Airey brothers
Fred and Willis Airey went to war. Willis survived, returned to University and became a prominent historian and lecturer.
Eric Astley
Eric Astley is one of five Collegians known to have enlisted with the British Section of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
Athletics team 1914
The entire 1914 Easter Tournament athletics team from Auckland University College served in the War.
Auckland Infantry
Like others in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, these four Collegians took in the sights of Cairo while at camp...
Daphne Commons
Daphne Commons was among the first 50 NZ Army Nursing Service nurses to go on active service, leaving on 8 April 1915.
Leslie Comrie
Leslie Comrie was a central figure in the history of the Roll of Honour before he too went off to war.
Vieira Currie
The war diary of medical student Vieira Currie gives a fascinating insight into his work as a medic.
Leslie Darrow
Fourth-year law student, Leslie Darrow, was serving as an Orderly Sergeant when he died at Chunuk Bair in August 1915.
Norman Davenport
Norman Davenport served with the Royal Navy Air Service patrolling the English coast for German airships.
James Dinneen
Teacher James Dinneen was one of 19 Collegians killed in northern France during the first Battle of the Somme in 1916.
S. Howard Ellis
Shot down over France, pilot Howard Ellis endured 17 months as a prisoner of war before being repatriated and rejoining the war effort.
William Forrest Fowlds
William Forrest Fowlds fought at the Somme, Messines and Passchendaele with the 4th Battalion NZ Rifle Brigade.
Herbert Goldstein
Surgeon Herbert Goldstein served as the 2nd Wellington Battalion’s Regimental Medical Officer on the Western Front.
Eric Goodfellow
Medical student Eric Goodfellow was killed in Mesopotamia in March 1916 while serving with the Royal Field Artillery.
Arthur Gray
Arthur Gray spent 14 months as a POW in Germany after a night-time patrol near Messines, Belgium ended in his capture.
Horace Hunt
Detained in Germany as an enemy alien, musician Horace Hunt spent the war in the Ruhleben civilian internment camp.