THE south AFRICAN TRAGEDY​ 1899-1902


The New Zealand contribution of 6,500 men in ten contingents is covered in detail, as are many of the social issues such as Maori participation in the war. Today, we can look back with pride at how incredibly supportive the 800,000 population of New Zealand was of these brave soldiers. About 81,000 or more persons died during the war. In total, 70 NZMR soldiers died as a result of battle while 158 died from illness, disease or accident and 166 were wounded. The NZMR soldiers served our nation with pride, winning many accolades for their skill, daring and professionalism. The Times History of the war in South Africa acknowledges that “the New Zealanders were on average the best mounted troops in South Africa”.

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STILL SECOND TO NONE
The Second 25 years of the . . .
2nd/ Ist Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.
                                1999-2024
Still Second to None is the sequel to Edward Latter’s book on the first 25 years of the 2nd/1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. This volume seeks to cover the second 25 years, and includes a summary of the first book. The 2nd/1st Battalion,based in Burnham Camp just south of Christchurch, has experienced much in its fifty years, both on operations and in more peaceful activities. The book covers operations from a company group deployment on a United Nations mission to Bosnia in 1995 to the complete Battalion on operations in East Timor in 2000. Since that first battalion-level deployment – the first since its predecessors went to Malaya in 1959 – rifle companies, platoons and individuals have served in Afghanistan, Iraq, Solomon Islands, Sinai as well as peace-keeping missions in various parts of the South-West Pacific. 
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​GUERILLA SURGEON
War brings strange fates to many men but to none more than Lindsay Rogers, a New Zealand surgeon who had been serving with the Eighth Army in the desert. He volunteered for special service in S.O.E. and then found himself set down on one dark night on the Isle of Vis, off the Dalmation coast.
His job was to work as a surgeon among Yugoslav partisans; to fight with them, to tend the wounded and to act as an unofficial liaison officer between them and the Allied troops. For many months to come, in caves and deep in forests, up mountains, he brought all his skill as a surgeon, his staunch-ness and bravery as a serving soldier to his strange job...

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