In Wellington, Hāmi Grace was respected for his cricketing and rugby prowess. In Gallipoli, his sniper skills became legendary.

Conscription was extended to Māori in June 1917. But when it was enforced only on Waikato and Maniapoto, Te Puea Hērangi relative of the Māori King, rose to the challenge.

When 150 Niuean men were shipped off to Auckland en route to the Western Front, they had no idea what lay ahead.

On 6 August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of war, Britain asked New Zealand to capture a wireless station in German Samoa.

Five members of the New Zealand Exepeditionary Force, two were Australian, were found guilty of military offences and shot at dawn during World War I.

24-year-old Te Aute College old boy Rikihana Carkeek, was working as a clerk in Wellington when he volunteered for the Native Contingent.

For Kiwi-Chinese soldier Victor Low, World War I was fought mainly underground. Dunedin-born Low was a surveyor attached to the New Zealand Tunnelling Company, which created a network of caverns and tunnels in France before the Battle of Arras in Apr

'Ranji' Wilson was an All Black between 1908 and 1914. The only New Zealander of West Indian heritage to have played for the All Blacks, he was dropped from the New Zealand Army team's 1919 tour of South Africa on racial grounds.