James Allen Ward at the time he received the Victoria Cross

Second Maori Battalion at Ruatoria for the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngar...

Major A Awatere receives the Military Cross from General Freyberg at 5 NZ Infantry Brigade parade in the Vol...

A photograph of James Gowing Godwin taken between 1942 and early 1944, when he was captured by the Japanese

MISS AMY JOHNSON. A cable message received today states that Miss Johnson has left Japan on the return fligh...

Major J L McDuff receives the Military Cross from General Freyberg at Maadi, World War II - Photograph taken...

Major Tweedie, NZ Representative of the Red Cross Society, responds after receiving a cheque donated by repa...

and was. viewed with some misgivings at the time. Japanese maps now indicate an extension of the annexations...

LEFT: Informed that he would be taken back to Australian headquarters at Torokina, the Japanese envoy jumps ...

Corporal James King, New Zealand World War 2 soldier, receiving the Military Medal from General Freyberg, Fl...

The Bride Kono Fleeing Her Ugly Bridegroom at the Wedding upon Discovering He Was Not the Person She Had Promised to Marry

Men at the NZ LOB Camp pass the time carving chess pieces, Italy, World War II - Photograph taken by George ...

J A Gasson, fl 1945 (Photographer) : German prisoners bring in wounded under the cover of the Red Cross flag...

Two repatriated soldiers and a Red Cross worker look out train window at Alexandria on the way to Cairo, Wor...

For Quarantine Officer Cyril Evans 1981 was the Year of the Bat. Not only did he have a borer-nibbled cricke...

In the Attack on Newchang, Colonel Satō Was Wounded by an Enemy Bullet. Undauntedly, However, He Kept Dashing at the Enemy Using the Regimental Flag as a Crutch, and Finally Conquered an Enemy Fortress

Lieutenant Colonel J T Burrows after receiving the DSO at Maadi, World War II - Photograph taken by M D Elias

New Zealand soldiers receiving New Zealand Patriotic Fund parcels at lunchtime on the Italian Front, World W...

Lt W F Liley receives the MC from General Auchinleck at Maadi, World War II

Prostitutes Taking Time off at Yoshidachō, Honjo, from the series Comic Pictures of Famous Places Amid the Civilization of Tōkyō (Tōkyō kaika kyōga meisho)

A Japanese freighter straddled by bombs when the United Stales Navy attacked the Japanese naval base at Truk...

Sergeant W Goodmanson receives the Military Medal from General Freyberg at Maadi, World War II - Photograph ...

A Sailor of Our Warship, Sazanami, Jumped into the Deck of a Russian Ship. With a Thundering Cry, "Hey, You!" He Cut at the Enemy Captain, and then Kicked Him off the Deck into the Water (In the Sea Battle near Port Arthur, March 10, 1904)

Colonel S F Hartnell receives the DSO from General Freyberg at Maadi, World War II - Photograph taken by M D...

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Hata Rokurozaemon Disguised as the Samurai's Manservant (Yakko) Igaguri Hanehei (left), and Nakamura Noshio I as the Lady-in-Waiting Koto no Naishi (right), in the Dance Sequence "Sodegasa Momiji no Tekuda" (Umbrella Sleeves: Coquettish Tricks at Maple Time), from the Fourth Act of the Play Hikitsurete Yagoe Taiheiki (The War Tale Taiheiki: With Din and Clamor of Battle), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776