Machine guns

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

Reference: PA1-q-290

Description: Official photographs from World War II, many of which have captions. Most of the men named are listed above, but where there are large groups, some of the names are noted below. Only pages 1-30 have photographs attached; page 31 contains a number of loose captions which have no photographs attached; and pages 32-149 are empty. Photographs linked with New Zealand airmen training in Canada include photographs of a Christmas party given for English and Polish refugee children and 100 ANZAC pilots in Canada (p 8); some of the men on leave in New York (p 15-16); three New Zealand airmen in North Western Alaska (Stan N Askew, Robert B Graham and Len Burgess); wireless operators in the Canadian Wireless School; group of New Zealand Sergeant Pilots who have received their "Wings" at a Canadian Flying Training School (P E Mason (Herne Bay), C G Suckling (New Lynn), E K Buchanan (Takapuna), K Irwin (Tuawai), V S Roberts (New Lyncc), D J T Hills (Whakatane), W A Kalka (Grey Lynn), and J H Moore (Auckland)). The New Zealand High Commissioner in London visited NZ personnel at an RAF station; Winston Churchill is seen on a visit to the Western Desert paying silent tribute at a small temporary cemetery marked by crosses bordered by tin cans; burnt out and crashed Nazi planes from the Libyan campaign; and weapon inspection before going out on night patrols. Pages 19-21 show the Kiwi Concert Party at various sites, including scenes of their camping en route. There are views of patients and medical officers at the 2nd NZ General Hospital at Kantara (p 25-26); and several views of Montgomery presenting awards to New Zealand troops (p 28-30). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 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: PA1-q-294

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in Greece, Crete, the Middle East and Egypt during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album includes a number of official photographs taken for the British official records. Many of the personnel identified are listed above, but group portraits in which individuals are identified are not listed above. Many views show aspects of military training in the desert, including machine guns, rifles, manoeuvres, Bren guns, range practice, and anti-tank guns. New Zealand Divisional Cavalry. In England military training and preparation includes scenes of the New Zealand High Commissioner in London, William Joseph Jordan, watching New Zealand lumberjacks from the New Zealand Forestry Corps in a Gloucester forest felling trees for war purposes. Also related to England are scenes of the Duke of Gloucester inspecting troops, and King George VI at an investiture at Buckingham Palace investing Flight-Sergeant Williams with his Distinguished Flying Medal for gallantry in air operations. Long Range Desert patrols and expeditions into enemy territory showing the difficult terrain they had to negotiate. Views of a formation of five American-built Lockheed Hudson aircraft of the RAF Coastal Command carrying out an action patrol near Borkum, Heligoland and the Danish Coast. They are the first released photographs taken while under fire from German anti-aircraft ships, flying only 200 ft above the sea because of the weather (p 15-21). One image shows a wireless operator checking one of H.M. the King's homing pigeons, presented to the RAF to carry messages in case of a forced landing & breakdown of wireless. Arrival of NZ airmen & pilots for duty with the RAF in 1941. Gift of fruit and vegetables presented to NZ troops stationed in Fiji, transported 60 miles by boat from Kandavu, formally accepted by Brigadier Cunningham. (A number of images of Cunningham are dotted throughout the album). Views of the sinking of the Italian raider Ramb I, by HMS Leander in February 1941 (p 33-37). Scenes of a huge field bakery run by Egyptian bakers which can supply 3500 loaves each day. Also the "Waiwera Hotel - the 'ouse on the 'ill" cookhouse in the desert; and other scenes of food preparation. Relaxation organised by the YMCA, and the opening of the Lowry Hut run by the YMCA. Shipboard life on a transport ship, including games, relaxation and officers censoring mail. Floods after heavy rain in the Western Desert along the Mediterranean fringe (p 61-64). The Oranje leaving Amsterdam on her maiden voyage; used as hospital ship for Australian and New Zealand forces. Groups at the Royal Canadian Air Force Bombing and Gunnery School, all of whom are named (p 67-69). Prime Minister Peter Fraser's visit to the Middle East (p 69-72), his visit to Greece (p 93-105), and inspecting the hospital ship Maunganui (p110-111).) The No. 1 General Hospital in Greece. War damage to New Zealand House in London (p 105-106). Italian prisoners of war in a soccer match "NZ vs Italy" in Egypt (p 79-81); German parachute troops wounded and taken prisoner in Crete; captured swastikas used to hoodwink the enemy into dropping supplies. Fighting and evacuation of Crete. Evacuation of the Greek Royal party by a bodyguard of New Zealand soldiers, with views of a reception given by His Majesty the King of Greece, showing Lieutenant W H Ryan, Princess Marie, lady Palairet, Prince George, Prince Peter, and British military attache Colonel J S Blunt. Group portrait of New Zealanders in Britain training for the Fleet Air Arm (members named). Members of the New Zealand Bomber Squadron of the RAF who have been part of the raids on Germany, particularly on Berlin. (Several group portraits, some of which are named). Several photographs of unidentified men who escaped from Crete in barges. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 398-791 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1900

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to the South African War. 1899-1902]

By: Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd; Duncan, N B (Mrs), active 1954

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-SA-1900-06

Description: Voucher printed in green with the British coat of arms at the top. It is signed by Captain H Greener, chief paymaster, and issued by authority of Colonel R S S Baden-Powell. There are illustrations of a machine-gun[?] operator and a soldier beside a cannon. The ticket is rubber-stamped with the number 4816 (the 6 is indistinct). According to the website at http://www.tokencoins.com/rarest.htm, "this ten-shilling note was printed from a woodcut, using a croquet mallet cut in half for the block. As each issue of notes was released into circulation, the army paymaster gave the notes authority by depositing a cheque of an equivalent amount into the Mafeking branch of the Standard Bank of South Africa". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on ticket, 118 x 159 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs N B Duncan, in 1954. Transfers: Previously housed at Curios-024-a-001..

Date: Between 1910 and 1913

By: T.E. Taylor (Firm)

Reference: PA5-0223

Description: A street scene in Akaroa, NZ showing a gun carriage, taken by T E Taylor & Co. Ltd, between 1910-1913 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 85 x 135 mm

Date: [1943-1944]

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-302

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Pacific theatre during World War 2, 1943-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified are listed above, but while many others are identified in group portraits they are not named above. Many scenes show NZers in training exercises in New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands, including Bren carriers crossing rivers on raft & trestles erected by military engineers; signals; road construction; thatching and constructing buildings (the Works Construction Unit); amphibious training from invasion barges; unloading and landing supplies; transporting guns and equipment; bridge building; digging fox holes and camping in the jungle; jungle warfare; maintaining wireless communication; organising camouflage; repairing damaged weapons; use of local canoes for transportation; ordnance workshops; and weapon training. Many scenes show parades, and inspections, including the King's Birthday parade in New Caledonia; a church parade; the Hon Mr F Jones visiting NZ troops; visit of Hon W Perry; visit of General Freyberg; visit of Admiral Halsey (US); and visit of the Governor of New Caledonia. Sporting activities, including individual players and group portraits of various teams of rugby players, soccer teams, hockey teams, swimming teams and a carnival, boat races, athletics, jockeys and horse racing, wrestling and boxing; surf clubs including the Engineers' team, Infantry No 2 team, and the Signals' team. Daily scenes including food preparation and coking; an anti-mosquito campaign; a leave centre for pacific troops; a dance sponsored by the American Red Crosss Service Club, and a celebration of New Zealand Day at the club; casting votes for NZ elections and a visit of scrutineers overseeing the voting; NZEF Base Repertory Players and the Kiwi Concert Party; a Base Camp reception at the hospital in New Caledonia; a garden party held by the Officers' School; Xmas parcels for NZ troops in the advanced Pacific Base. Images linked with medical care in New Caledonia, Guadalcanal and Treasury Islands include hospitals; medical personnel including dental surgeons, opticians and nurses; convalescent depot; and evacuation and transportation of the sick and wounded; and scenes of funeral services and graves of NZ soldiers in the Solomon Islands. Transportation of equipment and troops loading and embarking for the north from New Caledonia; landing craft; Liberty ships; New Zealanders in Guadalcanal. The NZ Brigade arriving in Guadalcanal, and the move from Guadalcanal to Vella Lavella on board L.S.Ts (Landing ship, tank); climbing up nets on the side of transports; bulldozer drawing heavy vehicles and equipment from the L.S.T.; New Zealand soldiers with Fijian commandoes; use of outrigger canoes; capture of a Japanese armed coastal barge, a Japanese supply boat and camp equipment left by retreating Japanese. Treasury Islands campaign in which a small group of NZ worked with native guides; two native chiefs who were extremely helpful; a NZ camp at Malsi on Mono Island; Falamai Village; water collection at Saveke River on Mono Island; tree cutting to provide wood for pump bases and flooring; unloading drums of petrol; NZ troops consolidate on Treasury Islands. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 2001

From: Harbour, Kyle, 1968- :Photographs of the New Zealand Army in East Timor

Reference: 35mm-43539-7-F

Description: View from a security post, East Timor Finding Aids: Photocopy of this image is on the shelf at PAColl-7641, album 1, image 17.

Date: 2001

From: Harbour, Kyle, 1968- :Photographs of the New Zealand Army in East Timor

Reference: 35mm-43587-17-F

Description: Personal military equipment used when on armoured personnel carrier patrol. There is a machine gun, a hand grenade, and another item in the form of a metal cylinder Finding Aids: Photocopy of this image is on the shelf at PAColl-7641, album 1, image 65.

Date: [ca 1889]

Reference: PA4-0643

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of two machine guns in Quebec, taken by B W Kilburn, ca 1889. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Grand Battery, Quebec, from above; Verso - Photographed and published by B W Kilburn.... Littleton N.H. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 2001

From: Harbour, Kyle, 1968- :Photographs of the New Zealand Army in East Timor

Reference: 35mm-43433-14-F

Description: Sapper Kyle Harbour holding the section gun, East Timor Finding Aids: Photocopy of this image is on shelf at PAColl-7641, album 1, image 3.

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-558-021/041

Description: Political cartoons. Treasury advocates currency union with USA. Lockwoock Smith is put in charge of the Tourism portfolio and left to clean up following the Tourism Board fallout. The battle for the head of the World Trade Organisation continues, New Zealander Mike Moore, is one of the 2 contenders. Drivers face problems and delays as new re-licensing system comes into force. Fire Services boss Roger Estall is advied to quit. Helen Clark launches her election pledge card. Fire Services boss, Roger Estell plunders again in the public relations field. Bill English explains the reason behind selling Contact Energy to overseas investors was to retire overseas debt. Comment on who should pay for using the roads. A Nato representative explains the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. The National Party cabinet discuss what to do with the budget surpluses. Max Bradford suggests buying back the dams and lowering the price of power. After several coup in Fiji, democracy is starting to grow again. Roger Estall, Fire Service boss, is urged to quit and take a Government pay-out. Bill Birch presents his last budget as National Party finance minister. New Zealand celebrates beating the Australians in cricket. Comment on the closing of mental health institutions and patients being thrown to under resourced commuity health services. New Zealand is like a lamb to the slaughter after opening trade to the world by removing trade barriers, however the rest of the world, particularly the United States is not following our lead. Comment on the All Black coach, John Hart dropping Isitolo Maka from the All Black squad. Max Bradford attempts to justify increased power prices due to electricity reform. Paralells are drawn between the sheep subsidy of the 1980's and the effect of MMP in subsidising new politicians. The Crusaders win the Super 12 tournament. Quantity: 21 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1965 - 1972

Reference: Eph-E-VIETNAM-1960s-01

Description: Pink poster shows an illustration of two soldiers running forward in battle, one with a bayonet and one with a machine gun. A jet aeroplane flies in the sky far above. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 890 x 585 mm.

Date: 1 June 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013258-G

Description: Unidentified World War 1 soldiers with a machine gun, in a corn field at Colincamps, France. Photograph taken 1 June 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - H652 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1915 - 1916

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to education trends and methods, teachers and teaching, career-specific education]

By: North Canterbury Education Board

Reference: Eph-B-EDUCATION-1916-01

Description: Certificate showing a simple art nouveau border around text. At top centre is the coat of arms of the Dominion of New Zealand. The text and border are printed in red and black. Accompanied by original envelope addressed to Mr & Mrs Fred Evans of Spreydon, Christchurch. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on pale pink paper, 218 x 277 mm.

Date: 21 August 1918

From: Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918

Reference: 1/2-013498-G

Description: Photograph taken by Henry Armytage Sanders. Record title taken from caption for matching print in album at Library reference PA1-f-094 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 4 x 5 inches

Date: [1941-1942?]

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

Reference: PA1-q-286

Description: Official photographs from World War II, very few of which have captions. Scenes show activities associated with training, social life and daily life in the New Zealand camps in Egypt and the Middle East, with a few relating to New Zealand activity in Fiji, and also scenes of bomb damage at New Zealand House in London. Various activities include the demonstration of light observation towers suitable for flat desert country; soldiers sorting mail; making ammunition ready for firing; artillery training; a NZ "tough bus" towing a gun; a rugby match in the Western Desert; soldiers keeping warm around a small fire; bread making; sorting and delivering stores; repairing vehicles; transporting a vehicle on a pontoon; dinghies; sandbags; storage of fuel with camouflage covering; scenes with Prime Minister Peter Fraser on an official visit to Egypt; interior views of the New Zealand Forces Club in Cairo, with one picture of war artist Peter McIntyre painting a mural in the club; the YWCA building erected, furnished and maintained by the National Patriotic Fund Board showing the exterior, the canteen, and a large group of soldiers at a sing-song around a piano Photographs numbered 453-456 (p 118-119) show bomb damage to the exterior and interior of New Zealand House in London, taken by an official photographer (1941?). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue cloth cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1941? to 1942

By: McLean, Stuart, active 1941-1945

Reference: PA1-o-315

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by Corporal Stuart McLean when he was with the 2NZEF in the Middle East, 1941-1942. Photographs include everyday life, monuments and ancient sites in Beirut, Baalbek, Homs (now Hims), Aleppo (now Halab), and parts of Syria. Scenes associated with the various campaigns in the Middle East and North Africa, include one of Nissen huts in Syria, machine gunners and sweeping for landmines in the Western desert, captured enemy guns, the wreck of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 (ME 109), some of the 74,000 prisoners taken at El Alamein, and parades and medal presentation (seen from a distance) after the North African Campaign. Of the 32 pages in the album, only pages 1 to 16 are used (with one photograph attached inside the front cover). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with leather cover, embossed illustration of a Middle Eastern mosque (with camels in the foreground) on front cover; back cover decorated with an Egyptian style frieze; 17 x 23 cm

By: Underwood & Underwood (Firm)

Reference: PA4-0527

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of machine guns being fired at Port Arthur, taken by photographer from Underwood and Underwood. Inscriptions: Mount verso - beneath image - Great 11-inch Japanese siege guns firing 500 lb. shells into Port Arthur. Copyright Underwood and Underwood Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: ca 1911, 1916, 1940 - 1952

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-040

Description: Photographs relating to military activities, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes a series of photographs of the State Forest Air Patrol, Royal New Zealand Air Force, in 1947, and photographs of Captain J Forsyth at the Polish Army League premises in Palmerston North. Also includes photographs of soldiers, guns, Fort Ballance, Kallang Civil Airport at Singapore in 1950 and the helmet plate of the New Zealand Regular Force of 1880 to 1911. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 2011

By: Twins Digital Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-PRINTING-2011-01

Description: Poster pastiche of the poster for the American movie "I am Legend" starring Will Smith. This version shows a young Wellington man, holding an automatic rifle over his right shoulder and a backpack in his left hand. He walks beside an Alsatian dog through the canyon of a city street, lit from behind by a fire of destruction. The poster was designed to find the young man a girlfriend, and was a component part of one of three similar campaigns for different individuals (involving billboards, billstickers, hoardings and radio coverage). Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Digital print, 435 x 227 mm. Provenance: Donated by Phantom Billstickers, December 2011.

Date: 2001

From: Harbour, Kyle, 1968- :Photographs of the New Zealand Army in East Timor

Reference: 35mm-43490-35-F

Description: Sapper Kyle Harbour with a Singaporean section gun, East Timor Finding Aids: Photocopy of this image is on the shelf at PAColl-7641, album 1, image 16.