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Lesslie Collection

documentary heritage
  • Other Id

    66104 (Presto content ID)

    PH-1996-14 (Reference Number)

    ACQ-1996-10 (Acquisition number)

    1998 (DBTextworks system ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Lesslie Collection
  • Primary Maker

     unknown (Photographer)

  • Date
    1914-1918
  • Level of Current Record
    Parent
  • Media
  • Technique
  • Subject Category
  • Content
    1. Edmee Plunkett (later Langley) taking N.Z. and Aus on hospital outing, Cairo (in mourning for her father - hence black), 1917/ 1918
    2. Bedouins
    3. After effects of a high explosive bomb dropped by Turkish aeroplane
    4. [Woman and two children - Bedouins?]
    5. N.Z.M.R. camp at Masta Sidea?
    6. N.Z.M.R. formed up before the march on Rafa
    7. Wadi at Shellal
    8. Bomb raid, Tel El Jani (?)
    9. N.Z.M.R. Brigade at Tel El Fara - Major General Chaytor and Brig. Gen. Meldrum
    10. Concrete water trough in orange Sheikh Noosan
    11. N.Z.M.R. camp at Masta gidea (?) - Sinai
    12. Pt Said
    13. N.Z'ers amongst those on a outing from convalescent home
    14. NZ convalescent home "Aotea" at Heliopolis, Cairo. Feb 16.1916
    15. Miss Mac (McIntosh) taking convalescent outing [in front of Sphinx and Pyramid]
    16. [Convalescent outing to Pyramids]
    17. [Convalescent outing to Pyramids]
    18. [Convalescent outing to Pyramids]
    19. [Convalescent outing to Pyramids, posing on camels in front of New Zealand Expeditionary Force trucks]
    20. N.Z. Convalescent home 'Aotea' at Heliopolis. 6.2.16. Cairo
    21. [Group portrait of nurses and troops]
    22. [Five men at tennis court, Cairo?] May 1916
    23. Miss Mac. (McIntosh) taking convalescent outing - They took a special train out to the Pyramids and the Comforts fund helped with food
  • Copyright
    Collection contains multiple items - rights applied at item level
  • Last Update
    11 May 2023

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