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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Popular Posts

  • Jack and Len Godsiff - Portage Pass Memorial
    On the memorial at Portage Pass are the names of two brothers, John Carrol Heathrington Godsiff (known as Jack) and George Leonard Godsiff ...
  • Havelock Volunteers
     Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 187, 11 August 1914, Page 3 While researching the names on a memorial, a standard routine I do ...
  • Turnwald Family - Puhoi Memorial
    Thanks to Jenny at the Puhoi Historical Society I have received information on the Turnwald Family's contribution to World War One. Th...
  • 2nd Lieutenant Cyril Cutten Carncross - Eltham Memorial - Killed in Action 12 October 1917
      Press, Volume LIII, Issue 16041, 25 October 1917, Page 8 Second Lieutenant Cyril Cutten Carncross was the son of the Hon. Walter ...
  • Costar Brothers - Papakura Memorial
      http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/3222.detail?Ordinal=3&c_surname_search=costar&c_warconflict_search=%22world...
  • Second Lieutenant Arnold Lorie - Pokeno Memorial
    Second Lieutenant Lorie embarked with the Samoan Advance Party on 15 August 1914 he would have been maybe 19 or 20 years old.  After return...
  • Memorial to Wesley Neal Spragg - Kaitarakihi Park near Huia, West Auckland
      The memorial to Wesley Neal Spragg was erected by his family to honour their son and those who lost their lives in WW1.   The memorial ...
  • Palmerston North Memorial - 12 May 2011
    Palmerston North Memorial was unveiled on the 7 February 1926 by the then Prime Minister Gordon Coates.  Coates had himself served in WW1 ...

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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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