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100 Kiwis Stories: Tough man of the Somme dies in Africa

62: William Clachan was made of tough stuff. The Wellington schoolteacher was wounded three times on the Western Front.

100 Kiwi Stories: Kiwi part of 'hush-hush brigade'

61: Today we might call them special forces. When Robert Kenneth Nicol joined a top secret British Army unit in 1918, it was known as the "hush-hush brigade".

100 Kiwi Stories: Valiant doc cool under fire

59: Arthur Martin was hard to keep away from the front. In his early 20s he volunteered for service in the Boer War and spent a year and a half in South Africa.

100 Kiwi Stories: Britain executed Kiwi suffering from shellshock

60: At the outbreak of World War I, Victor Spencer joined queues of young volunteers eager to fight for king and country.

100 Kiwi Stories: Pilot first to win Victoria Cross

58: He was a dashing English gent of Maori descent with a daring need for speed, who became the first airman to win a Victoria Cross in World War I.

100 Kiwi Stories: Men of the cloth not spared from conflict while doing their duty

57: One hundred and forty chaplains accompanied New Zealand forces to war.

100 Kiwi Stories: Captain a real Anzac hero

57: Important chapters in Alfred Shout's life took place on both sides of the Tasman and he is remembered with pride in New Zealand and Australia.

John Roughan: Humanity amid war - a Christmas story

One Christmas story above all deserves a run this year: the sound of Silent Night from the trenches in the first Christmas of the Great War.

100 Kiwi Stories: The battle of the bottle

47: On November 3 1918, returned soldier Reuben Baldwin, 41, died suddenly in his sister's Hawera bed. Love of the odd drink had turned into a full-blown addiction. Private Baldwin drank himself to death just eight days before the war ended.

Gallipoli passes gained after all

Wanaka man Duncan Boswell has won his battle to get to Gallipoli. He and son Rhys will be part of the New Zealand contingent attending the centenary of the World War I Anzac campaign.

100 Kiwi Stories: NZ's first dashing fighter ace

46: Clive Collett had flown nearly 1200 hours in dozens of different aircraft when he took to the air in a captured German plane over the Firth of Forth.

Armistice Day: Story of a WWI soldier who never came home

November 11 has special significance for Tauranga woman Justine Neal and her family - her late father's cousin, Private Alvar Francis Fenton, served in World War I and never came home.

Services to mark end of slaughter

Armistice Day commemorations of the end of hostilities on the Western Front in World War I will involve services around New Zealand at 11am today.

Harry returns to Afghanistan

Prince Harry returned to Afghanistan today on behalf of the Queen as he led emotional tributes to his friends who died in the name of war.

100 Kiwi Stories: Cool soldier led by example

44: Hastings-born George Masters took part in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 before being posted to Europe. His bravery was recorded in the London Gazette

100 Kiwi Stories: Animal mascots lift morale

43: In spring 1916, General Sir Tom Bridges won something unusual in a Red Cross Raffle in Paris - a lion.