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Ormond Burton was a Methodist minister and prominent pacifist who developed anti-war views after serving in the First World War.

Ormond Burton was born and raised in Auckland. Central to his young life was his religious education, through which he became a strong public speaker and debater, as well as an unwavering Christian. After secondary school he attended Auckland Training College, and by 1913 he was sole-charge teaching at Waimana Sawmill School in the Bay of Plenty.

Andrew Russell was a New Zealand military leader in the First World War, known for his meticulous planning.

Born in Napier, Andrew Russell was educated in England, first at Harrow School and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, as was family tradition. After serving for five years in India and Burma, Russell left the 1st Border Regiment to return to New Zealand and farm sheep with his uncle, William Russell.

Photograph of Major-General Andrew Hamilton Russell at New Zealand Divisional Headquarters, Bus-les-Artois, France, on 21 May 1918
Gallipoli extract from the School Journal, September 1915
Edward Percy Cox's diary offers a precious first hand account of life during the Gallipoli Campaign in the First World War.
Audio and images relating to the George Malone memorial gates in Stratford, Taranaki
The memorial to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at Takrena Bay on the south coast of Wellington.
Winston Churchill in 1912, the year after he became First Lord of the Admiralty
Memorial oak tree in the Park of Remembrance in central Christchurch
New Zealand soldiers standing beneath a red cross flag, Gallipoli, Turkey in 1915
A camouflaged Ottoman Turk artillery position at Gallipoli, circa 1915-1916.
German made version of the Ottoman War Medal, often mistakenly referred to as the 'Gallipoli Star' by Anzac and British troops.

Charles Begg was New Zealand's most decorated member of the Medical Corps during the First World War. Born in Dunedin in September 1879, he attended Kaikorai School and Otago Boys' High School before studying medicine at the University of Otago Medical School in 1898. He graduated with distinction from the University of Edinburgh in 1903. He became an MD in 1905 and the following year returned to New Zealand, where he went into general practice in Wellington. In December 1909 he married Lillian Treadwell. The couple had two sons.

Bone handled knife and case, made by Sapper John (Jack) Hoey Moore during the First World War.
Victorian and World War One orders, decorations and medals of Lieutenant-General Alexander Godley on display at the National Army Museum in Waiouru.
A mounted pine cone brought back from Chunuk Bair by Meg Craig (nee Malone), the granddaughter of Lieutenant Colonel William Malone.
Shrapnel damaged bugle belonging to Bugler George Bissett, Wellington Infantry Battalion, who was killed in action, 27 April 1915.
New Zealand national blue ensign flag flown at Quinns Post, Gallipoli in 1915.

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