Lookup Requests - Wellington Archives

[Michaela Sortehaug]

Hi

I was wondering if there might be a kind soul on here that would be able to photograph these records for me (no hurry).  I would be very grateful indeed.

General inwards correspondence [record group]
Nominator: Hugh Strathern
Nominates: Wife and family; also Mrs Bunton [Mary Tyrrell Strathern, John Tyrrell Strathern, William Martin McGill Strathern, Agnes Connely Strathern, Robert Tyrrell Strathern, Alexander Strathern, Elizabeth Strathern, David Strathern, Mary Strathern]
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24715246

New Zealand Expeditionary Force Headquarters (NZEF HQ) War Records Section [2] [record group]
* Prisoner of War - Statement made by 23632 Private R.T. [Robert Tyrell] Strathern, 2nd Otago Battalion, 6 December 1918
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428185
* Statement made by 23632 Private R.T. Strathern, 2nd Battalion Otago Regiment, prisoner of war taken at Armentieres, France, 14 November 1916 - Statement taken 6 December 1918
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428612

And these Coroners Inquests, case files [record group]:
* Coroners Inquests - Case Files - Otago - Strathern, Gordon Malcolm Raymond
   https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=23865833
* Coroners Inquests Unnecessary - Case Files - Strathern, Robert Tyrrell
   https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=23899949
* Coroners inquests - Case files - Canterbury - Strathern, David Gibson
   https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=23846410

Wellington probate files [third sequence]
* BROWN William Leslie Ronald - checked and not digitised yet on Family Search
   https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=23065554

Many thanks and kind regards,

Michaela

[Janette]

Hi Michaela

Have you looked on PapersPast for some answers ?

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=q&q=&e=-------10--1----0--

A request for 7 look ups is a pretty big ask as we can only order 5 files at a time and often have to wait for them to be brought out to be viewed and then they need to be gone through and the appropriate pages photographed.
You may be able to get what you need for some from PapersPast and save the looker upperer some time at archives,

Cheers Janette

[minniehaha]

The death of Gordon Malcolm Raymond STRATHERN........

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP19401228.2.82&srpos=10&e=-------10--1----2+strathern--


Minniehaha.

[Infobunny]

Hi Michaela,

Don't often find this sort of thing - a photo of Robert Strathern actually as a prisoner of war in Dulman POW camp (he's the one sitting in the centre of the photo).  Taken about September 1917.

Found it here: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P03236.253.  All public domain stuff.  (Hope it is attached!)

Comes with the following annotation (cut down version):
Outdoor portrait of four allied Prisoners of War (POW) at a POW camp at Dulmen, Germany. Soldiers are gathered around a table covered with a tablecloth on which is placed a vase of flowers and four glasses of beer. The three soldiers on the right are holding cigars. Identified from left to right: 2729 Private (Pte) Oscar Keenan, 53rd Battalion, from Bengara, NSW (standing); Pte R. Strathern, 2nd Otago Battalion, New Zealand (sitting); 4512 Pte Percy Arthur Haslam, 54th Battalion, from Newcastle, NSW (standing); and 4151 Pte John Joseph Costello, 54th Battalion, from Sydney, NSW (sitting).  One of a series of over 400 photographs sent by Australian POWs in German camps to Miss M. E. Chomley, Secretary, Prisoners Department, Australian-British Red Cross Society, London. Original album housed in AWM Research Centre at RC00864, Album image number 304.

Cheers,
Bunny

[Infobunny]

And here is another one!  This time Robert Strathern is the one standing on the left.

From the same site: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P03236.177/

Extract of notation reads: Studio portrait of five Allied Prisoners of War (POW). Identified standing at back on left is R Strathern, 2nd Otago Battalion, New Zealand and on right is J. Atkinson, 17th West Yorkshire Regiment, England. Identified sitting at front, from left to right, is J. Young, Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR), 4512 Private (Pte) Percy Arthur Haslam, 54th Battalion, from Newcastle, NSW and F.A. Burt, 16th Canadian Scottish, Canada.

There are websites that provide more information on Dulmen camp, and that it is likely that Robert was captured at any of the battles of the Somme in 1916.  Potentially Fromelles...

Cheers,
Bunny

[spades]

Hi Michaela,

I have images of some of the files you requested.

Please send me a PM with your email address.

Spades

[spades]

Images of the following files sent:

General inwards correspondence [record group]
Nominator: Hugh Strathern
Nominates: Wife and family; also Mrs Bunton [Mary Tyrrell Strathern, John Tyrrell Strathern, William Martin McGill Strathern, Agnes Connely Strathern, Robert Tyrrell Strathern, Alexander Strathern, Elizabeth Strathern, David Strathern, Mary Strathern]
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24715246

* Statement made by 23632 Private R.T. Strathern, 2nd Battalion Otago Regiment, prisoner of war taken at Armentieres, France, 14 November 1916 - Statement taken 6 December 1918
https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=24428612

Coroners Inquests - Case Files - Otago - Strathern, Gordon Malcolm Raymond
   https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=23865833

* Coroners Inquests Unnecessary - Case Files - Strathern, Robert Tyrrell
   https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=23899949

Awaiting acknowledgement of receipt.

Spades

[Michaela Sortehaug]

Hi Spades,

I just want to say a MASSIVE thank you for all the pages you have taken images of and scanned to me.  I know that would have taken a bit of time to do but I am so grateful with not living in Wellington to be able to access this information.  It is all interesting reading and will help with further research.

Regards,
Michaela


Hi @ Infobunny,

Not sure why I never saw a notification come through of your posts and has been quite a while since I was last on this website.  I just wanted to say a MASSIVE thank you to you as well for posting up the links and 2 photos of my ancestor, Robert Tyrrell Strathern as I don't have any other photos of him.  Is nice to have his POW statement which Spades e-mailed me the other day but now I can put a name to his words.  He escaped twice (the second time he was so close to a border - approx. 20 km - which I am picking meant freedom).  Yes, like you say this is quite a rare find which I am so grateful for.

Regards,
Michaela


Hi Janette,

Again, sorry for the delay in replying to your message to my post.  I will remember that for the future about how one can only order 5 records at a time.  I think I was just so excited to see if I could find someone to help me with my request.

Regards,
Michaela


Hi minniehaha,

Again, sorry for the delay in replying to your message to my post.  Thanks for the link to the write up of Gordon’s death.   

Regards,
Michaela