RELATED TO TUAPA WAR MEMORIAL, NIUE
Events
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31 May 1916
HMS New Zealand fights in the Battle of Jutland
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25 April 1916
The first Anzac Day
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11 April 1916
Arrival of the NZ Division in France
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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 May 1943
Turning point in Battle of the Atlantic
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25 April 1963
NZ medics start work in South Vietnam
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15 October 1942
NZ coastwatchers executed by the Japanese
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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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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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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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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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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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7 June 1917
The Battle of Messines
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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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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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26 June 1918
Wimmera sunk by German mine
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20 August 1940
Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
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8 August 1915
Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
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3 September 1939
New Zealand declares war on Germany
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29 August 1914
NZ force captures German Samoa
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5 September 1939
PM declares NZ's support for Britain
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7 October 1917
German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in NZ
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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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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 July 1965
NZ artillery opens fire in Vietnam
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18 August 1971
Deadline for Vietnam pull-out announced
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19 October 1966
New Zealand’s day with LBJ
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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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16 January 1941
Women's Auxiliary Air Force founded
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21 January 1944
NZ and Australia sign the Canberra Pact
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25 February 1943
49 killed in Featherston POW incident
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17 December 1944
Major Major, mascot of 19 Battalion, dies of sickness
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7 March 1941
NZ troops arrive in Greece
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19 March 1946
Main body of Jayforce lands in Japan
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15 January 1970
Anti-Vietnam War protesters greet US Vice President
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3 April 1943
'Battle of Manners Street'
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12 May 1971
Anti-Vietnam War protests in Queen Street, Auckland
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29 March 1942
Nazi sabotage hoax
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11 May 1945
Upham presented with VC
Biographies
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Alfred de Bathe Brandon
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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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Howard Kippenberger
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George Butler
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Nugent Welch
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Richard Gross
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William Trethewey
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Michael Herrick
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Wilfrid Clouston
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Alan Deere
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Keith Holyoake
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William Massey
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Samuel Frickleton
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Charles Begg
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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
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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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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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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Battle of the River Plate
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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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Vietnam War tribute 08
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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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Māori and the Second World War
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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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Second World War - overview
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War in the Pacific
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First World War - overview
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First World War memorials
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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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South African War memorials
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Vietnam War
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D-Day
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New Zealand and Le Quesnoy
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US Forces in New Zealand
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The Battle for Crete
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Memorials register
Community contributions