Further information | NZ History

This web feature was written by Steve Watters and Ian McGibbon and produced by the NZ History team.

Publications

J. Crawford & I. McGibbon (eds), New Zealand's great war: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War, Exisle Publishing, Auckland, 2007
Damien Fenton, New Zealand and the First World War, 1914–1919, Penguin, Auckland, 2013
Ian McGibbon, The path to Gallipoli: defending New Zealand 1840–1915, GP Books, Wellington, 1991

First World War histories

These are all now available online on the NZ Electronic Text Centre website. See also a related article, 'Something of them is here recorded: official history in New Zealand'.

S.S. Allen, 2/Auckland, 1918, being a partial record of the war service in France of the 2/Auckland Regiment during the Great War, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1920
Norman Annabell (compiler), Official history of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919, Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, Wanganui, 1927
W.S. Austin, The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own), I.T. Watkins, Wellington, 1924
O.E. Burton, The Auckland Regiment, being an active account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and the Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1922
O.E. Burton, The silent division: New Zealanders at the Front, 1914–1919, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1935
A.E. Byrne, Official history of the Otago Regiment NZEF in the Great War 1914–1918, J. Wilkie & Co., Dunedin, 1921
J.R. Byrne, New Zealand artillery in the field, 1914–1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1922
A.D. Carbery, The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War, 1914–1918 (based on official documents), Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1924
James Cowan, The Maoris in the Great War, a history of the New Zealand Native Contingent and Pioneer Battalion, Gallipoli 1915, France and Flanders 1916–1918, Maori Regimental Committee, Auckland, 1926
W.H. Cunningham, The Wellington Regiment N.Z.E.F. 1914–1919, Ferguson & Osborn, Wellington, 1928
H.T.B. Drew (ed.), The war effort of New Zealand, a popular history of (a) minor campaigns in which New Zealanders took part; (b) services not fully dealt with in the campaign volumes; (c) the work at the bases, Whitcombe & Tombs, Wellington, 1923
Roy Finlayson Ellis, By wires to victory; describing the work of the New Zealand Divisional Signal Company in 1914–1918 War, 1 NZEF Divisional Signal Company War History Committee, Auckland, 1968
David Ferguson, The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F., 1914–1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1921
J.H. Luxford, With the machine gunners on France and Palestine: the official history of the New Zealand Machine Gun Corps in the Great War 1914–1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1923
A. Briscoe Moore, The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine, the story of New Zealand's crusaders, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1920
W.E.L. Napier, With the Trench Mortars in France, Alpe Bros. and Co., Auckland, 1923
J.C. Neill (ed.), The New Zealand Tunnelling Company 1915–1919, Whitcombe and Tombs, Auckland, 1922
C.G. Nicol, The story of two campaigns, official war history of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, 1914–1919, Wilson & Horton, Auckland, 1921
C. Guy Powles, The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine, Whitcombe & Tombs, Wellington, 1922
C. Guy Powles (ed.), The history of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914–1919, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1928
Regimental history of New Zealand Cyclist Corps in the Great War 1914–1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1922
John Robertson, With the Cameliers in Palestine, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Dunedin, 1938
Stephen John Smith, The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914–1915: an account based on official records of the seizure and occupation by New Zealand of the German Islands of Western Samoa, Ferguson & Osborn, Wellington, 1924
H. Stewart, New Zealand Division, 1916–1919: a popular history based on official records, Whitcombe & Tombs, Wellington, 1921
John Studholme (compiler), New Zealand Expeditionary Force record of personal services during the war of officers, nurses and first-class warrant officers; and other facts relating to the N.Z.E.F, Government Printer, Wellington, 1928
Fred Waite, The New Zealanders at Gallipoli, Whitcombe & Tombs, Wellington, 1919
A.H. Wilkie, Official war history of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914–1919, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1924