Images and media

Ōtāhuhu railway workshops war memorial

Queuing for rationed goods

Devonport Primary School air raid shelters

Members of the EPS practise first aid

Recruitment poster, 1940

Ruapuna Church war memorial

2NZEF soldier returns home on furlough

Nursing wounded soldiers at Wellington Hospital

Censored letter from a conscientious objector

Novelty newspaper in 1944

Manufacturing NZ Bren Gun carriers

Women truck drivers

Containers falling off the Rena

'Country Lads' leaving for war

Reclaiming Bastion Point - roadside stories

The eruption of Mt Tarawera - roadside stories

Seddon and Ward, premier towns - roadside stories

Timaru's heroes - roadside stories

Ōamaru, whitestone city - roadside stories

Papawai, the Māori capital - roadside stories

Nevile Lodge

A world record at Cooks Gardens - roadside stories

Richard Gross

William Trethewey

'All those lovely young men'

'I was surprised that there was this side to him'

'I thought of all the terrible six years they'd been'

'He got a letter out to us somehow'

'The fences were doubled'

The Winton baby farmer - roadside stories

'We had a proper little committee'

'Nobody consulted us'

'I just couldn't get out of the bath fast enough'

'It got a lot of sewing done to it during the Cassino time'

'You wondered whether you'd go bush'

'At school we had air raid trenches'

'You got much less than the men'

'She was not allowed to take her Maori name'

'The manpower are on to me'

HMNZS Gambia

'I oppose this, I wish to go'

'He was really downhearted'

'It seemed terrible to be going away and killing them'

Searching for German Raider by Colin Wynn

Battle of Kolombangara, 1943

Stephen Roskill

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914

Kingsdown war memorial

Torpedo maintenance

Springbrook war memorial

Blockhouse Bay school war memorial

Torpedo damage to HMNZS Leander

HMNZS Leander in the Pacific

Thomas Bracken

James Chapman-Taylor

Oswald Cheesman

Burial at sea after Kolombangara

Ernst Plischke

Edmund Anscombe

Maud Basham