Content Description The autobiography of George Turner titled 'Autobiography of a settler in early Christchurch who fought in the Crimean War'. A 1940s(?) transcription of the original manuscript that was written in 1904. The original seems to have been lost. The autobiography of George Turner titled Autobiography of a settler in early Christchurch who fought in the Crimean War. Includes photocopies and typescripts of the autobiography as well as genealogical tables of the Turner family and...

Scope and Contents The papers of Guy Bernard Cleaver Bliss include typescript, manuscript and printed papers, and photographs, chiefly of Canterbury matters relating to military, church and local history.There are two copies of the reminiscences of Lt. Col. Alfred Henry W. Evenden, photographs of him in the Rangiora High School Cadets (ca. 1905), as a soldier (First World War), and a photograph of his father, T.A. Evenden, a lieutenant in the Kumara Volunteer Cadets, 1886. There is a copy of the...