Mae Carson (standing in centre) with wounded New Zealand soldiers, Wellington Hospital, Christmas, 1944
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The Second World War at home
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RELATED TO NURSING WOUNDED SOLDIERS AT WELLINGTON HOSPITAL
Events
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9 June 1909
Public Trust Office building opens
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16 October 1914
Main Body of NZEF sails to war
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5 November 1913
Battle of Featherston Street
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24 May 1943
Turning point in Battle of the Atlantic
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2 February 1939
Welfare plan gets baptism of fire
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15 October 1942
NZ coastwatchers executed by the Japanese
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17 August 1942
Attack on the Nino Bixio
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7 June 1940
Fighter ace Edgar ‘Cobber’ Kain killed
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24 April 1941
Sinking of the Hellas
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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2 October 1941
NZ pilot saves Scottish village
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19 December 1941
HMS Neptune lost in Mediterranean minefield
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13 December 1939
Battle of the River Plate
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19 August 1944
Kiwi pilot's sacrifice saves French village
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27 November 1940
Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
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27 August 1904
Foundation stone for Victoria’s first building laid
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17 July 1939
Death of Paddy the Wanderer
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20 May 1941
German paratroops assault Crete
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11 November 1942
Troopship Awatea goes down fighting
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14 May 1941
NZ minesweeper sunk off Bream Head
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15 March 1944
NZ forces capture Castle Hill at Cassino
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26 April 1943
NZ ship torpedoed in Tasman
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23 February 1940
100,000 welcome home HMS Achilles crew
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9 May 1945
NZ celebrates Victory in Europe
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12 June 1942
First US troops arrive in Auckland
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22 November 1939
Freyberg takes command of NZ Expeditionary Force
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8 December 1941
New Zealand declares war on Japan
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16 June 1923
Baby-farmer Daniel Cooper hanged
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26 July 1865
Parliament moves to Wellington
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24 August 1878
Wellington steam-tram service opened
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24 September 1905
Race killing in Haining St, Wellington
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19 June 1940
Niagara sunk by German mines off Northland
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15 August 1945
The war is over! VJ Day
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16 August 1944
CORSO formed
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20 August 1940
Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
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3 September 1939
New Zealand declares war on Germany
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5 September 1939
PM declares NZ's support for Britain
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27 October 1943
NZ troops make first opposed landing since Gallipoli
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2 November 1942
NZ Division helps Allies break through at El Alamein
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25 February 1943
49 killed in Featherston POW incident
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8 November 1939
NZ Centennial Exhibition opens
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17 December 1944
Major Major, mascot of 19 Battalion, dies of sickness
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3 April 1943
'Battle of Manners Street'
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7 March 1941
NZ troops arrive in Greece
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2 May 1964
NZ's last electric tram trip
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19 March 1946
Main body of Jayforce lands in Japan
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22 May 1884
First NZ Rugby team in action
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29 March 1942
Nazi sabotage hoax
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11 May 1945
Upham presented with VC
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22 January 1840
First European settlers arrive in Wellington
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23 January 1855
Massive earthquake hits Wellington region
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16 January 1941
Women's Auxiliary Air Force founded
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26 February 1844
'Pistols at dawn': deadly duel in Wellington
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21 January 1944
NZ and Australia sign the Canberra Pact
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15 February 1978
New Zealand beats England in a cricket test for the first time
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William Wakefield
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Mary Aubert
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Howard Kippenberger
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Michael Herrick
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Wilfrid Clouston
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Alan Deere
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Isaac Featherston
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Frederick Knox
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Rene Shadbolt
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Kitty Kain
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Bernard Freyberg
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Geoffrey Cox
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Michael Joseph Savage
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Peter Fraser
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Wi Tako
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New Zealand Army Nursing Service
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Capital 150
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The Royal New Zealand Navy
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HMNZS Leander
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The Second World War at home
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Royal NZ Navy's Bird-class ships
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Battle of the River Plate
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War in Wellington
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Military mascots
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Wahine disaster
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Māori and the Second World War
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The Beatles in New Zealand
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Parliament Buildings
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Second World War - overview
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War in the Pacific
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D-Day
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The Italian Campaign
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The Merchant Navy
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The North African Campaign
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Prisoners of War
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VE and VJ days
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Wellington cafe culture
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US Forces in New Zealand
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The Battle for Crete
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