Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "These are my memoirs from the time I left Canada until I returned. I left Canada and went to New Zealand in 1937 and returned in 1945. While in New Zealand the war broke out and I joined the New Zealand army and went to Egypt and was eventually captured at El Alemein in Egypt. After spending fourteen months in different prison camps in Italy I eventually escaped and joined the Italian underground and worked with them for nearly nineteen months."--Foreword, p.3.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "These are my memoirs from the time I left Canada until I returned. I left Canada and went to New Zealand in 1937 and returned in 1945. While in New Zealand the war broke out…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "The unique conditions of the desert campaign created a special bond between all those who took part - reflected by the fact that all the countries which engaged in the battle will participate in the 50th anniversary commemoration at El Alamein."--foreword.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The unique conditions of the desert campaign created a special bond between all those who took part - reflected by the fact that all the countries which engaged in the battle…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: Recto: "We will remember them. 1945-1995 50th Commemorative Anniversary. 7th, 8th, 9th of May 1995". Illustrations of service men and women, the New Zealand flag, and a poppy, border the text.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Recto: "We will remember them. 1945-1995 50th Commemorative Anniversary. 7th, 8th, 9th of May 1995". Illustrations of service men and women, the New Zealand flag, and a poppy,…

Description: Recto: "We will remember them. 1945-1995 50th Commemorative Anniversary. 7th, 8th, 9th of May 1995". Illustrations of service men and women, the New Zealand flag, and a poppy, border the text.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Recto: "We will remember them. 1945-1995 50th Commemorative Anniversary. 7th, 8th, 9th of May 1995". Illustrations of service men and women, the New Zealand flag, and a poppy,…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "With insufficient arms, ammunition and rations and without air cover, New Zealand soldiers were asked to repel the superbly equipped German airborne invasion of the island of Crete. Had it not been for the ineptitude and bungling of their senior officers, they might have succeeded! Author Peter Winter found himself in the frontline on Crete where battles take on a different perspective from the official versions."--back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "With insufficient arms, ammunition and rations and without air cover, New Zealand soldiers were asked to repel the superbly equipped German airborne invasion of the island of…

Description: "'Dad never spoke of his time at the war. I wish I had persuaded him to talk. But it's too late now - he's passed on and that part of our family history has gone with him.'

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "'Dad never spoke of his time at the war. I wish I had persuaded him to talk. But it's too late now - he's passed on and that part of our family history has gone with him.'

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE