100 NZ World War One Memorials 1914-2014

My goal is to personally visit and collate information from 100 New Zealand World War One memorials throughout New Zealand to commemorate the Centenary of World War One and to remember those who paid the ultimate price.

Printed articles regarding my blog

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/4909433/Wartime-tales-of-loss-and-love


http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/175710/seeking-stories-behind-memorials


http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/9048996/Historian-on-quest-for-war-stories
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Helen Vail
Auckland, New Zealand
I am an avid family historian with a special interest in Military history. I was born in England and grew up with an awareness of WW1 and WW2. My great-grandfather (whom I knew) and his brother both fought in WW1. My great-grandmother lost two brothers in WW1. Then there was my grandfather who was in the Royal Engineers in WW2 was at Dunkirk, the D-day landings and was also in India. As a young girl I can vividly remember weekend visits to the Royal British Legion in Isleworth where my Grandad and his mates would talk about the war. It was privilege to accompany my grandfather to Dunkirk for the Dunkirk Veterans yearly return. It was a moving and enlightening experience. I began researching family history about five years ago and have been at it ever since. I live in Auckland, New Zealand and married to a New Zealander who also has a wealth of military family history. We have four children. There are war memorials throughout New Zealand nearly one in every small town and many in the main centres. This project is my personal way of commemorating those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Please follow me on my journey.
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The sites & blogs I visit

  • http://www.centenarynews.com
  • http://www.somme1916.com/
  • http://www.1914.org/
  • http://keteselwyn.peoplesnetworknz.info/soldiers_of_selwyn
  • http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz
  • http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com
  • http://passchendaelesociety.org/
  • http://ww100.govt.nz
  • http://www.nzans.org/
  • http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
  • http://blog.teara.govt.nz
  • http://www.bdmonline.dia.govt.nz
  • http://www.armymuseum.co.nz/research/
  • http://www.nzmaritimeindex.org.nz
  • http://www.wargraves.co.nz
  • http://timespanner.blogspot.com/
  • http://search.digitalnz.org
  • http://www.ww1cemeteries.com
  • http://www.nzhistory.net.nz
  • http://www.ancestry.co.uk
  • http://www.cwgc.org
  • http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/130/cenotaph-database

New Zealand WW1 Books

  • An Awfully Big Adventure - NZ WW1 veterans tell their stories - Jane Tolerton
  • Devils on Horseback - Terry Kinloch
  • Echoes of Gallipoli in the words of New Zealand's Mounted Riflemen - Terry Kinloch
  • On my way to the Somme - Andrew Macdonald
  • Dear Lizzie, A Kiwi Soldier writes from the Battlefields of World War One - Edited by Chrissie Ward
  • Maori in the Great War - James Cowan
  • Dark Journey - Glyn Harper
  • Maori in the Great War - James Cowan
  • Auckland Infantry - Peter Cooke, John H. Gray, Ken Stead
  • Letters from Gallipoli - Glyn Harper
  • Gallipoli, The New Zealand Story - Christopher Pugsley
  • The Sorrow and the Pride, New Zealand War Memorials - Chris Maclean and Jock Phillips
  • Things have been pretty lively, The Great War diary of Melve King by Neli Francis and Doug King
  • Western Front, The New Zealand Division in the First World War 1916-1918 - Matthew Wright
  • Trooper P.W. Poulton, The Great War, 1914-1918 - Wilfred Poulton
  • In Flanders Field - The WW1 Diary of Private Monty Ingram
  • Images of War WW1 - Glyn Harper
  • From the Uttermost Ends of the Earth by John H. Gray

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