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100 Kiwi Stories: Rugby talent lost in WWI

The first All Black to die in World War I was Albert "Doolan" Downing, a rangy forward who sported a Ranfurly Shield tattoo on his left arm.

WW1: Gunner could be first war casualty

100 Kiwi Stories: Mother loses four sons in two years

14: One by one the letters arrived in New Zealand informing Gertrude Browne of the saddest news.

100 Kiwi Stories from WWI: Gas victim died 4 days after peace

13: Alfred Lloyd Speedy's name was drawn in the conscription ballot on January 13, 1917. He boarded the Tofua in April, served as a rifleman for 18 months, and was gassed in France on November 2, 1918. The Great War ended just nine days later.

Pupils get feel for trench

Students at an Auckland high school had a first-hand look at life in the trenches this week.

100 Kiwi Stories: Poignant letters from Ypres

12: Of all the soldiers who served and died in World War I, few could match the gifts of Hugh Montagu Butterworth in their descriptions of the conflict.

WW1: Sister Anzac and the Naval herstory

100 years on from the beginning of the first World War, the Torpedo Bay Naval Museum in Auckland has chosen a theatrical way of commemorating the fallen. Geoff Allen's 'Sister Anzac' tells the herstory of the hospital ship 'Maheno' and the nurses who served aboard.

Keith Locke: There's nothing great about Great War

Over the next four years we will learn much about World War I and the suffering that went with it.

Historic WWI proclamation begins commemorations

One hundred gun shots echoed over Wellington yesterday morning marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I.

NZ on Screen: Commemorating WWI

Two sides to Anzac story

New Zealand and Australia have very different takes on the Anzac legend, a prominent historian says.

100 Kiwi Stories: Tunnellers first on Western Front

9: They were the first New Zealanders on the Western Front, arriving in France in the cold spring of 1916.

Labour accuses Govt of 'penny pinching' with veterans' allowances

100 Kiwi Stories: Nurse's selfless courage at sea

8: Moments after the German torpedo struck, nurse Isabel Clark walked down the Marquette's gangplank hand in hand with a colleague. They exchanged some final words and jumped overboard, never to be seen again.

WWl: Fighting the war against disease

7: While war raged on the Western Front, hundreds died at home in the Featherston Military Camp.

Paul Moon: Look closer to home for cause of WW1

Even while "the monstrous anger of the guns" was hauling millions to their death, the blame game was already well under way.

WWl: Cyclist called up to the frontline

6: James Thomson Steven was a tall farmer from Totara Valley at Pleasant Pt in South Canterbury when war broke out.

Grave of WWI casualty slowly erased

The gravestone of a young soldier mourned as New Zealand's first casualty of World War I is so weathered that details of his sacrifice have been erased by time.