SOURCES

 

A range of primary and secondary sources were used in the creation of this web site. The writer gratefully acknowledges the following institutions for providing sources.

 

PRIMARY SOURCES

Diaries and Letters

Diary and letters of Arthur Elderton, ARC 1999.6, Documentary History Centre, Canterbury Museum .

Diary and letters of J.C. (Jack) Leversedge, ARC 1993-48, Documentary History Centre, Canterbury Museum .

Edward Percival Miller Letter, Kippenberger Military Archive, Army Museum Waiouru (1987.1645 .)

Leonard Hart Letter, Kippenberger Military Archive, Army Museum Waiouru (2004.181 .)

General Archival Sources

Archives New Zealand , Deserters and Defaulters, AD2-14/184

Archives New Zealand , Courts martial, AD78-27/25A

Archives New Zealand , War Diaries, WA1-43/1, 77/1

NZDF Personnel Records, NZDF Trentham

Interviews

Interview with Mr James Frederick Blakemore, AB 453, Oral History Centre, Alexander Turnbull Library.

Interview with Mr Henry Ashton Highet, AB 478, Oral History Centre, Alexander Turnbull Library.

Interview with Mr William Murray Morris , AB 500, Oral History Centre, Alexander Turnbull Library.

Newspapers

Canterbury Times 1915-1918

The Lyttelton Times, 1914-1923

The Press, 1914-1923

The Weekly Press, 1915-1918

Other Sources

Genealogical Indexes, Aotearoa-New Zealand Room, Canterbury Public Library

G.R. MacDonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies, Canterbury Museum

Electronic Sources

CD Rom New Zealand WWI Service Personnel and Reserves Index , St John's Branch New Zealand Society of Genealogists, 2002.

http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/search.aspx

http://library.christchurch.org.nz/OurCity.asp

 

Photographs

Photographic Archive, Canterbury Museum

Kippenberger Military Archive

 

Maps

Drawn by Marney Brosnan, School of Georgaphy, University of Canterbury

 

SECONDARY SOURCES

Useful secondary sources include:

Boyack Nicolas and Tolerton Jane (ed), In the Shadow of War: New Zealand Soldiers Talk About the War and Their Lives, Auckland , Penguin 1990.

Burton O.E. The Silent Division, Angus and Robertson, 1935

Ferguson David, The History of the Canterbury Regiment, NZEF, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1921

Gilbert Martin, The First World War: A Complete History, H. Holt, 1994.

Harper Glyn, Massacre at Passchendaele, Harper Collins, 2000

Harper Glyn, Spring Offensive: New Zealand and the Second Battle of the Somme, Harper Collins, 2003

Maclean Chris and Phillips Jock, The Sorrow and the Pride , GP Books, 1990,

Malthus Cecil, Anzac A Retrospective , Reed, 2002.

Malthus Cecil, Armentiéres and the Somme, Reed, 2002.

Pugsley Christopher, The Anzac Experience: New Zealand , Australia and Empire in the First World War, Reed, 2004

Stewart H. The New Zealand Division 1916-1919, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1921

Stowers Richard, Bloody Gallipoli, David Bateman, 2005.

Waite Fred, The New Zealanders at Gallipoli, Whitcombe and Tombes, 1919.

Williams E.P. A New Zealander's Diary, Cadsonbury Publications, 1998.

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