Spectrum at War
Interviews and reminiscences from New Zealanders who were there
Group portrait of unidentified World War I soldiers and their dog mascot, photographed between 1914-1918 by Frank Denton or Mark Lampe, probably in Wanganui. Tesla Studios :Negatives of Wanganui and district taken by Alfred Martin, Frank Denton and Mark Lampe (Tesla Studios). Ref: 1/1-016608-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Collection items
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Leslie Quartermain: an Antarctic explorer's letters home from WWI
25 Apr 1981Leslie B Quartermain is remembered largely for his connections with the Antarctic and his books on the Southern Continent. But there's an earlier, more personal body of his literature - his letters… Audio
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Wind In The Wires (Part 1)
2 May 1981Nigel Piper recalls the early days of flying, before and during World War One - the days of the Royal Flying Corps and the infant Royal Air Force. Audio
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Wind In The Wires (Part 2)
9 May 1981Nigel Piper recalls the early days of flying, before and during World War One - the days of the Royal Flying Corps and the infant Royal Air Force. Audio
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Career By The Kings Shilling (Part 1): They Taught Us How To Kill Men But Not Lice
22 Oct 1981In April 1918 George Lee was shipped from England to the Western Front in Belgium and the realities of life behind the sandbags. In conversation with Jack Perkins he gives a vividly detailed… Audio
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Career By The Kings Shilling (Part 2): Sandbags And Singing Wire
4 Nov 1981In April 1918 George Lee was shipped from England to the Western Front in Belgium and the realities of life behind the sandbags. In conversation with Jack Perkins he gives a vividly detailed… Audio
Four World War I New Zealand soldiers in a front line trench pose beneath the sign 'The Cannibals Paradise Supply Den Beware' painted on corrugated iron in response to German propaganda that New Zealanders ate their captured prisoners. Photograph taken Gommecourt Wood 10 August 1918 by Henry Armytage Sanders. Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association :New Zealand official negatives, World War 1914-1918. Ref: 1/2-013460-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Group photograph of New Zealand World War I soldiers on board a ship. In the centre of the backrow, a soldier holds a lemon squeezer hat in front of his chest. Photograph taken between 1914 and 1918, by an unidentified photographer. Kidman, Ian :Photographs of World War 1914-1918. Ref: 1/4-027590-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Related links
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Farthest Flung, Holding Tight
New Zealand, Empire and the Threat of War 1913-1914. -
War Reports
A week-by-week audio picture of how the war changed the lives of a generation. -
New Zealand's invasion of Samoa 1914
A look at the first New Zealand military action in the First World War.
