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Find selected images, audio, video and more relating to New Zealand and the First World War. From the capture of German Samoa to the fatal Gallipoli landings, Passchendaele to peace celebrations.
Diary of a soldier in 1st Contingent Samoan Expeditionary Force.
Trooper Graham fought with the Samoan Advance Party embarking on 15 Aug 1914 for German occupied Samoa. Serial No. 13/2196.
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Content type: Manuscripts
Alexander Turnbull Library
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New Zealand forces hoisting the Union Jack, Courthouse, Apia, photographed on 29 August 1914 by Alfred James Tattersall
When Britain and her allies declared war on Germany in 1914, New Zealand troops landed at Matautu, Apia, on August 29, and peacef...
Content type: Images
Alexander Turnbull Library
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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.
Content type: Audio
Radio New Zealand
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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
Content type: Articles
Trove
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More than 5000 permanent NZR employees served overseas during the war, about 40% of the 1914 workforce
Content type: Articles
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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More than 5000 permanent NZR employees served overseas during the war, about 40% of the 1914 workforce
Content type: Articles
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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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...
Content type: Books
Victoria University of Wellington
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Part 1. The Central Pacific area and the Great War -- The naval war -- The capture of the German Colonies: Samoa ; German New Guinea ; Nauru ; Micronesia -- Part 2. Men from the islands: The Marshall Islands Protectorate: Nauru ; Jaluit -- Gilbert an...
Content type: Images
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira
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The HMS Pyramus was a light cruiser/old 3rd class cruiser, "P" or Pelorus-class that served in the Pacific, off the east coast of Africa, in the Persian Gulf and in the East Indies during the First World War. It took part in the operations that destr...
Content type: Images
Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
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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...
Content type: Articles
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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When, on the 3rd August, 1914, the British Empire declared war on Germany, her Dominions beyond the seas answered the call and started earnestly to help the Mother Country. In accordance with a request from the War Office, the New Zealand Government ...
Content type: Books
Victoria University of Wellington
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On August 6th, 1914, two days after the outbreak of the Great War, the following message from the Secretary of State for War in London was received by His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand:—"If your Ministers desire and feel themselves...
Content type: Books
Victoria University of Wellington
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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...
Content type: Audio
Radio New Zealand
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New Zealand National Film Unit presents Pictorial Parade No. 122 (1962) On 1 June, Samoa's Independence Day is celebrated. Samoa became independent from New Zealand on 1 January 1962, after more than a century of administration by foreign powers. Eur...
Content type: Videos
Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
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Cenotaph record for George Hume Seddon, World War I, 1914-1918, World War II, 1939-1945. Campaigns: Samoa, Gallipoli, France and Germany (TBC). Vessel: Moeraki or Monowai, Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo, Tofua, SS Tofua. Transport: HMNZT 1 | ...
Content type: Archives
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira
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This 1914-15 Star was awarded to Private Frederick John Verney for his service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I. Frederick Verney was a member of the Samoan Advance Party which sailed from Wellington in August 1914 to captu...
Content type: Images
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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This sextant (navigational instrument) was made in 1917 by German merchant marine cadet, Walter von Zatorski. At the time he was interned as a prisoner of war on Motuihe Island in the Hauraki Gulf, about eleven kilometres northeast of Auckland, New Z...
Content type: Images
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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The exhibition 'Entangled Islands - Samoa, New Zealand and the First World War' says it explores 'a little-known part of our shared history'. But 100 years on is it a shared identity?
Content type: Articles
Radio New Zealand
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Cenotaph record for Edward Puttick, World War I, 1914-1918, World War II, 1939-1945. Campaigns: France and Germany (TBC), Crete, Greece, Passchendaele, Samoa, Egypt. Vessel: Moeraki or Monowai, Maunganui, Unknown Ship. Transport: HMNZT 1 | HMNZT 2, H...
Content type: Archives
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira
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Cenotaph record for Thomas Ralph Eastwood, Regular Military Service, World War I, 1914-1918, World War II, 1939-1945. Campaigns: Samoa, Gallipoli, France and Germany (TBC), Egypt. Vessel: Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima. Transport: HMNZT 17 | HMNZT 18...
Content type: Archives
Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira
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