We list here some general sources for people wishing to read more about New Zealand's First World War experience.
A comprehensive bibliography of books, articles and theses relating to New Zealand’s role in the First World War has been compiled by Tim Shoebridge and can be downloaded here (pdf document).
Websites
- The website of the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection has online copies of the original four-volume Official history of New Zealand’s effort in the Great War and most of the NZEF unit histories published in the 1920s and 1930s:
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-WH1.html - First World War.govt.nz - an NZHistory subsite built to commemorate the centenary of the First World War
- Cenotaph database - includes service record information on all those who served with New Zealand forces during the First World War
- First World War - overview entry on Te Ara
- First World War diaries and soldiers' writings held at Alexander Turnbull Library. Site run by Bob Cameron
Print publications
- Paul Baker, King and country call: New Zealanders, conscription and the Great War, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1988
- John Crawford (ed.), The Devil’s own war: the First World War diary of Brigadier-General Herbert Hart, 2nd edn, Exisle Publishing, Auckland, 2009
- John Crawford and Ian McGibbon (eds), New Zealand’s Great War: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War, Exisle Publishing, Auckland, 2007
- Steven Eldred-Grigg, The great wrong war: New Zealand society in WW1, Random House, Auckland, 2010
- Damien Fenton, with Caroline Lord, Gavin McLean and Tim Shoebridge, New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919, Penguin Books, Auckland, 2013
- Andrew Francis, ‘To be truly British we must be anti-German’: New Zealand, enemy aliens and the Great War experiences, 1914-1919, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2012
- Glyn Harper, Dark journey: three key New Zealand battles of the Western Front, HarperCollins, Auckland, 2007
- Glyn Harper (ed.), Letters from Gallipoli: New Zealand soldiers write home, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2011
- Terry Kinloch, The Devil’s horsemen: in the words of the Anzacs in the Middle East 1916–19, Exisle, Auckland, 2007
- Steven Loveridge, Call to arms: New Zealand society and commitment to the Great War, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2014
- Andrew Macdonald, On my way to the Somme: New Zealanders and the bloody offensive of 1916, HarperCollins, Auckland, 2005
- Andrew Macdonald, Passchendaele: the anatomy of a tragedy, HarperCollins, Auckland, 2013
- Ian McGibbon (ed.), The Oxford companion to New Zealand military history, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2000
- Gavin McLean, The white ships: New Zealand's First World War hospital ships, New Zealand Ship & Marine Society, Wellington, 2013
- Christopher Pugsley, Gallipoli: the New Zealand story, Penguin, Auckland, reprinted 2008
- Christopher Pugsley, On the fringe of hell: New Zealanders and military discipline in the First World War, Hodder and Stoughton, Auckland, 1991
- Christopher Pugsley, The ANZAC experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War, Reed, Auckland, 2004
- Wayne Stack and Barry O’Sullivan, The New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War I, Men-at-Arms No. 473, Osprey Publishing, Oxford (UK), 2012
- Richard Stowers, Bloody Gallipoli: the New Zealanders’ story, David Bateman, Auckland, 2005
- Jane Tolerton, An awfully big adventure: New Zealand World War One veterans tell their stories, Penguin Books, Auckland, 2013
- Jane Tolerton, Ettie: a life of Ettie Rout, Penguin, Auckland, 1992
- Jock Vennell, The forgotten general: New Zealand’s World War I commander, Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, Allen & Unwin, Auckland, 2011
- Howard Weddell, Soldiers from the Pacific: the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One, Defence of New Zealand Study Group, Wellington, 2015
- Matthew Wright, Shattered glory: the New Zealand experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, Penguin, Auckland, 2010
- Matthew Wright, Western Front: the New Zealand Division in the First World War, 1916-18, Reed Books, Auckland, 2005
Downloadable archival sources (pdfs)
- The Great War, 1914-1918. New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Roll of Honour, Wellington, 1924 (111 mbs)
- List of New Zealand troopships, 1914–19 (17mbs)
- Report on conscription, 1916–18 (38mbs) - Director of Recruiting D. Cossgrove wrote this assessment of recruiting under conscription in March 1919. It includes a detailed overview of how the scheme operated, recruiting circulars explaining the day-to-day workings of the system, and some useful statistics.
- John Studholme, Record of personal services during the War of officers, nurses, and first-class warrant officers; and other facts relating to the NZEF, Wellington, 1928 (128 mbs)
- War, 1914–1918. New Zealand Expeditionary Force: its provision and maintenance, Wellington, 1919 (20mbs)
A comprehensive bibliography of books, articles and theses relating to New Zealand’s role in the First World War has been compiled by Tim Shoebridge and can be downloaded here (pdf document).
