A week has passed since the trip, and wow! What a trip. Two weeks of amazing memories, and unforgettable experiences. For me, the trip was a highlight reel; each day full of learning, emotion, discovery and of course, our honorary mascot Guillaume Miguel Hyboud-Peron. Guillaume was our bear, was shared amongst us, bought us together and was our French guide (originally from Indonesia) who took us on the tour of a lifetime.
I feel the best way to describe the trip, is by using the word...
I’ve never been the most timely person, so here’s the story of two amazing women, brought to you very late the night before the Young Ambassadors go to France!
The tour is slowly but surely beginning to dawn on me now as the flight to France is this Saturday. And after the skype call on Tuesday with all the group members, I feel ready to go and make the most out of my time over there.
Over the past month at Auckland Museum, a free exhibition was put together in order to re-discuss the controversies that were presented before the passing of the Military Service Act of 1916. My history teacher was the one who pointed me in the direction to this exhibition and so one weekend, I found myself attending this exhibition. It’s called “A Case for Conscription” and what I witnessed was a reenactment debate on the issues of whether or not Maori should be conscripted and whether or...
Ok so first of all, to explain the title: It's been over 3 weeks since I finally figured out what I'd like the topic for my project to be about but I never got around to posting about it because it was a double up as one of my history assessments. So forgive me, but I had to focus on that. BUT my untimely array of school obligations did not end there. Oh no it did not “=_= because following that, I had to prepare for preliminary exams which is this week, AKA just a stepping stone away from...
La semaine dernière
5 more days until we fly to France. I am feeling very excited and nervous at the same time! I can’t wait to go back to France and go there with a significant purpose. All i want to take with me on this trip is an open mind, i want to capture everything that will help me illustrate my project to people. From the French point of view, to the New Zealand point of view and German. I want to show people through my project that we are all human, they were human and no matter...
During the last few weeks, I’ve been doing some research into the New Zealand soldiers and the roles that they had during the Battle of the Somme.
While uncovering the story of my great grandfather, I became fascinated with the detail of the various war records - whether they be the enlistment forms or the day-to-day journals written from the field. Here are some interesting bits and pieces I came across on my travels...
The cover photo shows my great grandfather's original attestation for general service when he would have signed up to go over to Samoa within the first few days of war breaking out. This is the second form he would have...
Salut!
Thank you to everyone who has helped out with fundraising, especially the Whakatane West Rotary and Harvey Norman Whakatane.
My project is based on a few of the soldiers from the Whakatane area and also sharing some information about the pioneer battalion at the Somme. Thank you to the Whakatane research centre, Sonia Edwards and Sarndra Lees from Auckland war memorial museum for assisting me with finding information.
However In this post i’m going to share the story of a...
I’ve known bits and pieces of my great grandfather’s story but yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with my grandmother and her brother to uncover the full truth. My great-uncle undertook his own research in France a few years ago, following in the footsteps of his father, including the exact spot where he was wounded, according to field reports. He travelled to many of the places which I too will visit in fewer than two weeks’ time! Here is the story of my great-grandfather which I have...
The first big NZ campaign of WW1 is one we know lots about, Gallipoli. It was a shocking and horrifying way to start the war for New Zealand, whose losses were one dead for every six who fought there.
For Rotorua soldiers who went to Gallipoli , it was like how many described it; hell. In Don Stafford's The New Century In Rotorua, Dick Garlid, a Rotorua man serving with the Auckland Mounted Rifles said after the war, “Gallipoli was a starvation hole. Oh, crikey, they were dying like flies. I...
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