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• 28 Māori Battalion
  History of the Battalion.
  
  
• 28th Māori Battalion Association
  Includes association news and newsletters and historical resources about the battalion, the campaigns and the soldiers.
  
  
• Air Force Museum : New Zealand's premier military aviation collection
  The Royal New Zealand Air Force Museums site. It gives the history, programmes and locations of the RNZAF Museum at Wigram, Christchurch and the Ohakea Wing RNZAF Museum at Ohakea.
  
  
• Anti-Bases Campaign
  Campaign for the closure of foreign military and intelligence installations in New Zealand.
  
  
• Anzac.govt.nz : a guide to Anzac Day for New Zealanders
  ANZAC Day history, traditions and rituals. Includes Gallipoli guide and resources for organising a community commemoration.
  
  
• ANZUK
  A brief history of the Australian, New Zealand and United Kingdom Force serving in Singapore and Malaysia 1970-1971.
  
  
• Army Museum Waiouru
  About the museum and its exhibits, includes a feature article.
  
  
• Cenotaph database
  Search for biographical and service details for over 115,000 New Zealand service men and women from the 19th century till today, especially from World War One and World War Two. Includes photos and images of rolls.
  
  
• Classic Fighters Marlborough : Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, New Zealand
  Information about the airshow for visitors. Includes photo gallery of fighters and video clips.
  
  
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences
  Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences constituent schools, degrees offered, programmes available and teaching methods. Information on various degree options and places of study.
  
  
• CSS : Centre for Strategic Studies = Te Pōkapu Take Rautaki Aotearoa
  An independent national think-tank, founded in 1993 with the task of sustaining levels of awareness and understanding within New Zealand about the external environment in which the nation must operate in the 21st Century. In addition to a list of books for sale, the site provides online publications, including working papers, discussion papers, strategic briefing papers, newsletters, seminars and reports and contributions. There is a link to the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.
  
  
• Ex-Vietnam Services Association : EVSA
  Site updates information about negotiation process with NZ Government regarding welfare supports for Vietnam veterans; also includes information about mobility scooter hire and merchandise goods available from the Association.
  
  
• Government Communications Security Bureau
  Basic information about the GCSB, an intelligence and security agency which provides foreign intelligence information and protects government classified or sensitive information.
  
  
• H.M.N.Z.S Taranaki
  Website dedicated to those who served on the "Tiddly T", H.M.N.Z.S. Taranaki, in the Royal New Zealand Navy, from her commissioning in 1961 to her decommissioning in 1982. Includes the ship's specifications, history, operational tasks, commanding officers and a photo gallery.
  
  
• Kiwis in armour / site content by Jeff Plowman
  Documents the history of armoured fighting vehicles in New Zealand and also those used operationally in various campaigns by New Zealanders. The information presented in these pages is the result of many years research by Jeff Plowman.
  
  
• Leaders of Anzacs : officers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps died at Gallipoli, 1915
  Recorded in these pages are the names of 492 officers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) known or believed to have died as the result of their service on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, in 1915.
  
  
• Medals awarded to New Zealand military personnel
  New Zealand Defence Force site, provides information on the more common medals which have been awarded to New Zealand military personnel since the New Zealand Wars of the 1840s and 1860s.
  
  
• Memorials Register
  Information about the Memorials Register, an ongoing project to document memorials throughout New Zealand. Includes map and searchable register, with the facility to add community information.
  
  
• National War Memorial = Te Maharatanga Pakanga o te Motu
  New Zealand's national memorial in Wellington. Includes its history, opening hours and sound files from the Carillon. Section about the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
  
  
• Navy : Te Taua Moana o Aotearoa
  The RNZN site includes career opportunities, a photo gallery, online publications, and details of the ships that make up the fleet.
  
  
• Navy Museum = Te Whare Taonga o te Taua Moana o Aotearoa
  Provides information on past and present exhibitions. Includes an overview of the museum collections; RNZN history; library; history and governance of the Museum.
  
  
• New Zealand Armed Forces Memorial Project
  Project to photograph and collect a pictorial record of New Zealand war graves and memorials both overseas and in New Zealand and to record the stories of military personnel, whether they lost their lives or returned home. Site has links to Commonwealth War Graves Commission and numerous military sites.
  
  
• New Zealand at the front / written and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division 1917
  Electronic version of the book of the same name. Part of a website entitled: Digger history : unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed Services.
  
  
• New Zealand Cadet Forces
  Information about the New Zealand Cadet Forces (NZCF), a youth leadership training organisation created from the partnership between the New Zealand Defence Force and the community.
  
  
• New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines (CALM)
  Includes news items, newsletter and links to related sites.
  
  
• New Zealand Defence Force
  About the NZDF. Includes documents, information about operations and medals, links to Navy, Army and Air Force sites and news.
  
  
• New Zealand history online = Ngā kōrero aipurangi o Aotearoa
  Information and resources produced by the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Features broad categories in New Zealand history: Culture and society, Politics and government, War and society. Also includes material for students and teachers linked to the school curriculum; instruction and advice for historical research and a calendar of New Zealand history.
  
  
• New Zealand Military Historical Society
  Auckland-based society which fosters the study of New Zealand military history; warfare in New Zealand; New Zealanders at war and encourages research into traditions, uniforms, insignia and arms.
  
  
• New Zealand Ministry of Defence = Manatū Kaupapa Waonga
  The Ministry's task is to identify possible risks to New Zealand's security, its overseas trade and investment and the forces and equipment the nation will need to protect these vital interests. The web site contains information about the Ministry of Defence as an organisation, and the key personnel involved; official press releases and speeches & press release archives; information on new tenders and current acquisition projects; a collection of documents for public information; links to other defence-related websites; information about accessing New Zealand Defence records and medals information.
  
  
• New Zealand Vietnam veterans organisations
  Includes the New Zealand Vietnam "Roll of Honour", provided by Allan Grayling.
  
  
• New Zealand Warbirds Association (Inc.)
  The New Zealand Warbirds Association is an umbrella body dedicated to the restoration, preservation and operation of service aircraft in full flying condition.
  
  
• New Zealand Wars = Nga Pakanga Whenua o Mua
  Information and materials dealing with the New Zealand Wars. Includes bibliography.
  
  
• New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps & Women's Auxiliary Air Force
  Site has brief histories of the NZWRAC and NZWAAF, pictures, personal narratives and links to related sites.
  
  
• New Zealand's roll of honour
  Register of New Zealand soldiers who died in the New Zealand Wars, Boer War, World War I, World War II, and in overseas service subsequently, plus a listing of known New Zealand veterans of the US Civil War. Still incomplete. Includes personal narratives and letters relating to the Boer War, World War I, and World War II.
  
  
• Ngā Toa
  Ngā Toa meaning "Many Warriors" in the Māori language is a project dedicated to preserving the oral histories of New Zealand's last remaining World War II veterans. Contains over 200 interviews which have been compiled in the Ngā Toa video archive by Patrick Bronte.
  
  
• NZ Army : a short history of the New Zealand Army, 1840 to 1990s
  Provides historical information on origins and military activity of the New Zealand Army. Site is divided into sections based on military events. Includes separate biographical sections on Freyberg and Sir Keith Park. Includes information on medals with photographs.
  
  
• NZ Army = Ngāti Tumatauenga
  Information about the Army; vision for the future; operations; careers in the Army; the territorial (part-time) force; and the Army Museum, Waiouru.
  
  
• Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War
  Online version of 'Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945', prepared under the supervision of the War History Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. Includes accounts of battalions, campaigns, prisoners of war and field medicine. Includes photographs and maps. Full text in HTML and LIT formats. Project managed by Victoria University of Wellington's New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC).
  
  
• Peace researcher : the official journal of the Anti-Bases Campaign
  Peace Researcher is published by the Anti-Bases Campaign of Christchurch. It covers a range of peace issues with emphasis on foreign military bases and intelligence topics. The site also gives subscription details for the print edition.
  
  
• Punji pit : poems of the New Zealanders in the Vietnam War / by John A. Moller
  A selection of poems from: The punji pit, by John A. Moller, Tauranga, N.Z. : Tauranga Moana Press, 1986. The site also has a roll of hounour of New Zealanders who fell in Vietnam and links to sites on the Vietnam War and New Zealand military history.
  
  
• RNZN Communicators Association
  The association for serving and former members of the Royal New Zealand Navy Communications Branch. Includes articles and HMNZS Achilles by Jack S. Harker.
  
  
• Royal New Zealand Air Force
  The RNZAF site includes careers information, details of the types of aircraft in the Force, a picture gallery, videos, and downloadable files.
  
  
• Royal New Zealand Artillery Old Comrades' Association
  Includes history, recollections and opinions from New Zealand's professional gunners. The equipment, daily life, customs and traditions, organisational structures, and images of artillery from the 19th century to the present during war, peacekeeping and peacetime.
  
  
• Royal New Zealand Naval Association Inc.
  The Association for all serving or who have served in Her Majesty's Royal Navies. History of the association. Current news and events. Information on Sea Cadet Corps. Links to individual ship and branch associations.
  
  
• Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association Inc.
  RSA promotes the remembrance and welfare of returned servicemen.
  
  
• SinkF69
  SinkF69 Charitable Trust formed for the acquisition of the retired HMNZS Wellington, a Leander class frigate, to utilise the vessel to create an artificial marine reef and recreational diver attraction. Includes information about the project as well as the history of the frigate and technical specifications. Also Reefing Programme and information about New Zealand shipwrecks accompanied by map.
  
  
• Special Air Service : New Zealand Army special forces
  Leon (Junior) Harrison's New Zealand SAS page.
  
  
• Unofficial website of the Royal New Zealand Navy : the past, the present & the future
  Information about the ships and aircraft used by the New Zealand Government, the NZ Division of the Royal Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy since its formation on 1 October, 1941. Links to military websites.
  
  
• Veterans' Affairs New Zealand
  Website about policies and services for war veterans.
  
  
• Victor Company, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, Vietnam 1967 : the originals
  A memoir of the service of the soldiers of the original Victor Company. Members of the company are invited to contribute their memories and stories. Includes a Roll of Honour. The site contains a list of links to other veteran web sites and histories of the Vietnam conflict.
  
  
• WaiMilHist
  The electronic journal of military history within the History Department at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
  
  
• Warbirds Over Wanaka
  Wanaka International airshow held biannualy. Contains information about current and past shows.
  
  
• World War II Historical Re-enactment Society (N.Z.) Inc.
  Society members put on displays, in period costume, entertaining and educating the public about World War II. Includes issues of the quarterly newsletter Relive history.