Military History

It was a hundred years ago two months ago that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade played the decisive role in capturing Rafa (9 January 1917), the-then last remaining Ottoman outpost in the Sinai… Audio

Historian and author of 'New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919', Dr. Damien Fenton on New Zealanders on the Somme: The Battles of Flers-Courcelette, Morval and the Transloy Ridges. Audio

Chair of the Waitakere Ranges Local Board, and driving force behind the inaugural open day at New Zealand's largest cemetery, the first event of its kind in New Zealand. Audio, Gallery

This week's pundit takes us back a hundred years into the world of New Zealand's first armed conflict with Mujahideen, Islamic militants fighting with a jihadist motivation, and the Senussi Campaign… Audio

Historian and author of New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919, Damien Fenton discusses the Italian Front during the First World War. Audio

Historian and author of New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919, Damien Fenton on the wherewithal of war... the Battle of France (May-June 1940). Audio

Historian and author of New Zealand and the First World War 1914-1919, Damien Fenton on the wherewithal of war. Armenian 'deportations' which began the same week the New Zealand troops landed at… Audio

Tours of the military tunnels and other infrastructure on North Head have become a popular attraction in Devonport. Beneath the headland is a mass of tunnels, shafts, mine control rooms and other… Audio