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Gallipoli biographies

Some people who served at Gallipoli

The link under a name goes to the person's full biography

Kiwi stories - The Battle of Britain

Find out more about some of the New Zealand airmen and other personalities involved in the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940. The military ranks shown below are those held by the men at the time of the battle. Each biography links to a page with further information.

Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park

Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park

15 June 1892 - 6 February 1975

Further information - Maori units of the NZEF

This web feature was written by Steve Watters and Monty Soutar and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.

Further information - sport in New Zealand, 1940-60

 

Links

People from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume 5

These biographies can be found at the online DNZB site: www.dnzb.govt.nz

Further information - New Zealand literature

Links

For biographies of many of the writers mentioned in this feature see the online DNZB site: www.dnzb.govt.nz

Books

  • Rachel Barrowman, A popular vision: the arts and the left in New Zealand 1930–1950, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1991
  • Patrick Evans, The Penguin history of New Zealand literature, Penguin, Auckland, 1990
  • Lawrence Jones, Picking up the traces: the making of a New Zealand literary culture 1932-1945, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2003

Biographies - Parliament's people

Parliamentary biographies