Story: First World War

More links and websites

• Anzac Day resources

  This section of the Returned and Services’ Association (RSA) site has information on the origins and history of Anzac Day.

• Measuring the ANZACs

  This crowd-sourcing project is transcribing First World War military personnel files held by Archives New Zealand.

• New Zealand and the First World War

  This section of the NZ History website features an in-depth series of essays on New Zealand in the First World War.

• New Zealand in the First World War, 1914–1918

  The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre provides access to the campaign histories and regimental histories from the First World War.

More suggestions and sources

• Baker, Paul. King and country call: New Zealanders, conscription and the Great War. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1988.
• Crawford, John, and Ian McGibbon, eds. New Zealand’s Great War: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War. Auckland: Exisle, 2007.
• Kinloch, Terry. Devils on horses: in the words of the Anzacs in the Middle East, 1916–19. Auckland: Exisle, 2007.
• McGibbon, Ian. The path to Gallipoli: defending New Zealand, 1840–1915. Wellington: GP Books, 1991.
• Pugsley, Christopher. The ANZAC experience: New Zealand, Australia and empire in the First World War. Auckland: Reed, 2004.
• Pugsley, Christopher. Gallipoli: the New Zealand story. Auckland: Raupo, 2008.