Monday, April 22, 2013

What If New Zealand Had Not Fought in World War I?

From Voxy.co.uk.

Anzac Day is approaching (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps), a historian is looking into what might have happened had the country stayed out of the war.

New Zealand sent 100,000 men to fight for Britain and 18,000 of those died.

It is hard to imagine the country not joining the war effort.  The country had already developed a strong sense of national identity. 

Many of New Zealand's casualties came at Gallipoli.

The efforts of New Zealand and Australia in the First World War are too often overlooked.  And for that matter, all the countries of the British Empire.

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