Guide to the Collections held by the National Army Museum (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1905 - M1906
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- National Army Museum
- Title
- Collections held by the National Army Museum (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1807 - 1981
- Collection Number
- M1905 - M1906
- Extent
- 43 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Diaries and commonplace book 1854-1855 of Francis M. Lind (b.1822). The diary describes the voyage from Calcutta to Sydney via Singapore, Adelaide and Melbourne. The commonplace book contains notes and cuttings concerning the meetings of New Zealand chiefs at Auckland following the murder of Te Kopi.
A Letter 7 August 1957 from H.D. London to J. Crisp concerning the Maori War 1865-1870.
A Diary June-November 1836 kept by Col. W. Harry Christie on a voyage from Gravesend to Sydney on the Captain Cook.
A Diary 1863 kept by Lieut. Col. R.H. Russell, describing military and social activities in New Zealand including fighting in Tartairaimaika, Wairan and Kataki.
A Sketch map showing action at Mahoetahi, New Zealand on 6 November 1860.
Papers 1880-1966 of C.C.P. Lawson concerning military forces in Australia and New Zealand and his research on uniforms.
The Journals 1841-54 of Surgeon C. Pine, describing service of the 58th Regiment in New South Wales and New Zealand.
A Diary April 1900-May 1901 of Nurse D.L. Harris of the New Zealand Contingent kept while serving as a nursing sister at the General Hospitals in Cape Town and Bloemfontein.
A Diary 1910 of General Francis Maxwell describing visit to Australia and service as Instructor of Light Horse.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the National Army Museum, London, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1984 (AJCP Reels: M1905-M1906). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London.
For more information see the National Army Museum collections online. (https://collection.nam.ac.uk/).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2283509] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Pieces that were not filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project have not been included in this Finding Aid.
Advisory Statement
Maori people are advised that this Finding Aid contains terms that reflect authors' views or those of the historical period, but which may not be considered appropriate today. While the information may not reflect current understanding, it is provided in an historical context.
Subjects
Adelaide, South Australia: visits to; Army and defence; Army officers; Australia; Australia: visits to; Bloemfontein, South Africa; Boer War, South Africa (1899–1902); British Regiment: 58th; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Captain Cook; Christie, W. Harry, Col.; Crisp, J.; Gravesend, England; Gravesend, England; Great Britain; Harris, D.L.; Kataki, New Zealand; Lawson, C.C.P.; Lind, Francis M.; London, H.D.; Mahoetahi, New Zealand; Maps, Plans and Charts: New Zealand; Maxwell, Francis, Gen.; Melbourne, Victoria: visits to; New Zealand; New Zealand Wars; Nurses; Pine, C.; Russell, R.H., Lieut. Col.; South Africa; Singapore: visits; Surgeons; Sydney, New South Wales ; Tartairaimaika, New Zealand; Te Kopi; Wairan, New Zealand; World War I
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 337, pp. 126-127.
Item Descriptions
Series 5105/70. Diaries of Francis M. Lind, 1854 - 1855
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Francis Macan Lind (1822-1879) was born in Calcutta. In 1849 he married Jane Portia Barney, the daughter of Captain George Barney, the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands and later Surveyor-General in New South Wales.
Diary of a visit to Australia and New Zealand on leave from the Indian Army (81pp), 13 February 1854 - 31 August 1855 (File 1)
The diary describes the voyage from Calcutta to Sydney via Singapore, Adelaide and Melbourne, travels in the New England district in November-December 1854 and in New Zealand in February - April 1855, and the return voyage to India via Torres Strait. It includes notes on New Zealand government, Maoris, the Maori War, and geology, and also sketches and a map.
Series 5105/73. Commonplace book of Francis M. Lind, 1855
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Francis Macan Lind (1822-1879) was born in Calcutta. In 1849 he married Jane Portia Barney, the daughter of Captain George Barney, the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands and later Surveyor-General in New South Wales.
Series 6309/124. Papers of Sgt. William Baxter, 79th Foot, 1844 - 1851
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series 6401/17. Diary of Col. W. Harry Christie, 1836
1 itemDiary from the voyage between Gravesend and Sydney, via Dublin and Cork, on the convict ship Captain Cook (typescript copy).
The diary contains detailed entries describing the layout of the ship, daily routine, relations with the crew, deaths, an attempt by convicts to seize the ship, lashings, fishing, convict songs, birds, and his first impressions of Sydney.
Biographical / Historical
Captain William Harvie Christie (1808-1873) of the 80th Regiment commanded an escort of 45 soldiers on the convict ship Captain Cook, commanded by George W. Brown, on its voyage from London to Sydney in 1836. He left the Army in 1839 and later held a number of civil posts in New South Wales.
Diary of Col. W. Harry Christie on a voyage from Gravesend to Sydney, via Dublin and Cork, on the convict ship Captain Cook (typescript copy, 44pp.), 4 June 1836 - 14 November 1836 (File)
The diary contains detailed entries describing the layout of the ship, daily routine, relations with the crew, deaths, an attempt by convicts to seize the ship, lashings, fishing, convict songs, birds, and first impressions of Sydney.
Series 6705/45. Papers of C.C.P. Lawson, c.1880-1966
3 itemsBiographical / Historical
Cecil Constant Philip Lawson (1881-1967), the son of the landscape painter Cecil Wilson, was the author of History of the uniforms of the British Army (5 vols., 1940-67).
Subseries 23. Correspondence concerning New Zealand military uniforms (12 letters), 1965 - 1966
1 itemSubseries 24. Correspondence concerning Australian military uniforms (12 letters), 1964 - 1966
1 item
Correspondence of C.C.P. Lawson concerning his research on the uniforms of military units in Australia, 1964 - 1966 (File)
Correspondence with Sir William Oliver (Canberra), Brigadier T.F.B. Macadie (Sydney), Marjorie Hancock (Sydney), D. MacCallum (Sydney), B.J. Videon (Melbourne), C.A.M. Roberts (Canberra), H.C.A. Pitt, (Launceston) and M.H. Ellis (Sydney).
Series 6807/262. Journals of Surgeon C. Pine, 1841 - 1854
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Journal of Surgeon C. Pine, August 1841 - April 1845 (File 2)
The Journal, which has very detailed entries, describes the voyage from Gravesend to Sydney, including a visit to Hobart, May-September 1844, social activities in Sydney and Parramatta, and the transfer of the 58th Regiment to New Zealand in 1845.
Journal of Surgeon C. Pine, April 1845 - June 1854 (File 3)
The journal describes service in New Zealand, his return to Sydney in 1846, the voyage from Sydney to England on the Palestine, July-December 1846 (Sir George Gipps was a fellow-passenger), and life in England, with references to friends and events in New Zealand.
Series 6906/33. Photograph album, c.1890
1 itemAlbum of photographs of Aden, Ceylon, Burma, Australia, India and Egypt.
Filmed selectively.
Series 7101/25-5. Album presented to Lord Roberts (6pp, vellum), January 1901 - February 1901
1 itemAlbum comprising manuscript copies of correspondence respecting the Mere Porourangi presented to Field Marshal Earl Roberts by the Maori Chief M.H. Tuta Nihoniho.
Includes a printed copy and a newspaper cutting concerning the presentation.
Series 7310/47. Letters of Archibald Campbell (extracts, 3pp, photocopy of typescript), 16 May 1831 - 24 May 1837
Includes:
Archibald Campbell (Chatham) to William Shaw (Dundee) about parties leaving Chatham with convicts (16 May 1831).
Archibald Campbell (Ross Bridge) to William Shaw regarding voyage to Australia; attempt by convicts to seize ship; snakes and animals in Van Diemen's Land (22 Dec 1831).
Archibald Campbell (Brisbane) to William Shaw about the impending departure for India; attacks by Indigenous Australians; rescue of survivors from crew of Stirling Castle.(24 May 1837).
Series 7611/17. Diary of Nurse D.L. Harris (81pp. and typescript copy), April 1900 - May 1901
Diary of Nurse D.L. Harris of the New Zealand Contingent kept while serving as a Nursing Sister at No. 2 General Hospital, Cape Town, and No. 8 General Hospital, near Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Series 7807/25. Papers of Brigadier-General Francis Maxwell, 1910
1 itemFilmed selectively
Biographical / Historical
Major Francis Aylmer Maxwell (1871-1917) served in the South African War, where he won a Victoria Cross in 1900. He was appointed aide-de camp to Lord Kitchener in 1901 and accompanied him to India in 1902. He was appointed military secretary to the Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy of India, in 1910.
Series 7901/76. Papers of Capt. Charles Swanston, 1830 - 1948
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Charles Swanston (1789-1850) served in the Madras establishment of the East India Company's army. He visited Van Diemen's Land while on leave in 1829 and on his return to India resigned his commission. He acquired land in Van Diemen's Land and in 1831 became director of the Derwent Bank. In 1835 he as a member of the Port Phillip Association and in 1844 began trading as a merchant at Geelong.
Series 8002/2. Memoirs of Col. J.B. Amies (photocopy of typescript), 1979
1 itemMemoirs, written in 1979, entitled 32 Indian years 1915-1947'.
Filmed selectively.
Series 8112/54. Papers of General Sir Henry James Warre, 1862 - 1873
7 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Henry James Warre (1819-1898) was commissioned in the 54th Regiment in 1837. He commanded the 57th Regiment in the Crimean War (1855) and the Second Taranaki War in New Zealand (1865).
Henry James Warre (Taranaki) to Cox, 7 November 1862 (File 50)
Settlement of debts of Ensign P.F. Clarke. (Copy).
Henry James Warre. New Zealand - its occupation and defence against native aggression. Papers read to Royal United Service Institution, 30 January 1863 (File 51)
Series 8202/70. Papers of W.M. Lummis (10pp), 1981
1 itemBiographical / Historical
William Murrell Lummis (1886-1985) enlisted in the 11th Hussars in 1904 and served on the Western Front throughout World War I. He retired from the Army in 1930 and was ordained a priest in the Anglican Church. He wrote a number of books on military history and assembled a large archive on Victoria Cross winners.
Series 8303/45. Papers of Major M. O'Farrell, 1900 - 1902
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Major M. O'Farrell (b. 1852) served in the South African War (1900-2) with the Victorian Mounted Rifles and the Rhodesian Field Force. He was placed on the retired list with the rank of major in 1908.
M. O'Farrell to his mother (Youghal, Co. Cork) and brother Edward O'Farrell (Carrick Mines Co. Dublin), 1900 - 1902 (File 1-8)
Victorian Mounted Rifles; conditions in South Africa; casualties; Lord Methuen; superiority of Australian horsemen to yeomanry recruited in English cities; impending return of regiment to Australia; appointment as Staff Officer in North West Districts.