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The legacy of the act which started the First World War for New Zealand is being commemorated at the Auckland Museum.

Showing officers of H M S Psyche proceeding to the courthouse at Apia to receive the reply of the German Governor.

Within a month of the declaration of war a New Zealand force had captured Western Samoa from Germany. Here the Union Jack flag is raised at Apia by New Zealand soldiers at 8 a.m. on 30 August 1914, the morning after the occupation. The capture was st...

Immediately following the Occupation it became necessary to consider the laws and judicial system. As Samoa was German territory in British military occupation it was necessary in the first place to distinguish between the members of the Expeditionar...

Leonard Leary describes attitudes of locals in German Samoa. Sidney Jones describes living conditions for troops. HS Hyde describes the radio station. The story of New Zealand's second war casualty. Extracts from contemporary newspapers.

In this British First World War poster New Zealand is mentioned in relation to Samoa which was ‘Captured by the Expeditionary Force furnished by the Dominion of New Zealand’. The British government had requested that New Zealand send an expediti...

100 years ago today, the SS Talune steamed into Apia from Auckland with a disease that unleashed devastation on Samoa: the Spanish flu. It went on to kill a fifth of Samoa's population in two months.

Orders for the attack, under the hand of the Rear Admiral, were issued as follows:— It is possible that German cruisers "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau," and light cruiser "Nurnberg" may be in the vicinity of Samoa. It is my intention to arrive at Api...

A telegram received on August 4th, 1914, by our Governor, Lord Liverpool, from the Imperial Secretary of State, intimated that the occupation of the German Wireless Station at Samoa was an urgent Imperial Service. It was decided by the New Zealand Go...

Showing some of the seventeen Germans brought to Auckland by the S S Navua on October 13, being escorted by an armed guard to the railway station, where they entrained to Wellington.

A war souvenir This German military issue belt buckle was claimed as a war souvenir by New Zealander Sergeant William Thomas Richards. Souveniring and petty pilfering was a widespread pasttime of soldiers. The central disc is stamped with the legend ...

This is an example of a commercial postcard published in New Zealand referencing New Zealand's occupation of the German colony of Samoa on 29 August 1914. This postcard titled ’German War Flag captured at Samoa by New Zealand Expeditionary Force�...

Anzac Day ceremonies have been held across the Pacific this morning, as the region commemorates its role in war.

"Fellow subjects: War has broken out with Germany." The blow had fallen and the worst fears were realised! What one short month before was undreamed of and unthinkable in our happy and prosperous country had actually come to pass and we were at death...

Between 1914 and 1916 the New Zealand government acquired more than 10,000 horses to equip the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. They served in German Samoa, Gallipoli, the Middle East and on the Western Front. Of those that survived the war, only fo...

Cenotaph record for Allen Mortimer Kemp, World War I, 1914-1918. Campaigns: Samoa, Western Front. Vessel: Moeraki or Monowai, Maunganui. Transport: HMNZT 1 | HMNZT 2, HMNZT 24. Embarkation Unit: 3rd (Auckland) Regiment, Auckland Infantry Battalion. P...

Ena Ryan describes the rush of young men to recruit and the young girls knitting for the troops. Tom Seddon MP describes the debates in the House and Hansard recording donations, Leonard Leary describes attitudes of locals in German Samoa. Sidney Joh...

A competition to design a Pacific Island memorial to feature in New Zealand's Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington is underway.

No role for New Zealand had been decided beforehand, but on the night of 6 August 1914 a note arrived from London that it would be “a great and urgent Imperial service” if New Zealand forces seized Samoa. This was approved next day, and four days...