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DOCUMENTS AND RECORDINGS RELATING DIRECTLY TO SIR KEITH PARK:

Park Papers, held by Mr I.K.W. Park, Sir Keith’s son, at his home in Lucerne Road, Auckland

Park Papers, held by New Zealand Insurance Co., Queen Street, Auckland

‘Statement of Service’ of Park in NZ Territorial & Expeditionary Forces: D.26/560/6/A, National Archives, Wellington

‘Gallipoli Memories’: tape no. 240, made in Auckland, 14 June 1974, by P.H. Liddle for his 1914-18 Archive (q.v.)

Army Book 439 (Officers’ Record of Services), Museum of Transport & Technology, Auckland

‘Experiences in the War, 1914-1918’: essay written at Staff College, Andover, 1922-3 (file AIR 10/973, Public Record Office, London)

Personal file, III M/19/P.21/1, Air Ministry Historical Branch, London

Third log book (3 July 1930-10 July 1941 plus summary of previous flying)

Radio broadcasts, Sounds Historical (Catalogue of the Sound History Recordings in the Sound Archives of Radio New Zealand, 1982), vol. ii (M-Z) (RNZSA, Timaru, NZ)

Obituary, Ministry of Defence Library, Wellington

AIR, numbered Air Ministry records, Public Record Office, London

AUCKLAND, Spitfire Mk 16 (TE456) correspondence, Auckland Institute & Museum

BALFOUR PAPERS, House of Lords Record Office, London

BEAVERBROOK PAPERS, House of Lords Record Office, London

DOUGLAS PAPERS, Imperial War Museum, London

EAKER PAPERS, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

FO, numbered Foreign Office records, Public Record Office, London

LIDDLE’S ARCHIVE, P.H. Liddle, 1914-18 Archive, Sunderland Polytechnic

Meneaud-Lissenburg, Capt. Dudley, MS. in Imperial War Museum, London: gunner with 29th Division, Gallipoli and Somme

Park, James, letter to Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence, Wellington (Dunedin, 14 Feb. 1919): D.26/560/6, National Archives, Wellington

POWER PAPERS, British Museum, London, Add. mss. 56097 (Diary)

PRETORIA, Documentation Services, Defence HQ, Pretoria

Sturdy, Hiram, MS. in Imperial War Museum, London: gunner with 29th Division, Somme

VINCENT PAPERS, RAF Museum, Hendon

WIGRAM PAPERS, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch: Item 400, Box 4 is his diary of the Canterbury Aviation Company

WO, numbered War Office records, Public Record Office, London

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