Reading the casualty list

On 27 July 1916 the Auckland Weekly News had on its cover a photograph captioned ‘The Casualty List’.

The publication of death notices in local newspapers – often with heavy black lines around the entry and a banner reading ‘For the Empire’s Cause’ – informed the wider community of a family’s loss. Almost every newspaper in New Zealand also published the Roll of Honour, widening the community of mourning to the nation.