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Women's Army Auxilary Corps, plotting a table.
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Ref: DA-10696. Image has no known copyright restrictions.
Over the past five years, the Online Cenotaph has completed many research and data projects often using items from Auckland Museum's collections. The popular searches provides access to many of these research projects and datasets. We will continue to add new datasets over time. We are happy to help If you have a research project or a suggestion for a popular search, please contact us.
Listing of World War II personnel who recorded messages as part of the National Broadcasting Service Mobile Units.
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There have been nearly 40 service people identified in Online Cenotaph as being of Chinese descent but there are sure to be many more. If you have further information to contribute, please contact us.
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List of those New Zealand personnel of Indian descent.
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Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital was on the outskirts of Marton and operated from 1950 until 1999. Some veterans who suffered from ‘shell shock’ had been admitted for treatment to Lake Alice. The Marton RSA would like to hear from anyone who may have had a relative or knows of a serviceman who was at Lake Alice Hospital.
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Despite large loss of land and disregard from the Crown in the 19th century, 50 years later Ngāti Raukawa men were enlisting in large numbers to fight in World War One, and later World War Two. This article outlines the research conducted by Te Kenehi Teira and Heeni Collins as part of a report commissioned by Crown Forestry Rental Trust, Wellington (Wai 2200 Porirua ki Manawatu Inquiry).
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The taking of Le Quesnoy was the last major action of the New Zealand Division. This list includes those who are buried at Le Quesnoy Communal Cemetery and Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension in addition to others identified as being involved in the conflict. This list was partially compiled by Richard Stowers and Herb Farrant, and added to by Christopher Pugsley.
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The 3NZ Division were garrisoned throughout the Pacific during World War II including in Fiji, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia and Tonga. The creation of N Force was considered as a strategically important location for communicating throughout the Pacific.
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The 3NZ Division were garrisoned throughout the Pacific during World War II including in Fiji, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia and Tonga.
The creation of T Force was to support the training of the Tongan Defence Force.
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In 1941, and anticipating the entry of the Japanese Empire into the Second World War, the New Zealand Military Forces raised a formation initially known as B Force, later to be designated the 8th Brigade, for garrison duty in Fiji.
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Operation Grapple was a series of four nuclear weapons tests, carried out Malden Island and Kiritimati Island in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Kiribati) in 1957-1958. Research from Arthur Venus and Gerry Wright has identified the five hundred New Zealanders who were serving with the Royal New Zealand Navy were witnesses to Operation Grapple.
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