WW1

Dunedin jeweler back from a four-month research trip to to Europe and North America for his Poppies of War and Peace project, investigating the life and work of Moina Belle Michael, the "Poppy Lady".

First World War commemorations have only just begun, but a government agency has already identified war fatigue as a risk. Audio

While the public supplied funds for motorcars and motorcycles to be bought for the Main Body, the army relied on horses for transport. Percy Lowndes and another veteran recall the shipping of the… Audio

Radio New Zealand political reporter Craig McCullouch was in Albany at the commemorations. Audio

This time, 100 years ago, thousands of New Zealand troops joined up with their Australian comrades in Western Australia, and headed off to fight in the First World War. Audio

It's 100 years tomorrow since 30-thousand New Zealand and Australian troops left Western Australia for the battlefields of the First World War. Audio

It's 97 years since the Battle of Passchendaele which became a byword for horror after more than 800 New Zealand soldiers were killed and almost 3000 injured in a single day's fighting. Audio

Alfred Mazengarb describes leaving with the Main Body in October 1914 and Colin Franklin-Browne recalls the treatment of men who were not joining up. A letter home from Private John Thompson of… Audio

Sixteen kilometres of trenches, more than a thousand geographic features and 11 hundred relics of war. Audio

What may well be one of the highlights of the World War One commemorations is currently steaming its way across the North Island's railroads. It's the fully restored locomotive Ab608, which in 1925… Audio

Ena Ryan describes excitement of Main Draft leaving and General Sir Andrew Russell describes the attitude of the men. Newspaper report of some soldiers not letting authorities know of the need to send… Audio

Literary commentators Kate Camp, Harry Ricketts, Jane Stafford and Kate Hunter look at literature from the front lines, including 'Storm of Steel', 'Testament of Youth' and 'We Shall Not Cease'. What… Audio

A new exhibition called World War One - A contemporary conversation, the National Library of New Zealand is reflecting on the history and repercussions of war and conflict. As well as displaying some… Audio

In June 1913, William Massey's government clamped down on youths who were avoiding recently introduced military training. When a dozen or so young conscientious objectors were incarcerated in Fort… Audio

The largest group of men ever to leave this country to fight overseas left from Wellington on this day, 100 years ago to take part in the First World War. Audio

Charlie Adlard is a British comic book artist and penciller, known for his work on the long-running Image Comics series The Walking Dead. A post-apocalyptic horror story of humans fighting zombies… Audio

Jim Warner of Waikato recalls that no pressure was put on men to join up in the early days. And his own keenness to enlist. Duncan McCormick describes his experience as a conscientious objector. Jim… Audio

A panel discussion about the poetry of the First World War involving Harry Ricketts, Kate Camp, Jane Stafford and Dave Armstrong. The conversation includes generous readings from war poets famous and… Audio

Sisters in Arms tells the stories of Sofija Jovanovic, who posed as a man to join the Serbian army and fight in the First World War, and Dr Jessie Scott, among New Zealand's first women surgeons, who… Audio

Kevin Clements is the chair of the Archibald Baxter Memorial Trust, which was formed to remember New Zealand's best-known conscientious objector. The trust has plans to honour Archibald Baxter and… Audio