Anzac

Sergeant Cobb recalls an armistice to bury the dead from both sides at Gallipoli, May 1915. Burial lessened the threat of disease and was in the interests of both the allied and Turkish forces. Audio

A NZ soldier recalls being wounded at Gallipoli and applying his own basic first aid to his shattered knee. He is then carried to medical facilities on the beach which are totally inadequate. Audio

Sergeant Cobb, Wellington Mounted Rifles, recalls constructing trenches at Gallipoli and conditions in the trenches. He notes that the outdoor living experienced by many NZ soldiers back home gives… Audio

NZ soldier R.J. Waite recalls ways and means of dealing with a shortage of water after landing at Anzac Cove April 1915. Audio

This poem reflects the bitterness felt by some soldiers and subsequent generations at the failure of some of the strategies and tactics employed at Gallipoli. Audio

New Zealand and Australian troops land at ANZAC cove, 25 April 1915. There’s panic among NZ troops when first they come under Turkish fire but an officer with a drawn revolver re-establishes… Audio

From the Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in central Wellington (RNZ) Audio

Journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, TV commentator, former radio presenter and national representative rugby union player whose new book is Gallipoli (Random House). He will be… Audio

Project Manager of the First World War Centenary Programme for the Wellington City Council. Audio

Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service during World War Two, in New Zealand and the United Kingdom respectively. Audio

Creative Director at Locales, who have developed the Ngā Tapuwae New Zealand First World War Trails for the WW100 Programme Office. Audio

Wellington regional president of UN Youth New Zealand. Audio

Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force from 2011 to 2014. Audio

Reporter for Radio New Zealand at the wreath laying ceremony at the Cenotaph, Wellington. Audio

Regional correspondent for Radio New Zealand, reporting on Anzac commemorations in Queenstown. Audio

Associate Professor of the Modern History of the Middle East and Fellow of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle… Audio

Son of WW1 sapper Bertram Martin, one of the New Zealand Tunnellers. Audio

Reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, from the Dawn Service in Canberra. Audio