Black and white photograph, printed onto a postcard (unused). Informal group of airmen relaxing on the deck of a ship, identified as S.S. Arawa, 1917, by the note written in upper left corner. The...
Early World War One German infantry leather waist-belt complete with Imperial Prussian brass buckle with "GOTT MIT UNS" (“God with us”) crown and laurel leaf nickel face plate. Belt is stamped...
Tin containing six metal fragments from Zeppelin L-31. Label on lid of tin inscribed with "Pieces of Zeppelin / brought down by Lieu. Tempest DSO / at Potters Bar Herts. / Oct 1st 1916". Flying...
Originally commissioned as a gift from New Zealand to Britain, HMS New Zealand was launched in 1911. Two years later the ship embarked on a ten month tour of the British dominions which included a...
More than 500 women served overseas as nurses in the New Zealand Army Nursing service during the First World War; one of them was Sister Ina Nellie Coster, Registered Nurse 22/71. ...
This much-loved dolls’ house was made circa 1945 by a WWI veteran for my mother when she was a young girl in Cremorne, Sydney, Australia. So far it has been used by four girls from three...
Private Arthur Elderton 6/3008 New Zealand Expeditionary Force was born in Christchurch on 30 January 1894. His father, Henry Elderton, was the head shepherd on a farm in Amberley, North...
Following the outbreak of war several committees were formed to raise funds for the war effort. The members of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of New Zealand formed a fundraising committee. ...
In May 1915 a torpedo launched from a German U-boat struck the British luxury liner, the Lusitania. Germany had declared the waters around the British Isles a war zone in response to a British...