WW1

Until now there had been few New Zealand war deaths - about a dozen men had died from illness. News came of the first New Zealand battle casualty, William Ham. Audio

Te Papa curator Puawai Cairns has been researching the stories of Māori men at Gallipoli. She discusses their reasons for volunteering, what happened to them and reuniting families with the stories of… Audio

Theresa Rosanowski is organising the Birch Hill Station Memorial Ride. Audio

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the first New Zealand combat casualty of the First World War. Private William Ham from Ngatimoti near Nelson died from his wounds after the Battle of the Suez… Audio

Damien Fenton on the wherewithal of war, it's the 100th anniversary of the first time the New Zealanders saw combat in World War One. Audio

60, 000 soldiers were trained at the Featherston Military Training Camp from 1916 to 1918. It was built in under a year by 1000 workers, driven by World War One's urgent need for men to fill the… Audio

Kate Camp discusses Testament of Youth, the first instalment of Vera Brittain's memoirs, published in 1933. Audio

The Vintage Aviator recreates old airplanes, mainly from World War I, using century old techniques as well as modern science and engineering Audio

The Vintage Aviator manufactures and restores World War 1 airplanes, using state-of-the-art ascience and engineering. Audio

What does it take to make a robot? Well, Lee Bennett, founder of Wellington Makerspace is the very man to tell you what's involved. With a background in robotics and aircraft engineering, he has also… Audio

The Vintage Aviator manufactures and restores World War 1 airplanes, using state-of-the-art ascience and engineering. Audio

Aprons and ostrich feathers don't always spring to mind when thinking about the First World War. Audio

2015 marks the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign and historians are pouring through records from the First World War looking for new insights into the conflict. Chris Bourke is the award winning… Audio

Professor John Psathas of Victoria Univeristy is the composer behind No Man's Land, a piece of music and film which will bring together musicians from all around the world to commemorate the First… Audio

A British war veteran who left his care home to attend last year's 70th anniversary D-Day events in France has died - months before he hoped to return to Normandy's beaches. Audio

100 years ago on April 25th 1915 New Zealand and Australian forces landed on a remote part of the Ottoman Empire as it was then known, and at a place that would be forever be etched in the annals of… Audio

A classic story of the first Christmas in the trenches in 1914. Audio

Christmas Eve 1914, soldiers along the Western Front during the First World War did something extraordinary. They laid down their weapons, and ventured out of the trenches into No Mans Land to… Audio

Reproductions of WW1 letters written to and from soldiers and the 51 best sentences from books. Audio

Peter Buck tells of joining the Maori contingent as medical officer and Doctor Agnes Bennett describes the pleasant journey for the nurses from New Zealand to the war zone. Reports of canteens ripping… Audio