Weir, Stephen Cyril Ettrick (Sir), 1904-1969

Weir, C E, 1904-1969, Weir, Cyril Ettrick, 1904-1969, Weir, Steve, 1904-1969, Weir, Steven, 1904-1969

Military leader, ambassador. See Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Vol 5, W17.

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Malayan Emergency Official album 1, NZ Army, SAS no 17

Date: 1955-1957

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-318

Description: A Mr Peter Cooper was sent to Malaya during 1955-1957 as an official photographer, he may have taken the photographs in this album. Album consists of snapshots and passport-style photographs (6 x 6 cm) showing members of the New Zealand Special Air Service in Malaya between 1955 and 1957. Most captions handprinted in the album. Many personnel names are listed above, but there are over 100 more individual passport-style photographs in the album which have not been listed. Subjects covered include Eban (Iban) trackers from Borneo; life in the jungle including camping with hammock and ground sheet, and erecting a "Basha" or overnight shelter; jungle training; rubber & canvas jungle boots with an average life of 7-10 days; details of food and equipment needed for long periods on patrol in the jungle; cutting tracks through bamboo; checking for CTs (Communist terrorists); fording rivers. Views of Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malay villages; families of the SAS in their army houses; leave in Kuala Lumur; shopping; an Indian temple; the 22 SAS Museum in Kuala Lumpur with examples of Malaysian tools and weapons including CT guns and hand-made saws; and a parade at Coronation park in Kuala Lumpur; various sporting activities. The bulk of the album shows paratroopers in action with NZ SAS members boarding a naval helicopter; practice helicopter landing drill; practice loading of casualties (helicopters being used chiefly for casualty evacuation); guiding helicopters to land; native people wathcing helicopters land; clearing in the jungle for landing strips. Troops preparing for parachute jumps; parachute packing hangar; donning parachutes; troops inside Vickers Valetta transport aircraft; aerial views from plane; jumping at 800 ft. Later in the album there are more images of parachute training indoors from a "FAN" trainer (so called because harness was attached to a wind fan which gave resistance equal to a parachute on a jump) from a platform about 30 ft high. Earlier training was taken at Takapau and Waiouru; use of camouflage nets; field cookhouse; wading a creek; night exercise; jeep ambush; "Angus" the goat (the squadron mascot); flying fox training; Bren gun training; paratrooper training in a gym; clothes and weapons; volunteers for the Special Air Service; followed by parades and farewell march through Wellington before leaving for Malaya. Note that the NZSAS departed from Malaya in Dec 1957 and were replaced by the NZ Regiment Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "N.Z. Army Dept. S.A.S. No. 17"; 36.0 cm x 23.5 cm

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New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch : Papers

Date: 1915, 1943-1951

By: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch

Reference: MS-Papers-1555

Description: Notes by Sir H K Kippenberger on strategy after Tunisian campaign, especially in Italy; also Russian military intentions and forces in 1951. Letter, probably from Sir Stephen Weir, detailing actions of 2nd NZ Divisional Artillery, early 1943. Newspaper clippings relating to 1st New Zealand Mounted Rifles. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

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World War II Official album. 2556-3002

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-299

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and Italy during World War 2, 1943-1944, 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. This album changes between the Middle East and Italy, with the bulk of the Middle Eastern images between pages 1 and 71, and the Italian scenes on pages 49-52, and from 72 onwards, with a few Middle Eastern items interspersed. Recreation for soldiers with sporting activities including athletics, cricket, swimming, tennis and softball, some of which are in competition with personnel from other groups including South African Division Artillerymen. New Zealand engineers building a pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal with the help of Belgian Congo troops; NZ reinforcements arriving in the Middle East; troops voluntarily donating blood; parades and inspections by Freyberg and Inglis, and decorations presented by them (p 9-13, 23, 33, 36, 62). Hitchhiking from Maadi into Cairo; street tailors altering uniforms while the soldiers wait (p 15-16); camp cinema. A large number of reunions of personnel from various New Zealand districts held at different restaurants in Cairo, including Rotorua & district; Levin & district; Arrowtown, Queenstown Lakes District; Wairarapa; and Temuka. Occupational therapy for convalescent troops including embroidery and leather-work toys (p 20-22); a leave camp for forces on the Palestinian coast, run by British Army staff assisted by ATS, and Italian Prisoners of War and European women assistants. NZEF in Italy: Members of the PoW Sub-Commission in Taranto; members of the 2nd NZ Division Advance party in Taranto; released prisoners of war; embarkation on troopships from Alexandria for Italy. Funeral at cemetery at El Ballah of 3 nurses and a corporal in a motor accident between Ismailia and Port Said (Private (Miss) P A Morrissey (from Port Ahuriri); Private (Miss) M O McNulty (from Eketahuna); Private (Miss) M Innes (from Masterton); and Corporal S R W Bomford (from Takapuna), all members of the No 2 NZ General Hospital). NZEF Middle East: Award winners of the NZ Division Field Ambulance; personnel with a NZ Air Transport Squadron; members of the NZ Port Detachment; weddings in Egypt; Xmas dinner at the Maori Training Depot, Maadi. George Formby, seen with his wife/manager entertaining troops at El Djem Theatre, Maadi; Mobile Cinema Van donated by NZ Film Exhibitors' Association through the YMCA. Group of 10 men repatriated after time in German prison camps who had been taken in the Grecian Campaign; 4 brothers from the Duncan family from Wellington reunited at Maadi (S/Sgt A T Duncan, Capt R J Duncan, Pte H G Duncan and Cpl G J Duncan); photo of brothers A J and S R Halkett who arrived back in Canterbury after having been together in the firing line, in a shipwreck, in a prison camp and in a successful escape.t NZEF in Italy: men of transports from Alexandria to Bari; troops in Bari; artillery duels on the Sangro River Front; party of Russian military observers visiting the 8th Army (p 82-83); road construction, mud, road deviations constructed after demolition of bridge; water carts being filled at Sangro River, and filling canvas water tanks for filtering and storage; repair of tents and canvas items by NZ soldier A A Patmore on a sewing machine behind the lines; small arms repair; bootmaker; visit of senior officials from the British Army to HQ 2NZ Division in Italy; destruction of the village of Gessopalena by the Germans. Arrival of Patriotic parcels in Italy, Xmas 1943; Xmas dinner; snow on New Year's Eve; NZ Forces Club in Bari (p 109-110), with NZ sisiters and members of VAD at the club, and soldiers in the writing room of the club; inspection and awards by freyberg in the Volturno Valley; soldiers washing vehicles, and Italian women washing clothes in a stream near Alife in the Volturno valley. Two scenes with Peter Fraser one at Pearl Harbour with Admiral Chester W Nimitz, and Robert L Ghormly (p 116); and his arrival at National Airport, Washington in April 1944, with Walter Nash, Mrs Nash and Mrs Fraser (p 116). NZEF in Italy: Bivvies and dugouts to cope with the cold; the No 2 NZ General Hospital (p 121-123); the Monte Cassino area (p 124-136), with bombing, destruction, villagers living in caves after homes demolished by Germans; Airmen serving with the RAF in the Cassino area recording messages to be broadcast in NZ; preparation for transport of supplies over the Inferno Track, only possible at night. New Zealand Infantry Brigade Band in Italy; malaria control (p 138-140); Malaria School established by the NZ Field Hygiene Section; preventative spraying; routine taking of anti-malarial tablets; examination of Italian children for signs of malaria. Airmen in italy; men on leave at "200 Rest Home" giving free amenities to troops on 4 day's leave from the front line; sorting of winter clothing after summer clothing had been issued; Registrar's office and staff at the No 1 General Hospital, Molfetta. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 2556-3002. 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

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Weir, Gerald Hill, 1896-1971 :Photographs

Date: [1911-1914, 1939-1945]

By: Weir, Gerald Hill, 1896-1971

Reference: PAColl-9441

Description: Photographs relating to Sandy Weir's service in World War I in Samoa and photographs sent to him by his brother Major-General Steve Weir during World War II Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Weir, Gerald Hill, 1896-1971: Papers (MS-Papers-9271).

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World War, 1939-1945. New Zealand. General Sir Bernard L Montgomery

Date: 1940-1943

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: PAColl-4161-01-215

Description: Series of photographs taken during Lt Gen B L Montgomery's visit to NZ Division to present decorations awarded for gallantry. Those who received decorations include: Gunner Johnson; Brig W G Gentry; Sgt R J G Mack; Captain W Porter; Cpl Russell; Captain Wilson; Brig C E Weir; Major H M McElroy; Sgt Keith Elliott; Captain Stevens. Lt Gen Montgomery inspecting men of the 5th Brigade, 6th Brigade, Divisional Cavalry, and machine gunners; congratulating the `Left Hook' troops ( NZ and English armoured troops) who took part in the outflanking movement which turned Rommel's Mareth Line defences, 1943; Montgomery dictating terms to the Lieutenant Governor and officials of Tripoli town and Tripolitania at Castel Benito Gate on entering the town; at British Embassy, Cairo talking with repatriated NZ and Australian soldiers from Italy when these men were entertained; Gen Montgomery with NZ GOC and Brigadiers Gentry and Weir. Quantity: 47 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

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New Zealand. Army. NZEF. New Zealand Field Artillery :Greetings from N.Z.A. Xmas 1943. ...

Date: 1943

By: Crippen, Jack William, 1916-1985

Reference: Eph-A-CARDS-Christmas-WWII-Graham-1943-01

Description: Christmas card, produced for New Zealand Artillery soldiers to send, containing a short message from Brigadier C E Weir, Commander of the Second NZEF in the Middle East. The front cover shows machine gunners at three corners, aiming their guns towards an explosion of fire, in which the Greetings message is written. Brigadier Weir's message, dated 1 October 1943, reads: "To those who would enjoy the qualities of valour, fortitude, the disciplined and common sense application to labour, and above all, the true companionship of mankind, let them come hither". This card was sent by "Jeff" to "Kath & Jim and the family" Other Titles - Christmas Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 101 x 145 mm. tied at left with pink and blue cotton cord

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Group portrait of 7th Anti-Tank Regiment, New Zealand Army at Hopuhopu

Date: 16 January 1940

From: Longmore, Kenneth Alfred , 1918-2021 : Collection

Reference: PA6-910

Description: Panoramic group portrait of officers and non-commissioned officers of the 7th Anti-Tank Regiment taken at the New Zealand Army Camp at Hopuhopu. On one side of the picture several tents and other soldiers can be seen. A sticker on the reverse bears the note "Ken [Longmore] thinks this should be 6th field regiment with Steve Weir, later knighted". Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Special Force 2nd Echelon; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Officers & N.C.O.s. 7th Anti Tank Regt. N.Z.A.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - 'Hopu-Hopu' N.Z. 16-1-40; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Coxon Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white panoramic photograph, 14 x 58 cm. Transfers: Item has been separated from MS-Papers-12871-2..

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Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002 :Negatives of Wellington, and national events and persona...

Date: 1955-1971

By: Hill, Morris James, 1929-2002

Reference: PA-Group-00375

Description: Wellington, openings of Parliament, politicians, Governors General, show personalities, Antarctic teams, police, army, visiting diplomats and heads of state, ship visits, memorials, RNZAF, fighter planes and fighter plane training, rugby and rugby players and selectors, film censorship, conferences, agricultural air shows, artists, royalty, manufacturing industries, models and fashion parades, New Zealand Players, etc Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: Negatives housed at 35mm-18037 to 18703, 120-0881 to 0959, 1/4-071736 to 072044, 1/2-177020 to 177461. Quantity: 1483 b&w original negative(s) 78 120 strips comprising 158 images, 666 35mm strips comprising 1,976 images, 308 1/4 plate negs, 441 1/2 plate negs. Total images 2,883. Finding Aids: Library generated negative registers provide a good access point to this collection. The negatives are listed within subject groupings.. Processing information: Originally arranged and described in 1995. Reference number changed from PAColl-4814 to PA-Group-00375 in 2009.

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World War II Official album. 2115-2555

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.

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World War II Official album. 1669-2114

Date: 1941 to 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: McIntyre, Peter, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-297

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in the Middle East and England during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official purposes. Many individuals identified in the album are listed above. Scenes include physical training at the School of Instruction, Maadi Camp; reproductions of paintings by war artist Peter McIntyre (p 1-2, 93); scenes with His Excellency the Governor-General of NZ, Sir Cyril Newall, visiting Samoa and Fiji in 1942 (p 2-7); New Zealand members of ski units including members of the Maori Battalion at the Ninth Army Ski School in Syria; NZEF and Red Cross distribution of flour to Syrian people; parade through Aleppo. Officers, nursing sisters and Lady Freyberg at Anzac Day service at Maadi Camp in 1942; the visit of the NZ High Commissioner to a "west coast port", William Jordan and officers of NZ ships; arrival of pilots and observers for the RAF; scenes with King George VI & Queen Elizabeth visiting RAF Bomber Command, and the King watching landing exercises in Scotland. New Zealanders after withdrawing from the Libyan engagement; engineers constructing roads, lines of communication and supply in Transjordan; working with Arabs, reconstructing ancient wells; NZers in Amman. Group of NZers at Rouen sent back to Germany when arrangement with German authorities for mutual repatriation of prisoners broke down; NZ medical personnel repatriated from Italy to the Middle East under the Geneva Convention (many named); the Duke of Gloucester visiting the NZ camp at Maadi; locomotives being unlaoded on lighters and NZ engineers in their living quarters on the lighters at a Syrian port. The Pacific War Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Entertainment and sport for NZ troops in the Middle East included cricket, racing, bathing in the Dead Sea, boxing and wrestling championships. Campaign against malaria, widening and deepening drains; participation at the Western desert battle front; Visit of a party of NZers to a bandit stronghold in Syra (p 62-64); Sergeant James Allen Ward's VC with illustrations (p 71-72); Winston Churchill visiting NZers in the Western Desert (p 77-80, 82); the Alamein front; the NZ General Hospital at Beirut in Syria housed in former French barracks (p 86-90). A studio party in New York for Unted Servicement; a New York Bond Party; and later, a group of NZers in New York. RNZAF training in Canada (group portrait); NZers in North Western Alaska, and a group of wireless operators in Canada. Recipients of awards (named above); Kiwi Concert Party. Pursuit of the Axis Forces and war material abandoned by Germans and Italians (p 104-125); advance to Tripoli (p 128-138). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22 cm

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Wreath laying ceremony during a reunion of 6th Field Regiment, 2nd NZEF, Christchurch

Date: 2 Jun 1968

From: Holland, Roy, 1894-1975:Portraits of Labour politicians, and lantern slides compiled by Harry Holland; also WW2 veterans on parade, including Sir Stephen Weir

Reference: 1/2-080892-F

Description: Wreath laying ceremony during a reunion of 6th Field Regiment, 2nd NZEF, Christchurch, 2 June 1968. Shows Major-General Sir Stephen Weir (left), also R C Holland (centre), and C L Hunter (right). Photographer unidentified. Other - Note on back of file print of 1/2-080891 reads: "The '53' on the red and navy blue artillery background is the unit number on all unit vechicles, signposts and tracks for identification - guidance" Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Manuscript

Letters

Date: 1941-1942

From: Brickell, Dennis Rickman, 1915-1989 : Papers relating to experiences in World War Two

Reference: MS-Papers-4347-3

Description: Two letters from Brigadier S Weir (Steve), 2nd Libyan Campaign, addressed to `Dear Sandy' Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Manuscript

Personal correspondence - Sir Stephen Weir (2)

Date: 1963

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-370

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescrripts

Manuscript

Papers

Date: 1965, 1968, n d

From: Henderson, James Herbert, 1918-2005 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1240-1

Description: Includes: Speech against the sending of NZ troops to Vietnam `...before a national poll is taken... ', dated 22 May 1965; The call of the Kolo, the Yugoslav in our far North (partial text and cue sheets of a radio documentary), dated 22 Aug 1965; Letter to a commanding officer [Sir Stephen Weir], dated 27 Apr 1968; Our wayside pin-up, 1870s, undated `Home country' article by William Brooks, Nelson bullocky, published in the `NZ farmer'; also letters reminiscing about William Brooks; 22 Battalion - note on the deletion from the published history Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Manuscript

Personal correspondence - Sir Stephen Weir (3)

Date: 1964

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-371

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Manuscript

Weir, Gerald Hill, 1896-1971 : Papers

Date: 1914-1920, 1940-1946

By: Weir, Gerald Hill, 1896-1971

Reference: MS-Papers-9271

Description: Contains pay books and military ephemera relating to Gerald Weir's service in World War 1, 1914-1920, including Samoa, France and England. Also letters written to him by his brother, Major-General Steven Weir during World War Two that contain an account of his activities while on active service with the 2nd NZEF. Gerald (Sandy) Weir was the brother of Major-General Stephen Weir. At the beginning of World War Two Stephen Weir took command of the 6th Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, 2nd NZEF and led it during the Greek and North African campaigns. In December 194l he was appointed commander of Royal New Zealand Artillery. In mid June 1944 during the Italian Campaign Weir was appointed artillery commander for 10 Corps and in November 1944 he was appointed commander of the British 46th Infantry Division which he led for the remainder of the war. Quantity: 7 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: Collection as a whole received by Manuscripts. Transfers made from here. - To Photographic Archive - Two black and white group photographs of the 5th Wellington Regiment, 1914 and photographs of Stephen Weir while on active service in World War Two (PAColl-9441) - To Book Collections - Soldiers and sailors' guide to London and In a soldier's life, digger stories ' by Herbert Scanlon.

Manuscript

Personal correspondence - Sir Stephen Weir (4)

Date: 1965

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-372

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Manuscript

Personal correspondence - Sir Stephen Weir (1)

Date: 1962

From: McIntosh, Alister Donald (Sir), 1906-1978 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6759-369

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

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Nicholson, Ralph H, fl 1945 : Photographs of World War II soldiers

Date: [between 1939-1945]

By: Keith, Hamish, active 1941-1949

Reference: PAColl-9981

Description: Photographs of World War II soldiers Ralph H Nicholson and Colonel Stephen Weir, both in uniform. Images show: - a head and shoulders portrait of Nicholson taken circa 1939-1945 by Christchurch photographer Hamish Keith - a full length standing portrait of Colonel Stephen Weir when he was Nicholson's commanding officer, taken by Nicholson, outside barracks, probably in Egypt between 1941-1942. (Note, hand written on back of print by Nicholson, reads: Our C.O. Colonel "Steve" Weir and a jolly good "bloke". I took this snap just after Greece, outside our barracks where we lived at A- for three weeks) Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints Provenance: Donated by Mrs Janette Tretheway, Christchurch, 2012. Donor is daughter of Ralph H Nicholson. Transfers: Collection taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from there. - From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2058: Nicholson, Ralph H, fl 1945: Papers.

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Brigadier C A Weir shaking hands with Major General W G Gentry

Date: 1955

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1955/1640-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches