M2799
National Library of Australia
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Created: 2018
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Series 1. Digest of Service (9p.)
Filmed selectively.
Record of the activities of the Regiment, from embarkation in Rangoon for Auckland, where they arrived 8 January 1864, to embarkation for England, 23 October 1863 - 9 March 1866 (File)
Series 2. Captain Hugo Shelley Light
Letters (16p.), 1864 (File 1)
Miscellaneous pages from several letters 23 February, 28 May, 26 June, 28 July, 27 August 1864 from Hairimi, Tauranga and Auckland...
Sketchbook (6p.) (File 2)
Note on sending the draft to New Zealand under Colonel Greer; sketches of native boat, fishing; relaxing by lake.
Series 3. Major Charles Ughtred Shuttleworth
Diary (212p.), 1864 (File 1)
Daily entries; voyage on Light Brigade; Tauranga harbour, 21 January; weather; building redoubt; market people bringing supplies; friendly natives bringing potatoes; military duties; hostilities; cricket matches; accounts.
Diary (300p.), 1865 (File 2)
Daily entries; weather; calling on Governor; regatta; cricket; riding; military duties; accounts.
Series 4. H.G. Robley
The museum holds several water colour paintings by H.G.Robley depicting scenes at Gate Pa, Tauranga, native chiefs etc...
Ink sketch of Gate Pa, 29 April 1864 (File)
