Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-048

Description: Kaiser Wilhelm reacting angrily to being hit on the head by a falling coconut in Indonesia. The Dutch East Indies was an earlier name for Indonesia Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1914

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-007

Description: A French soldier, the French words for the song 'It's a long way to Tipperary' written alongside him. He holds a German pickelhaube helmet in his hands, referred to in the words of the song Another version of this drawing is numbered E-024-q-1-067 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm Provenance: , 1970s Transfers: Transferred from MS-Papers-0016.

Date: 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-030

Description: A German soldier in a pickelhauber helmet, standing by signs pointing to Paris and announcing 'Meaux no further'. Refers to the German Spring Offensive of May - June 1918, reaching Meaux, outside Paris. Other versions of this drawing are numbered E-024-q-018 and E-024-q-1-018 Further information: Robley has included explanatory notes, left and right of the drawing, explaining the 1918 Spring offensive and that 'Meaux was nearest point to Paris in the German rush' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1914 - 1919

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-039

Description: A world map, showing German colonies lost under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, including land in Africa, China, and the Pacific, the latter including the Marshall Islands, the Caroline Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago and Samoa (captured by New Zealand in 1914). A small drawing of a tailless German eagle appears on the page, lower left. Robley has added an annotation in red ink referring to the New Zealand role in taking Samoa from Germany in 1914. Other versions of this drawing (minus the eagle) are held at E-024-q-1-062 and E-024-q-1-062-a Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1920

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-057

Description: A large carved figure inside the palisades of a pa. A small Maori boy touches the stomach of the carved figure and holds a weapon in his other hand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1914 - 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-015

Description: A scene inside a German prisoner-of-war camp, with a work gang labouring beyond a barbed wire fence in the background, a smiling German officer watching a prisoner carrying parcels in the foreground. Additional information: Text to the left of the drawing adds 'The Threat. ... If necessary we must kils the hundreds of thousands of prisoners who are now consuming our provisions ... it would be inevitable if there was no other way of holding out. Press, Berlin. Translation' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1914 - 1918

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-017

Description: Bags of gold, some labelled in German as coming from traitors, from Russia, from France and from propaganda. A snake slides around and guards the bags. Refers to the German means of funding their war effort Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1919

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-052

Description: A German professor in conversation with his wife. He holds a sheet of newspaper. Refers to German disbelief at their loss of World War I, and to the severity of reparations imposed by the Allies Other versions of this drawing at E-024-q-1-057 and -057-a do not identify the man speaking as a 'Hun professor' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1914 - 1920

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-002

Description: Head and shoulders caricatures of three German men in uniform. All have moustaches, all are laughing. One wears a monocle, one a pair of spectacles Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 343 x 240 mm

Date: 1928

From: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 :Episodes of the Great War. 1914-1928

Reference: E-024-f-2-061

Description: An Arab man dressed in white, a scimitar in his right hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash on postcard, 240 x 343 mm