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Dead horse lowered overboard
A dead horse about to be lowered overboard from the troop transport Knight Templar (HMNZT 22).
Roll of honour - Korean War
Roll of Honour for all New Zealanders killed during the Korean War, 1953-57
Burial at sea after Kolombangara
Burial-at-sea ceremony on HMNZS Leander, July 1943
Te Ārei grave
Grave of Lieutenant E.C. MacNaghten who was killed at Te Ārai in March 1861.
Mahoetahi NZ Wars memorial grave
Grave of Māori leaders killed at Mahoetahi
Disease in New Plymouth
Between May and June 1860, Richard Foreman lost his wife and three of their children to scarlet fever. Their grave lies in St Mary's Church, New Plymouth.
Thomas Millard grave
Grave of Thomas Millard who was killed at Waireka in 1860
First victim of the Taranaki War
John Edmund Sarten was the first official fatality of the Taranaki War
South Island influenza death rates
Death rates in South Island towns and counties from the influenza pandemic
North Island influenza death rates
Death rates from the 1918 influenza pandemic for towns and counties in the North Island
Nightcaps and the influenza pandemic
Nightcaps in Southland suffered one if the highest death rates in the country during the 1918 influenza pandemic – 45.9 per 1000 people died.
Grave of James K. Baxter
Jacquie Baxter and Stephanie Baxter at the unveiling of the gravestone of James K. Baxter at Jerusalem, Whanganui River, photographed in October 1973.
Aftermath - 1918 influenza pandemic
Robert Makgill Following the pandemic speculation continued over the Niagara's involvement in bringing the virus to New Zealand. The Department of Public Health was also heavily criticised. The government responded by setting up a royal commission with wide powers of investigation. It fell to Robert Makgill, acting Chief Health Officer, to implement the Commission's recommendations. One of the recommendations, which Makgill had argued for, was for a new Health Act ‘to consolidate and simplify the existing legislation'.
Response to the influenza pandemic
There were consistencies in New Zealand's response to the influenza pandemic. Many of these arose out of a circular telegram the Health Minister, George Russell, issued to all borough councils and town boards.
Uneven rates of death - 1918 influenza pandemic
No other event has killed so many New Zealanders in so short a space of time. While the First World War claimed the lives of more than 18,000 New Zealand soldiers over a four-year period, the second wave of the 1918 influenza epidemic killed almost 8600 people in less than two months.
The pandemic begins abroad
The 1918 influenza pandemic was commonly referred to as ‘the Spanish flu’ but it did not originate in Spain.
The pandemic hits New Zealand
Many people believed that the second wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic arrived in New Zealand in the form of ‘a deadly new virus’ on board the RMS Niagara.
First World War casualties by month
New Zealand casualty figures for the First World War, broken down by month.
Alex McColl's letter
Alexander McColl was one of 222 old boys of Wellington College killed during the First World War. A talented sportsman, he had been a member of the school’s First XV rugby team in 1909 and a champion rower.
Death at Tangiwai: a class affair
Survival at Tangiwai depended on which class of carriage you were travelling in.

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