Original manuscripts and published handbook titled New Zealand Military Forces Handbook for Use of Junior Non-commissioned Officers of the Senior Cadets, With Handwritten Instructions for Use of Lewis Gun, and Handwritten Notes for Drill.

Inside the manual are the signatures: Corporal I.L. Holmes, 1937, and Sergeant I.L. Holmes, 1938.

Photocopies of official correspondence, memoranda and other papers regarding brawls between U.S. and N.Z. servicemen in Wellington, 1943 and 1945, and regarding U.S. servicemen in N.Z. detention barracks, 1945. Brawls were the 'Battle of Manners Street' 1943 and Cuba Street 1945.