Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Remembrance : Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Petand Productions
Place
Date
2018
Physical Description
2 volumes (864 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780473454340
0473454343
9780473454357
0473454351
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
VOLUME ONE: 1. Foreword / Tim O'Connor -- 2. Introduction and acknowledgements -- 3. Explanatory notes and glossary of terms -- 4. Prologue: Lions at war -- 5. Samoa campaign: bloodless invasion in the Pacific (The capture of Samoa / C.G.H. Robinson) -- 6. Western Front 1914-15: the battle for survival -- 7. Gallipoli 1915: from the outermost ends of the Earth (Return to Anzac ; The August battles: behold the narrows ; The end of the adventure ; Silence) -- 8. Western Front 1916: no man's land (The great offensive ; Mid-summer: preparing for the Battle of the Somme ; Flers -- Courcelette ; Back to Armentie`res) -- 9. Western Front 1917: in Flanders fields (Messines Ridge ; 7 June, the Battle of Messines ; Preparing for the Battle of Ypres ; The Third Battle of Ypres: 31 July -- 10 November 1917 ; Passchendaele: the battle for Broodseinde, 4 October 1917; Passchendaele: the Bellevue Spur, 12 October [1917] ; Reconstruction)
VOLUME TWO: 10. Western Front 1918: from near defeat to final victory (Into the maelstrom: the German offensive, March-April 1918 ; The end of major operations on the Somme ; March to victory: the last 100 days from the Hindenburg Line to the Armistice ; Storming the Hindenburg Line ; Crossing the Selle River ; To Le Quesnoy and the final battle ; Final silence) -- 11. The cruel sea: the unarmed sailors -- 12. Africa: across the continent -- 13. Mesopotamia: the forgotten war -- 14. Sinai and Palestine: across the Holy Land -- 15. Far from home: following the Armistice -- 16. Home: deaths in New Zealand -- 17. Old girls at war: caring for casualties -- 18. Cadet colours: 2nd Battalion; Auckland Defence Rifle cadets -- 19. School War Memorial: honouring the fallen -- 20. Index of names
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Auckland Grammar School--Biography--Alumni and alumnae; World War, 1914-1918--Biography--New Zealand; Soldiers--Biography--New Zealand]
Subject Notes
School Archivist/Historian Peter Stanes '58, and past parent Andrew Connolly have researched the names of 309 Old Boys and masters who died as a result of World War I.
Collection Type
General Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
06 Dec 2024
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