WW1 home front, john grant, victoria cross, and hawera
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Film showing the civic reception in Hāwera for Victoria Cross recipient Lieutenant John Grant in October 1919. With the exception of Lieutenant Samuel Frickleton, who returned to New Zealand in June 1918, the dominion’s surviving Victoria Cross holders came home after the armistice with Germany. All were honoured with civic receptions, two of th...
WW1 home front, john grant, victoria cross, and hawera
Abstract
Film showing the civic reception in Hāwera for Victoria Cross recipient Lieutenant John Grant in October 1919. With the exception of Lieutenant Samuel Frickleton, who returned to New Zealand in June 1918, the dominion’s surviving Victoria Cross holders came home after the armistice with Germany. All were honoured with civic receptions, two of th...
WW1, WW1 home front, fundraising, belgium, queen elisabeth medal, and World War I
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The Belgian government created the Medaille de la Reine Elisabeth, or Queen Elisabeth Medal, to honour Belgian and foreign women who had performed outstanding services in aid of Belgian refugees and the military. Thirty-three women in New Zealand received the medal.
The Maori (Pioneer) Battalion was one of only three New Zealand Expeditionary Force formations – and the only battalion – to return from the First World War as a complete unit.
Prohibition supporters presented Parliament with a petition containing more than 240,000 signatures demanding an end to the manufacture and sale of alcohol in New Zealand.
conscription, conscientious objection, peter fraser, and WW1 home front
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Peter Fraser’s trial in the Wellington Magistrates’ Court was the sequel to a speech in which he attacked the government’s policy of military conscription.
WW1, WW1 home front, wellington city, and World War I
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Thousands of Wellingtonians rose before dawn and crowded vantage points around the harbour to watch as 10 grey-painted troopships, escorted by four warships, sailed to war.
Sapper Robert Arthur Hislop was guarding the Parnell railway bridge in Auckland when he accidentally fell. He died from his injuries six days later, but it would take a century for Hislop to be officially recognised as the first New Zealand casualty of the Great War.
The first large group of Gallipoli wounded to return to New Zealand arrived in Wellington on the troopship Willochra as part of a draft of around 300 men.
WW1, casualties, british empire, national identity, ormond burtonn, WW1 home front, and World War I
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie were assassinated in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo. This was a key event in sparking the Great War of 1914–18.
german navy, WW1, WW1 home front, merchant marine, and World War I
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Count von Luckner's raider Seeadler sank 14 Allied ships in 1917 before he was captured in Fiji. His subsequent escape from Motuihe Island in the Hauraki Gulf made him a legend.
