Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Frank Perham - Papers
Primary Maker
Date
1901-1902
1957-1959
Physical Description
2 folders containing a total of 14 items
Level of Current Record
Parent
Member Object
Related Object Notes
Cenotaph database records for Luke and Frank Perham.
Pictorial Department holds one photograph album and two hand-coloured photographic portraits (36 x 43 cm) of brothers Luke and Frank Perham. [Location: Photographic Print Room; Call Nos. Album 517; and TR485 P439(1-2)]
Perham, Frank. 'The Kimberley Flying Column : being reminiscences of service in the South African War of 1899-1903', Printers and Publishers, Timaru, 1959. [Call No. DT932 Per]
Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum, Waiouru, holds the diaries of Luke and Frank Perham.
Stowers, Richard. 'Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer war 1899-1902 and information on all members of the ten New Zealand contingents', Richard Stowers, Hamilton, 2004, p. 172. [Call No. DT932 STO)
Provenance Details
Provenance: Material compiled by Elinor Anne Boyce (b. 1942), granddaughter of Frank Perham, in February, 2005.
Public Access Text
Item 7 (grave and headstone photograph) is available as a digitised image (TIFF only). An additional image (TIFF only) of Ronald and Loma Hamblin (nee Perham) and their two children is also available.
Subject Notes
Born at French Farm Bay, Akaroa, in 1872, Frank Perham served with the 5th New Zealand Contingent, 14 Company, C Squadron, New Zealand Mounted Rifles, in the Anglo-Boer War (SA), 1899 - 1902. After the war he spent 18 years as a herd tester with the New Zealand Co-operative Group Herd-testing Association. He died on 15 December 1959, at Thames, aged 88 years.
Last Update
07 Jul 2023
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