WW1

In the Bay of Plenty town of Te Puke, a new memorial has been unveiled. It bears the names of fifty locals the town was previously unaware served in the First World War - the reason they're there now… Audio

A military historian is rejecting the claim that Australia's ANZACs were bludgers as a backlash across the Tasman continues. Audio

The British period drama 'Downton Abbey' is filmed at Highclere Castle on the Berkshire, Hampshire border in the South of England. The Carnavon family has lived in the castle since 1679. A… Audio

Topics - A former army officer and historian for Australia's Department of Veterans Affairs, Graham Wilson, says one of the most persistent myths was of the great independent Aussie bushman instantly… Audio

Keith Stewart was a wee lad but still remembers the Featherston Military camp. He's about to turn 96, and his own life is worthy of a book. Inventions are in his genes and Keith has invented something… Audio

The army camp established outside Featherston for training First World War recruits took on a very different nature in the Second World War when it was used as a Japanese POW camp. Audio

Professor Glyn Harper is the author of 'Letters from Gallipoli, New Zealand Soldiers Write Home'. He speaks here to Lynn Freeman about an ambitious new centenary history of New Zealanders in the First… Audio

A 99 year old 12.5 metre long launch that started life as a simple river boat on the Avon has just become part of the Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum's collection for her role in saving lives at… Audio

War memorials abound in this country. We love 'em, and they're every where. As the song says, "New Zealand small towns are all the same; pub, church, war memorial". And our own Wanganui was once… Audio

The most extensive archaeological survey of the Gallipoli battle field has discovered Malone's Terraces, a vital Anzac defence position long thought to have been destroyed. Audio

A major survey of the battlefields at Gallipoli is helping to shape our understanding of the Anzac area of Gallipoli. The historical and archaeological survey of the Anzac battlefields was conducted… Audio

Claude Stanley Choules, the last surviving First World War combatant, has died. He was the last known male survivor of the 70 million military personnel who fought World War I. Nicknamed Chuckles, he… Audio

Murat Deniz is a Turkish tour guide, specialising in tours of Gallipoli and Anzac Cove. Audio

On Anzac Day 1916, the world's first Anzac ceremony was held on a rugged hillside overlooking the village of Tinui in the Wairarapa. Reverend Basil Ashcroft erected a wooden cross on the hill. It… Audio

Professor Glyn Harper is the editor of 'Letters from Gallipoli: New Zealand Soldiers Write Home'. This book tells the story of the Gallipoli campaign from the invasion to the evacuation… Audio

Harry Ricketts, author of Strange Meetings: Poets of the Great War. A discussion of First World War poetry. Audio

4000 metres of trenches, bottles of rum and German beer and a camp for baking bread have been uncovered by a team of international archaeologists doing the first survey of the Gallipoli battlefields.

Archaeologists have made some surprising discoveries in the first-ever joint Australian, Turkish and New Zealand survey of the Anzac battlefield. The findings include 12 cemeteries, concrete boundary… Audio

Peter Henderson has been paying the rates on land in Hunterville that isn't even his, in the hopes that descendants of the original owner will someday come forward and claim it. The land was issued by… Audio

A one hundred and tenth birthday is not a milestone many people reach. The last surving man who fought in  WW1 - Claude Stanley Choules nicknamed Chuckles, served on an aircraft carrier and witnessed… Audio