This web feature was written by Steve Watters and Ian McGibbon and produced by the NZHistory team.
Links
- 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War
- First World War (Te Ara)
- First World War cemeteries map - Western Europe, UK and Ireland - lists CWGC cemeteries where New Zealanders killed in the First World War are buried or memorialised
- First World War cemeteries map - Mediterranean, Gallipoli and the Middle East - lists CWGC cemeteries where New Zealanders killed in the First World War are buried or memorialised
- See also New Zealand military history links
Publications
- J. Crawford & I. McGibbon (eds), New Zealand's great war: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War, Exisle Publishing, Auckland, 2007
- Damien Fenton, New Zealand and the First World War, 1914–1919, Penguin, Auckland, 2013
- Ian McGibbon, The path to Gallipoli: defending New Zealand 1840–1915, GP Books, Wellington, 1991
First World War histories
These are all now available online on the NZ Electronic Text Centre website. See also a related article, 'Something of them is here recorded: official history in New Zealand'.
- S.S. Allen, 2/Auckland, 1918, being a partial record of the war service in France of the 2/Auckland Regiment during the Great War, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1920
- Norman Annabell (compiler), Official history of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919, Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, Wanganui, 1927
- W.S. Austin, The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own), I.T. Watkins, Wellington, 1924
- O.E. Burton, The Auckland Regiment, being an active account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and the Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1922
- O.E. Burton, The silent division: New Zealanders at the Front, 1914–1919, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1935
- A.E. Byrne, Official history of the Otago Regiment NZEF in the Great War 1914–1918, J. Wilkie & Co., Dunedin, 1921
- J.R. Byrne, New Zealand artillery in the field, 1914–1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1922
- A.D. Carbery, The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War, 1914–1918 (based on official documents), Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1924
- James Cowan, The Maoris in the Great War, a history of the New Zealand Native Contingent and Pioneer Battalion, Gallipoli 1915, France and Flanders 1916–1918, Maori Regimental Committee, Auckland, 1926
- W.H. Cunningham, The Wellington Regiment N.Z.E.F. 1914–1919, Ferguson & Osborn, Wellington, 1928
- H.T.B. Drew (ed.), The war effort of New Zealand, a popular history of (a) minor campaigns in which New Zealanders took part; (b) services not fully dealt with in the campaign volumes; (c) the work at the bases, Whitcombe & Tombs, Wellington, 1923
- Roy Finlayson Ellis, By wires to victory; describing the work of the New Zealand Divisional Signal Company in 1914–1918 War, 1 NZEF Divisional Signal Company War History Committee, Auckland, 1968
- David Ferguson, The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F., 1914–1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1921
- J.H. Luxford, With the machine gunners on France and Palestine: the official history of the New Zealand Machine Gun Corps in the Great War 1914–1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1923
- A. Briscoe Moore, The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine, the story of New Zealand's crusaders, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1920
- W.E.L. Napier, With the Trench Mortars in France, Alpe Bros. and Co., Auckland, 1923
- J.C. Neill (ed.), The New Zealand Tunnelling Company 1915–1919, Whitcombe and Tombs, Auckland, 1922
- C.G. Nicol, The story of two campaigns, official war history of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, 1914–1919, Wilson & Horton, Auckland, 1921
- C. Guy Powles, The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine, Whitcombe & Tombs, Wellington, 1922
- C. Guy Powles (ed.), The history of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914–1919, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1928
- Regimental history of New Zealand Cyclist Corps in the Great War 1914–1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1922
- John Robertson, With the Cameliers in Palestine, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Dunedin, 1938
- Stephen John Smith, The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914–1915: an account based on official records of the seizure and occupation by New Zealand of the German Islands of Western Samoa, Ferguson & Osborn, Wellington, 1924
- H. Stewart, New Zealand Division, 1916–1919: a popular history based on official records, Whitcombe & Tombs, Wellington, 1921
- John Studholme (compiler), New Zealand Expeditionary Force record of personal services during the war of officers, nurses and first-class warrant officers; and other facts relating to the N.Z.E.F, Government Printer, Wellington, 1928
- Fred Waite, The New Zealanders at Gallipoli, Whitcombe & Tombs, Wellington, 1919
- A.H. Wilkie, Official war history of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914–1919, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1924