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	New Zealand Expeditionary Force -&--&- Dedicated to the Memory of the NZEF in the Great War 1914-1918
		New Zealand troops were the first to take any German territory with the bloodless capture of German Samoa in August 1914.
		New Zealanders are most remembered for their service at Gallipoli between April and December 1915, but the vast majority of New Zealand casualties were sustained on the battlefields of the Western Front.
		The New Zealand soldier rapidly gained a high reputation for courage and endeavour and by the end of the war the New Zealand Division on the Western Front was regarded as one of the best fighting Divisions in the Allied armies.
	www.freewebs.com /1stnzef/index.htm (629 words)

	New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The NZEF was commanded throughout the war by General Alexander Godley, a British officer who in 1910, on the recommendation of Lord Kitchener, had been appointed as the commander of the New Zealand Defence Forces.
		When the Gallipoli campaign began, the New Zealand contingent was insufficient to complete a division of their own so was combined with the Australian 4th Infantry Brigade to form the New Zealand and Australian Division, General Godley commanding.
		The New Zealand Expeditionary Force was finally disbanded on December 31, 1921.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_Expeditionary_Force (429 words)

	New Zealand - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		New Zealand's economic anxieties were further increased in 1935 when the British government decided to tax imported mutton and lamb for the benefit of British producers.
		The New Zealand Division served, with a distinction noted by allies and opponents alike, in Greece, North Africa, and Italy, and New Zealand detachments with the British air force and navy served in the Pacific.
		New Zealand's traditional two-party party political system was challenged in December 1991 by the formation of the Alliance Party, comprising the Democratic Party, the New Labour Party (NLP), the Green Party, and the (mainly Maori) New Zealand Self-Government Party.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /New+Zealand (3999 words)

	Military history of New Zealand during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politically, New Zealand had been a vocal opponent of European fascism and the national sentiment for a strong show of force was generally supported.
		New Zealand provided personnel for service in the RAF and Royal Navy and its own division, the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF).
		Most of the New Zealand and other allied troops evacuated from Greece were transported to Crete where Freyberg was appointed commander of all allied forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_history_of_New_Zealand_during_World_War_II (739 words)

	NZEF. New Zealand Expeditionary Force
		In Egypt, February 1916, the Expeditionary Force was reorganised as a Division.
		The NZEF was disbanded on 31 December 1921.
		The New Zealand Division was formed in Egypt in March 1916 from the New Zealand and Australian Division.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-nz/nzef.htm (1467 words)

	New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Definition, explanation
		The New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) was the title of the military expedition sent from New Zealand to fight for Britain in World War I.
		The NZEF was commanded throughout the war by General Alexander Godley, a British officer who in 1910, on the recommendation of Lord Kitchener, had been appointed as the commander of the New Zealand Defence Forces.
		When the Gallipoli campaign began, the New Zealand contingent was insufficient to complete a division of their own so was combined with the Australian 4th Infantry Brigade to form the New Zealand and Australian Division, General Godley commanding.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/ne/new_zealand_expeditionary_force.php (425 words)

	New Zealand Army 1939-41 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		New Zealand's contribution to the Commonwealth war effort began with the decision taken on 6 September 1939 to mobilize a Special Force of three battalions from each of the three military districts.
		In New Zealand, the 14th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, NZA (41st, 42nd, 43rd Light AA Batteries) was raised in 1941 and moved to Egypt with the 5th Reinforcements on 7 April 1941.
		The New Zealand Territorial Force was not idle during the period from 3 September 1939 until Japan's entry into the war on 7 December 1941.
	home.adelphia.net /~dryan67/orders/nz.html (1225 words)

	Encyclopedia: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The original formation (the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), which served at Gallipoli, was commanded by General William Birdwood and comprised the Australian 1st Division and the New Zealand and Australian Division.
		The three Australian and one New Zealand mounted brigades were employed as infantry with ANZAC during the Gallipoli campaign.
		Australian and New Zealand Divisions were involved in a number of engagements during the Battle of the Somme (1916) while components of British corps but it was only during the Battle of Pozieres, 23rd July 1916, that an Anzac formation participated as a whole.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Australian-and-New-Zealand-Army-Corps (2354 words)

	NZ in the First World War - Ministry for Culture and Heritage
		New Zealand was involved in the First World War by the King's declaration of war.
		In June 1917 the New Zealand Division further distinguished itself in the storming of Messines ridge.
		New Zealand had no air force of her own during the First World War but several hundred New Zealanders served with the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force.
	www.mch.govt.nz /heritage/nzww1.html (611 words)

	New Zealand - First World War in the News
		Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett - 1915; Gallipoli: On 7 August 1915 at Chunuk Bair Ridge, Gallipoli, after the New Zealand Brigade had established itself on the ridge, Corporal Bassett, in daylight and under fire, succeeded in laying a telephone line from the old position to the new one on Chunuk Bair.
		The trenches where the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) fought still riddle the hillsides, in places so close to the Turkish lines that the soldiers could lob hand grenades back and forth 3 times.
		Ludolph West, who died on August 25, 1914, is to be formally recognised as the first New Zealand Expeditionary Force casualty of World War I, in spite of never leaving the country.
	firstworldwar.cloudworth.com /new-zealand.php (1000 words)

	Walton-on-Thames.org- Mount Felix- Arthur White, Gunner, New Zealand Expeditionary Force WW1
		Arthur was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England 25 August 1888, son of Charles Taylor and Annie Sarah (LEEDHAM) WHITE.
		After the war, whilst still a member of Expeditionary Force, Arthur married Ethel BAXTER at St Werburghs Spondon, Derbyshire 24 February 1919.
		Arthur was formally discharged from the Expeditionary Forces 29 September 1919 having served 3 years 93 days active service, and was awarded the British War Medal, and the Victory Medal.
	www.walton-on-thames.org /mountfelix/ArthurWhite (525 words)

	Chunuk Bair Memorial
		IN HONOUR OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
		The New Zealand Infantry reached Rhododendron Spur, where they were joined by the 10th Gurkha Rifles, from further North, and reinforced by the 8th Welch, the 7th Gloucesters, the Auckland Mounted Rifles, and the Maori Contingent.
		The infrequent cases in which New Zealand soldiers fell in the last four months of 1915 and could not be buried in a cemetery find their place on this Memorial.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /chunuk_bair_memorial.htm (428 words)

	Freyberg VC GCMG KCB KBE DSO & 3 Bars K St J, MiD
		Although the forces available were deficient in many areas, he enjoyed a significant advantage in the form of very detailed information of German intentions, provided through ULTRA intelligence.
		In particular, when the key airfield at Maleme was lost because of the poor judgement and lethargy of some senior officers within the New Zealand Division, Freyberg failed to respond vigorously enough, with the result that the loss of the island became inevitable.
		In the climactic battle of El Alamein in October–November 1942, the New Zealand Division played a vital part in the Allies’ final breakthrough; for his leadership of it Freyberg was immediately made a KCB.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-vc/freyberg-vc.htm (3268 words)

	New Zealand Division biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The New Zealand Division was a World War I division formed in Egypt in January 1916 following the evacuation of Gallipoli.
		By the end 1915, New Zealand's contingent had expanded such that they could now field a complete division of their own.
		The New Zealand Division was originally attached to I Anzac Corps and departed for France in April, 1916.
	new-zealand-division.biography.ms (201 words)

	Used Book Central Search / merchant: New Zealand Military Books
		Covers the role of the New Zealand Division in the Italian campaign from late 1943 to March 1944 when the Division was withdrawn from the battle for Cassino.
		The particular difficulties encountered in each area the New Zealand Division served are well covered - from the mountains of Greece, through the defence and evacuation of Crete, the mobile war of the desert, to the final victory in Italy where Signals had to ford river after river to re-established communications.
		This volume is the first of the official campaign histories of the New Zealand forces in the war and is essentail to understanding the state of the Division as it readied itself for the defence of Crete.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,sid,10649,jump,60.html (5971 words)

	New Zealand Genealogy Resource List
		A return of the freeholders of New Zealand giving the names, addresses, and occupations of owners of land, together with the area and value in counties and the value in boroughs and town districts, October 1882.
		Polaschek, Alan J. The complete New Zealand Distinguished Conduct Medal: being an account of the New Zealand recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal from the earliest times of the South African war to the present time, together with brief biographical notes and detalis of their entitlement to other medals, orders and decorations.
		Names and particulars of all Australian, New Zealand and British soldiers who died of wounds received on Gallipoli 1915 in hospitals on the island of Lemnos and who are buried in war cemeterys [sic] on the island of Lemnos, Aegean Sea.
	www.liswa.wa.gov.au /nz2.html (429 words)

	ANZAC DAY: KIWIS IN MAADI 1939-46, April 27, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		New camps were allocated, this time further inland, at the base of the desert slopes of Wadi Digla and Tel al-Maadi generally referred to as Digla.
		Two New Zealand brigades were assigned to the desert south of Matrouh to cover the Eighth Army while it established its main defense positions in al-Alamein.
		In appreciation of the hospitality the New Zealand troops had received from the residents of Maadi, Brigadier Jack Mitchell, Commanding Officer, Maadi, commissioned New Zealand officer and architect F.I. Anderson for the job of building an obelisk in Maadi's Fouad al-Awal (afterwards al-Nahda) Square.
	www.egy.com /landmarks/maadi/96-04-27.shtml (4605 words)

	Favorites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ANZAC was formed with volunteers following the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914.
		New Zealand and Australia contributed many men to the great trench battles of Europe at Belgium and France etc. Especially prominent were the killing fields of Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele, and the Hindenburg Line.
		By wars' end casualties among New Zealand ANZACs was unbelievably high with more than 18,000 killed and 41,000 wounded - that is a 53 percent plus casualty rate.
	www.anzac.net.nz /anzac.html (389 words)

	MATUA - The New Zealand Maritime Record - NZNMM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		From New Zealand the Banana Boats quickly found some cabin space for tourists and so a number of vessels started to call at various islands.
		1942 January 2 A Section of the B Force Expansion of the 2nd New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force (85 Officers and 1668 Ordinary Ranks) embarked on the Rangatira and the Matua for Lautoka, and on the Monowai for Suva.
		New Zealand Expeditionary Force, comprising 13 officers and 12 ordinary ranks embarked at Auckland for Tonga via Suva.
	www.nzmaritime.co.nz /matua.htm (1149 words)

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		Unlike the New Zealand Expeditionary forces, which gave condoms to their soldiers, the United States decided to give American soldiers after-the-fact, and largely ineffective, chemical prophylaxis.
		The passage compares the prevention techniques and disease outcomes of American and New Zealand soldiers in World War I, noting that American soldiers contracted venereal disease in far greater numbers than soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary force, who had condoms.
		The passage compares the prevention techniques and diseases of American and New Zealand soldiers in World War I. It notes that American soldiers contracted venereal disease in far greater numbers than soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary force, who had condoms.
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		Unlike the New Zealand Expeditionary forces, which gave condoms to their soldiers, the United States decided to give American soldiers after-the-fact, and largely ineffective, chemical prophylaxis.
		The passage compares the prevention techniques and disease outcomes of American and New Zealand soldiers in World War I, noting that American soldiers contracted venereal disease in far greater numbers than soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary force, who had condoms.
		The passage comparesthe prevention techniques and diseases of American and New Zealand soldiers in World War I. It notes that American soldiers contracted venereal disease in far greater numbers than soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary force, who had condoms.
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	Leslie Comrie
		He was born in Pukekohe (south of Auckland), New Zealand, in 1893.
		During World War I he saw action in France with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and lost a leg in fighting.
		Biography at Royal Society of New Zealand (from [1] and Garry Tee's University of Auckland Comrie Lecture in 2000)
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leslie_comrie.html (321 words)

	Used Book Central Search / merchant: New Zealand Military Books
		Covers the formation of the Main Body of the 1st NZ Expeditionary Force (1 NZEF), its departure, the training in Egypt, and the Gallipoli campaign (the start of the ANZAC tradition).
		The set covers events and details of the various roles played by New Zealanders in the War that are not covered in detail in the offiical campaign histories.
		Most of the New Zealand men who fought as the Long Range Desert Group came from the ranks of the Div Cav, and some detail of their exploits is also given.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,sid,10649.html (1794 words)

	The Anzacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		ANZAC is the acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the formation created in December 1914 by grouping the Australian Imperial Force and New Zealand Expeditionary Force stationed in Egypt under the command of Lieutenant-General William Birdwood.
		Initially the term 'Australasian Corps' had been mooted for this force, but there was a reluctance among both Australians and New Zealanders to lose their separate identities completely.
		The small cove where Australian and New Zealand troops landed was quickly designated 'Anzac', and the word was soon being used to describe all Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fought on the peninsula, and eventually any Australian or New Zealand soldier.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz /Gallery/Anzac/ANZACes.htm (374 words)

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