Gilbert, William Herbert Ellery (Sir), 1915-1987

Date: 1944-1945

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-301

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in Italy 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. Officers and personnel of the 9th NZ Infantry Brigade and of the 6th NZ Infantry Brigade at Trieste; thanksgiving service on the occasion of the end of war in Europe, and presentation of awards by Lt-Gen Sir B C Freyberg. Group portraits of No 1 & No 2 Platoons of Mechanical Equipment Company of New Zealand Divisional Engineers; various sports and entertainments including a trotting meeting at Montebello, Trieste; swimming regatta; athletics; hurdles; yacht race; skiing and staying at the NZ Alpine leave centre at Madonna di Campiglio, in the Brenta di Dolomiti (Southern Dolomites); sports in Florence (Allied track and field championships); swimming championships at Rome; water polo; motor cycle speedway events and rugby. New Zealand staff at the NZ Forces Clubs in Bari, in Rome, in Florence and in Venice. A memorial visit to Crete by members of the NZ Division who had been in the Cretan campaign in 1941, as guests of honour at a luncheon given by the people of Galatas; visits to the old Head Quarters; and a memorial service at the military cemetery; other memorial services at the Sangro Military Cemetery and at the Cassino War Cemetery. New Zealand troops on leave in the United Kingdom, visiting Hampton Court, Victoria Barracks, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral. Scenes with Freyberg inspecting troops before they leave for New Zealand; also members of "Jay Force" during their training in the Florence area; an illuminated address presented to Lt-Gen Sir B C Freyberg by 28 Maori Battalion during his farewell visit to the Divisional Unit, (the address includes a wooden frame carved by Charles Iotua Tuarau); Freyberg saying farewell to nursing staff at the NZ General Hospital (Florence); married men of the Tenth Reinforcement at the NZ Advance Base awaiting transport home; group portrait of the staff of the NZ Army Post Office at Bari on the day the post office disbanded. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, darker blue corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1942 - 1966 - 1969

Reference: Eph-B-SIS-1940/1973

Description: Includes: ca 1941: New Zealand's Gestapo; this fair country now has its Himmler and its SS men (re Kenneth Folkes, Lieutenant Cutfield, Lieutenant Staveley Ellis, Second Lieutenant Terence McLean, and many other named individuals). (Document of 2 sheets) 1966: To all students (by Dick G Wood, re a demonstration at Victoria University against Mr D Godfrey). 1 June 1966 (yellow flyer) Salient special issue, 3 October 1966. "Exec condemns smear attempt", re Communist sympathisers and Roger Boshier) 1969: Salient special issue, 17 April 1969. "Security agent on campus", by Roger Wilde, with photograph of Rex J Banks Teach-in. Security; the dilemma of the democrat. Sunday 8 June 1969, Victoria University Student Union Building (speakers Alister Taylor, Nigel Taylor, Roderick Alley, Walter J Scott, Geoffrey Palmer, Ken Douglas, George Goddard, Professor W E Murphy, Hector MacNeill, and National and Labour Party spokesmen). Flyer Demonstrate against Security. S.U. Quad, 1 pm today [and accompanying sheet] The Security Service. Security? This building ostensibly the office of I G Stephens & Associates, market researchers, is in fact the district office, Auckland (D.O.A.) of the Security Intelligence Organization. [Issued by] University Socialist Society / Progressive Youth [June 1969] Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Cyclostyled sheets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: ca 1976

By: Gilbert, Oliver Richard, 1947-

Reference: 1/2-190591-F

Description: Portrait of Sir William Herbert Ellery Gilbert (1916-1987), military leader and intelligence service director, taken ca 1976, probably by a Security Intelligence Service photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative 12.5 x 10 cm

Date: 1979

By: Gilbert, William Herbert Ellery (Sir), 1915-1987

Reference: MSX-3595

Description: Copy of the book `The SIS', by Michael Parker, with annotations made by Brigadier Gilbert, former head of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter with mss annotations Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, John Quilter, Wellington, 1992

Date: 1974 - 1976

Reference: Eph-B-SIS-1974/1976

Description: Includes: 1975: Snoop of the week [re "Mr S", witness in the case of Dr W B Sutch, ie William Oliver Christopher Horton Bennetts. 1975?]. Printed and published by Privy Council Enterprises in support of freedom of speech. Flyer (2 copies) A question of principle [re W B Sutch, Alister Taylor, Brian Edwards], by John Roberts, Victoria University (2 copies) Campaign to Oppose the Security Service. PO Box 1147, Wellington. [Flyer / request for membership fee] 1976: Burble; a broadsheet of no fixed abode that comes out every so often or as the case may be. "National's blackest scheme" [a satirical report re Minister of Labour John Bowie Gordon. 1976?] (2 copies) S.I.S.; how it originated; why it must be disbanded. Hear Alister Taylor, publisher and authority on S.I.S. Young Socialist Forum, Wed. Mar. 17th, Rm 202 top floor Student Union, 1 pm [1976?] Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Cyclostyled and photocopied sheets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.