The Order of the Pour le Mérite, known informally as 'The Blue Max', was Germany's highest First World War military honour. Fighter aces such as Oswald Boelcke, Max Immelmann, Manfred von Richthofen (the 'Red Baron'), and Ernst Udet were its most famous recipients.
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The War in the air
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Events
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31 May 1916
HMS New Zealand fights in the Battle of Jutland
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11 April 1916
Arrival of the NZ Division in France
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4 September 2010
Fox Glacier plane crash
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21 August 1915
New Zealand mounteds attack Hill 60
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16 October 1914
Main Body of NZEF sails to war
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5 August 1914
New Zealand enters the First World War
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28 June 1914
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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8 February 1915
Ambush in Turkey leads to death of New Zealand seaman
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24 September 1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident
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25 August 1916
First New Zealand soldier executed
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25 August 1920
First flight across Cook Strait
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9 May 1915
Kiwi Wimbledon champ killed in battle
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2 April 1915
Anzac soldiers riot in Cairo's Wazzir brothel district
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9 February 1911
First controlled powered flight in New Zealand
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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28 November 2008
Air New Zealand A320 crashes in France
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23 October 1948
Mt Ruapehu air crash kills 13
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19 May 1987
Attempted hijacking in Fiji foiled
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31 January 1921
NZ’s first regular airmail service begins
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10 January 1928
Pioneer aviators vanish over the Tasman
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7 June 1917
The Battle of Messines
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29 August 1914
NZ force captures German Samoa
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7 October 1917
German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in NZ
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3 July 1963
DC-3 crashes in Kaimai Range
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13 July 1916
Walsh becomes first NZer to obtain pilot's certificate
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27 July 1963
Pioneer aviator George Bolt dies
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11 September 1928
First trans-Tasman flight
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16 October 1936
Jean Batten conquers UK-NZ route
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20 November 1937
Parachuting Santa crashes in Auckland Domain
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26 June 1918
Wimmera sunk by German mine
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8 August 1915
Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
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8 February 1931
First fatalities on a scheduled air service in NZ
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16 January 1941
Women's Auxiliary Air Force founded
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1 April 1965
TEAL becomes Air New Zealand
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7 January 1931
Completion of first solo trans-Tasman flight
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1 December 1933
First flight from North Cape to Bluff
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31 March 1967
Fred Ladd flies under Auckland Harbour Bridge
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28 November 1979
257 killed in Mt Erebus disaster
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15 December 1915
The evacuation of Gallipoli begins
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2 June 1917
NZ steamer captured by the Wolf
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2 January 1938
First official airmail flight to San Francisco
Biographies
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Alfred de Bathe Brandon
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Clive Collett
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Euan Dickson
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Malcolm McGregor
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William Rhodes-Moorhouse
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Keith Caldwell
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William Burn
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Robert Logan
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Ettie Rout
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Archibald Baxter
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Alexander Godley
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James Allen
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Ormond Burton
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Andrew Hamilton Russell
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Leo White
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George Butler
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Nugent Welch
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Michael Herrick
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Wilfrid Clouston
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Alan Deere
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William Massey
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Samuel Frickleton
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Jean Batten
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Charles Begg
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Bernard Freyberg
Articles
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Rolls of honour and obituaries
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New Zealand Army Nursing Service
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NZ Railways at war
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The Public Service at war - overview
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First World War by the numbers
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First World War farewells
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The Post and Telegraph Department at war
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Hospital ships
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The War in the air
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NZ's First World War horses
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The Salonika campaign
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Schools and the First World War
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Anzac Day in the Pacific
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First World War art
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The Royal New Zealand Navy
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Featherston camp
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Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline
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Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline
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Pacific aftermath
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Merchant marine
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Researching New Zealand soldiers
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Māori units of the NZEF
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Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline
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British Empire
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Allies
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Central Powers
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Palestine campaign
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Sinai campaign
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The Imperial Camel Corps
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Capture of German Samoa
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Armistice Day
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Military mascots
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The Arras tunnels
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Passchendaele: fighting for Belgium
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Supporting the war effort
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The Gallipoli campaign
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Conscientious objection and dissent
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Māori and the First World War
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Battle of the Somme
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First World War - overview
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First World War memorials
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New Zealand and Le Quesnoy
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