[Aotea Convalescent Hospital, Heliopolis]

1916-1917
1930s

Parent

MS 2002/144 Gardiner, Dorothy J. New Zealand Women in the Forces
PH2000/6

Gelatin silver print

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" The enclosed photos - some 70 - belonged to Matron Early. They were handed to the Auckland R.S.A. some years ago. Unfortunately in a management change many photos were lost. These were saved from destruction by Dorothy Gardiner, hence her name now stamped on the backs of many of the photos" Marjory Traill, President Returned Servicewomans Branch, Auckland R.S.A.

1-1. [Funeral service]; postcard
1-2. Some Aotea patients at lunch in the Barrage (?) gardens; postcard
1-3. Our...boats trying to "get through" while the bridge is opened - passage way is packed with boats all trying to get through first: Barrage Ship. 25.3.1916; postcard
1-4. "Aoteans" on the Nile, 23.3.1916; postcard
1-5. "Aoteans" on their way up the Nile to the Barrage, 23.3.1916; postcard
1-6. "Transport" at Aotea home ....our "rations"; postcard
1-7. "Aoteans" doing the "...." on arrival at Barrage Gardens looking for the ... .... to camp, 23/3/1916; postcard
1-8. The entrance to Barrage Gardens; postcard
1-9. Two of our pets at Aotea Xmas, 1916, Madame Michel a French lady; postcard
1-10. [Portrait of soldier]; postcard
1-11. The tennis court at Aotea Home, Heliopolis, 1917; postcard
1-12. Aotea home. Discharging patients, Ambulance waiting for them; postcard
1-13. Trying to get through the bridge in Cairo while it is open, 23.3.1916; postcard
1-14. Two of the smaller Pyramids. Some of the convalescents visiting there.; postcard
1-15. [Ruin, Egypt]; postcard
1-16. After a .... at Aotea! Consultation of Egyptian Official police officers; print
1-17. N.Z. Mounted troops passing Aotea Home; postcard
1-18. The "transport" with ... for "Aotea"; postcard
1-19. [Group photograph of nurses, servicemen and staff on truck outside Aotea Convalescent Hospital]; postcard
1-20. The ambulance waiting to take away patients who are discharged. I have under my arm a box of cigarettes. We always give the boys a packet when they are leaving. We did not know that we were being snapped. Capt Wallis standing beside me; postcard
1-21. Ambulance waiting to take men who we are discharging to their various camps. I am standing next to Capt. Wallis our first Medical Officer; postcard
1-22. Probably Matron M.A. Early; postcard
1-23. Capt. ...Masterton, Sister Booth-Carterton, M.Z. Early, first going out to visit the beggars (?) garden in front Aotea Home; postcard
1-24. [Two Cakes at Aotea Convalescent Hospital, Xmas 1917]; postcard
1-25. Aotea patients off for a pierre(?) up the Nile. They have come from Heliopolis by the ambulances & are now going onto the boat, 23.3.1916; postcard
1-26. [Portrait of two servicemen, Sgt's Remnant & Nilsen]; postcard
1-27. Another snap of "...girls" Xmas, Aotea 1916; postcard
1-28. [Aotea Convalescent Hospital]; postcard
1-29. [Aotea Convalescent Hospital]; postcard
1-30. A party of our patients visiting the Pyramids. We had special tram to take us there and back. Left home at 1 pm and returned at 7pm; postcard
1-31. [Nurses and patients seated outside, Aotea?]; postcard
1-32. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Band playing at Aotea. Patients and some of the N.Z.G.H staff ....; postcard
1-33. Motor Carry which was commandeered from the Germans by the British. It is being used her to bring gift cases to "Aotea". The kitchen boy has bottle of vinegar out whiskey; postcard
2-1. More patients departing from “Aotea”; print
2-2. All hands at Aotea firing the xmas pudding; print
2-3. A picnic at …gardens; print
2-4. [C Patten with horse]; print
2-5. Bedouin and his stead; print
2-6. [Bridge, Egypt]; print
2-7. Our party 150 leaving home by special tram for picnic a Barrage Gardens; print
2-8. Some … N.Z. boys leaving Aotea for N.Z; print
2-9. An Arab from the East of Jordon; print
2-10. Some N.Z. Sunday morning visitors at Aotea; print
2-11. Arab boys helping our gardener to water the palm … It never rains here so everything has to be watered to be kept alive; print
2-12. N.Z. wagons carting straw for …; print
2-13. Pontoon Bridge over River Jordon; print
2-14. New Zealanders playing football; print
2-15. In Karank temple; print
2-16. Colossi Thebes; print
2-17. Some of our party at Aswan and some of the officers of the garrison up there; print
2-18. Scarab beetle, Karnak; print
2-19. Some of our cripples just going out for a drive; print
2-20. Jericho & Valley of the Jordon. W.M.R. in foreground, taken the day of capture; print
2-21. Jerusalem. Monastery of … Obeid, six miles East of the city; print
2-22. The only plane seen with “Star Crescent” Negative captured at Jaffa. German Consul in… Plane crashed on shores of ….near …; print
2-23. [Snapshot of five women outside tent]; print
2-24. In Karnak temple; print
2-25. H Malden, 1.11.1917, 15 Coy; print
2-26. Here we are sitting on the steps of the “Mosque of Oma” this is a very beautiful mosque and is of great importance to the …
3. “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe”. Caldi..(?) a dentist from Auckland sitting on my right. He is wearing a red cross on his right arm; print
4. [Group portrait on steps of Aotea]; print
5-1. Aotea patients dressed up to dance “haka”. Xmas 1916; postcard
5-2. [Aotea Convalescent Hospital]; postcard
5-3. [Patients and staff at Aotea Convalescent Hospital]; postcard
5-4. [Snapshot of five women outside tent]; print
5-5. Aotea taken from an aeroplane; print
5-6. The Nile Fload [sic] (letter from New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade to the Matron and staff at Aotea Convalescent hospital]; print
5-7. [Staff and patients outside Aotea Convalescent Hospital]; postcard
5-8. M.A. Early, Capt. Venables (Med), ChCh, Sister Booth, Carterton, Capt. Prior (medical) Masterton. We are all just off to visit the Baggers in Cairo; postcard
5-9. Group of new patients on front steps “Aotea”; postcard
5-10. [Picnic]; print (stereograph)
5-11. German Consul, House Jerusalem; print
5-12. Sapper Watson – W.E.M, yours truly, Corporal W.C.M - , Wgtn; postcard
5-13. Matron M.A. Early & staff; print
5-14. [Portrait of patients and staff on steps of Aotea Convalescent Hospital]; print
6-1. Anzac Day, Auckland Museum,1930s Mrs Gould (nee Hirst) -3rd from left.; print
6-2. Nurses Parade, Auckland Domain, 1930s Mrs E.M. Gould with Governor General.; print

Ethel M. Gould (nee Hirst) was a member of the Returned Servicewomans Branch of Auckland R.S.A. During World War 1 she served as a V.A.D. at Walton-on-Thames and Brockenhurst hospitals as well as the Kia Ora Club. In 1946 she was appointed to the Auckland Hospital Board and served 20 years. Before the Second World War she served as a voluntary worker with the Territorial Association at Auckland.She died in an Auckland rest home 2 February 1982 aged 87 years.

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11 May 2023