George Robert Bull

New Zealander who photographed troops in World War II.

  

 Boat building at 1 NZ Convalescent Depot in Santo Spirito, Italy, 17 May 1944

  

 Carrier pigeons settling in the loft after training flight, Casale, Italy, 6 May 1944

      

 H Sweet and R Semple loading carrier pigeons for training flight, Casale, Italy, 5 May 1944

   

 Group of NZ personnel serving with the RAF on one of the 

most forward Spitfire aerodromes in Italy, 27 April 1944

  

 J R A Chote makes use of a crudely constructed shower 

at 6 NZ Field Ambulance in Italy, 25 April 1944

  

 Major F Hutter with Butch, the canine mascot of 

6 NZ Field Ambulance, Italy, 25 April 1944

  

 Military truck towing a jeep on the the Inferno Track, Cassino area, Italy, 29 April 1944

  

 New Zealand soldiers on the Cassino Front, Italy, 

record messages to be broadcast home, 25 April 1944

  

 Patients exercising their legs with remedial exercises at 

1 NZ Convalescent Depot at Santo Spirito, Italy, 17 May 1944

  

Red Cross workers with mobile canteen on the wharf at Alexandria as 

repatriated POWs come ashore from the hospital ship Tairea, 3 November 1943

Campobasso

Campobasso, Italy was the scene of heavy fighting during the Second World War. In the months of October and November 1943 a battle between the German and the Canadian troops for possession of the city caused the destruction of many public buildings, including the City Hall and the archives held there. Thirty eight civilians were killed in the action, including the bishop of the diocese, Bishop Secondo Bologna, and an unknown number of people were injured in the intensive bombardment. [Wikipedia]

These scenes of Campobasso were taken after the fighting there was over, in May 1944.

 A Graham and R J Richardson watch passing nuns on steps 

leading to Campobasso castle, Italy, 3 May 1944

  

 Front line troops on leave at Campobasso, Italy, talk with local children, 3 May 1944

  

 Impression of steep and narrow streets of old Campobasso, Italy, 3 May 1944

  

 Local women washing clothes in the old Roman 

washing place in Campobasso, Italy, 3 May 1944

  

 New Zealand front line troops on leave at Campobasso, Italy, walk with locals down an avenue of pine trees each of which was planted to commemorate an Italian soldier killed in the last war. 3 May 1944

  

 New Zealand soldier on leave in Campobasso attracts local children, Italy, 3 May 1944

  

 New Zealand troops on leave meet a gharri driver 

for sightseeing in Campobasso, Italy, 3 May 1944

  

 New Zealanders look over the scenery from the 

old castle hill at Campobasso, Italy, 3 May 1944

  

Women of Campobasso, Italy, still use the old Roman 

washing place for their laundry, 3 May 1944

George Robert Bull

George Robert Bull was a New Zealander photographing their troops in the European theater during World War II.

 'Spud barbers' at work near the cookhouse at 

Hove Supply Dump in the Cassino area, Italy, 29 April 1944

  

 A group of New Zealand Provosts attached to HQ 5 NZ Infantry Brigade 

at Hove Dump in the Cassino area, Italy, 29 April 1944

  

 A typical Regimental Aid post truck in the New Zealand 

Divisional Headquarters area in Casale, Italy, 23 April 1944

  

 Air force personnel talking over performance of a night bomber 

on an aerodrome at Caserta, Italy, 13 May 1944

  

 American medium bombers on way to join Allied attack 

on the Monte Cassino front, Italy, 15 March 1944

  

 Canine mascot Spandau loosening tent guy rope at the 

NZ LOB Camp near Capua, Italy, 20 February 1944

[LOB = "Left Out of Battle"; perhaps a convalescent camp for wounded?]

  

 Grace Douglas talking to Trooper D M Urquhart and Coporal A T Dewer at Maadi Camp, Egypt, after a performance by George Formby, circa 1 October 1943

[I've tried without success to find out who this Grace Douglas is]

  

 Members of the American Field Service at Aquafondata, Italy, 6 May 1944

  

 Men of NZ Division opening first mails since cessation 

of North African hostilities, Maadi, Egypt, 10 June 1943

  

New Zealand armoured vehicles in cover beside road 

near enemy in next village of Vicalvi, Italy, 29 May 1944

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand