Sound clips

William Surgenor captured on Chunuk Bair

Cyril Bassett wins VC on Chunuk Bair

Remembering the outbreak of the First World War

Ena Ryan remembers the outbreak of the First World War

Remembering the 1913 strike

Alan Cull describes being a dentist on Korea

Lindsay Glassey describes shelling from off shore

Laurie Valentine describes the battle of Kapyong

Bill Keiha describes the food in Korea

Spitfire pilot describes attacking enemy transport

Naval officer Eric Krull describes D-Day

John Morris and the French Resistance

A Navy Commanding Officer describes D-Day

'Join together' song, 1974 Commonwealth Games

The search for Anne Perry

Childhood memories of the First World War

A teenage girl's First World War experience

'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'

'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'

'I oppose this, I wish to go'

'He was really downhearted'

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

'I thought of my brothers'

Poem: The Transvaal Contingent

BBC news report on Battle of River Plate

Bob Harvey describes welcome home for Achilles

On board Achilles during Battle of the River Plate

Movement of Achilles prior to Battle of the River Plate

Remembering dead bodies on HMS Achilles

Erebus memorial service in Wellington

Erebus memorial service at Scott Base

Keith Woodford describes Erebus crash scene

Bob Thomson describes scene of Erebus crash

Bob Thomson describes wreckage on Erebus

Morrie Davis announces finding wreckage of Flight TE901

Major Gumble announces no contact with Erebus flight

Craig Saxon announces Erebus flight lost

Ed Hillary describes weight loss on Antarctica

Dogs versus tractors on Antarctica

Ed Hillary describes geological surveys

Ed Hillary, Vivian Fuchs and George Lowe discuss Shackleton

Broadcast of first flight to Antarctica

Ngaio Marsh funeral address

Pencarrow Lighthouse documentary

Peter Snell and Murray Halberg win Olympic gold

Alison Quentin-Baxter Dominion symposium speech

'Sticky Beak the kiwi' song

PM Holland declares state of emergency, 1951