army Headquarters, 1941; nominal rolls Reefton Home Guard; papers re training, etc Gore Porter was a sergeant major, Wellington Mounted Rifles WWI Quantity: 1 folder(s).