Photo: russellstreet (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Carved wooden Maori cenotaph at Te Koura, in memory of those who died in influenza epidemic. Photographed in 1920 by Albert Percy Godber. Ref: APG-0786-1/2-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
Te Kuiti Temporary Native Hospital, 1918 Photo: Dawn Marsh (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ)
Greytown Influenza Epidemic volunteers: Photograph: Masterton District Library and Archive.
New Plymouth Public Health Committee. New Plymouth Public Health Committee :Influenza; instructions to volunteer nurses or family attendants. Tar[anaki] News Print [1918?]. Ref: Eph-B-HEALTH-1918-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
An influenza medicine depot in Christchurch for "poor" people. Taken by an unknown photographer 4 December 1918. The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-008542-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
Emergency Motorcycle Corps, during the 1918 influenza epidemic, Christchurch. The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives. Ref: 1/1-008543-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
Waikumete Cemetery. Photo: Robin Capper (CC BY-NC 2.0)
The 1918 influenza pandemic killed at least 50 million people worldwide. In New Zealand, more than 8500 deaths were attributed to the pandemic in just two months.
Australian Historian Ben Mercer says the pandemic should be recognised as part of our World War One history. He talks with Kim Hill.
