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Firing a trench mortar during the First World War
Preparing to go over the top during the Battle of the Somme
A trench, as depicted in a British training manual
Alexander John Godley
Military Service Act 1916
HMS New Zealand, 1913
HMS New Zealand in Wellington
First World War loans
First World War census and conscription
Military cadets marching on HMS New Zealand, 1913
School cadets, 1900
Auckland Regimental pipe band in France, 1918
Marist Brothers School cadets, c1910
Capture of German Samoa, 1914
Reading the casualty list
Leonard Hart at Trentham Camp, 1915
Film: trench life in the First World War
Film: troops departing New Zealand, 1914 and 1915
Stretcher-bearers on the Western Front
