This web feature was written by Bronwyn Dalley and David Green and produced by the NZHistory team. It was revised and updated by Ian McGibbon in 2016.
Links
- BBC History’s Battle of the Somme feature
- Imperial War Museums’ feature on the Somme. Read General Sir Douglas Haig’s 2nd dispatch about the Somme, 23 December 1916
- Wikipedia’s Somme feature
- Western Front, 1916 to 1917 (Te Ara)
- NZEF First World War cemeteries map - Western Europe, UK and Ireland
Books
- J.R. Byrne, New Zealand artillery in the field 1914–18, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1922
- Damien Fenton, New Zealand and the First World War, 1914–1919, Penguin, Auckland, 2013
- Andrew Macdonald, On my way to the Somme: New Zealanders and the bloody offensive of 1916, HarperCollins, Auckland, 2005
- Ian McGibbon, New Zealand’s Western Front campaign, Bateman, Auckland, 2016
- Ian McGibbon, The Western Front: a guide to New Zealand battlefields and memorials, Penguin, Auckland, 2015
- Christopher Pugsley, The ANZAC experience: New Zealand, Australia and empire in the First World War, Reed, Auckland, 2004
- H. Stewart, The New Zealand Division 1916–1919, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1921
