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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.

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

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...

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.

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 ...

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

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�...

"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...

Pacific islands monthly : PIM. Vol. 54, No. 8 ( Aug. 1, 1983) JOSEPH THEROUX concludes a two-part series on the life and times of WILHELM HEINRICH SOLF, governor of pre-World War I German Samoa. harsh and arbitrary and continued

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...

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...

The Native officials were reinstated in their former positions, and the German Government officials, having given their parole, were allowed for the time being to remain in office. Transports Nos. 1 and 2 sailed for New Zealand and Suva respectively,...

But hard upon this news came information by radiogram, through the Governor-General of New Zealand, that enemy ships were again believed to be in the vicinity, this time the "Dresden" and "Prinz Eitel Friedrich," the latter believed to have 1500 Germ...