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Herbert George Bertram Erickstad - Papers relating to selected wartime and post-war experiences

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  • Kupu whakaahua

    Contains photocopied material. Item 1 -- Handwritten account titled "Experiences I had during my term with the Imperial War Graves Commission". (1 leaf)

    Item 2 -- Handwritten account titled "My 5 Months with the Imperial War Grave Commission". (2 copies, 3 leaves)

    Item 3 -- Typescript (photocopy) titled "The great hurry-up on the 'mad mile'". (1 leaf)

    Item 4 -- Typescript (photocopy) titled "The Disasterous [sic] German Air-Raid on Bari, 2nd December 1943". (3 leaves; page 2 duplicated)

    Item 5 -- Typescript (photocopy) titled "My two nights below Monte Cassino". (2 leaves; page 2 duplicated)

    Item 6 -- Typescript (photocopy) titled "Does Pte. Murphy and his donkey Duffy still haunt the Gallipoli Peninsular?". (4 leaves)

    Item 7 -- Typescript (photocopy) titled "[How] starving Italian civilians fared behind enemy lines in Cassino in June 1943". (1 leaf)

    Item 8 -- Typescript (photocopy) titled "The House of Shaftos or Call Him Tiny". (1 leaf)

    Item 9 -- Newspaper article (photocopy) taken from the 'New Zealand Herald' (26 November 1983, section 2, page 2) titled 'Churchill hushed up wartime gas disaster' describing the German bombing raid on Bari harbour that resulted in the release of mustard gas.

    Item 10 -- Newspaper article by H.G.B. Erickstad that appeared in the 'New Zealand Herald' (26 May 1984) titled 'Italian Greeting Really Was a Matter of Time'.

    Item 11 -- Newspaper article by H.G.B. Erickstad that appeared in the 'New Zealand Herald' (2 November 1987) titled 'Freyberg Put Troops First'.

    Item 12 -- Typescript (photocopy) titled 'The Air Raid Over Bari'. (3 leaves)

    Item 13 -- Letter to the editor of the 'New Zealand Herald' titled 'The War Graves Commission', dated 15 August 1993. (1 leaf)

  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    3517 (Presto content ID)

    MS-2004-61 (Reference Number)

    43277 (DBTextworks system ID)

    2004/61 (Registration number)

  • Wāhanga

    Manuscripts

Mātātuhi me ngā tuhinga

Rārangi

  • Momo Taonga

    manuscript

  • Ingoa/Taitara
    Herbert George Bertram Erickstad - Papers relating to selected wartime and post-war experiences
  • Kaiwaihanga Matua

     Herbert Erickstad

  • Rā
    2004
  • Whakaahuatanga ā-Kiko

    1 folder (13 items)

  • Taumata o te Mauhanga o Nāianei
    Parent
  • Ngā Tuhipoka Ahanoa Hāngai
    MS-2002-153
  • Kuputuhi e Wātea Tūmatanui ana

    Duplicates of Items 7 and 8 are also held at MS-2002-153.

  • 82621 Herbert George Bertram Erickstad served as a Medical Orderly in A Company, 5th New Zealand Field Ambulance, 2NZEF, during the Second World War. In 1982 he published a book titled "The Prophecies of Nostradamus in Historical Order" (Vantage Press Inc., New York).
  • Rārangi Mihi
    Donated by Mr Herbert George Bertram Erickstad in 2004.
  • Whakahounga o Mua
    04 Nov 2022
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