The Second World War at home

Conscientious Objectors at Hautu Detention Camp, 1943

Censored letter from a conscientious objector

Nursing wounded soldiers at Wellington Hospital

2NZEF soldier returns home on furlough

Recruitment poster, 1940

Members of the EPS practise first aid

Devonport Primary School air raid shelters

Queuing for rationed goods

Home - civilian NZers remember the Second World War

'Country Lads' leaving for war

Women truck drivers

Manufacturing NZ Bren Gun carriers

Novelty newspaper in 1944

Peace in Europe

Land girls, overalls and killing knife

Pahīatua's 'Little Poland' - roadside stories

'I thought of my brothers'

'It seemed terrible to be going away and killing them'

'He was really downhearted'

'I oppose this, I wish to go'

'The manpower are on to me'

'She was not allowed to take her Maori name'

'You got much less than the men'

'At school we had air raid trenches'

'You wondered whether you'd go bush'

'It got a lot of sewing done to it during the Cassino time'

'I just couldn't get out of the bath fast enough'

'Nobody consulted us'

'We had a proper little committee'

'The fences were doubled'

'He got a letter out to us somehow'

'I thought of all the terrible six years they'd been'

'I was surprised that there was this side to him'

'All those lovely young men'