war





Hello im going to talk to you about war here is some infomation that if found: WW1

When the United Kingdom declared war on Germany at the start of the [|First World War], the New Zealand government followed without hesitation, despite its geographic isolation and small population. It was believed at the time that any declaration of war by the United Kingdom automatically included New Zealand. The total number of New Zealand troops and nurses to serve overseas in 1914-1918, excluding those in British and other [|Dominion forces], was 103,000, from a population of just over a million. Forty-two percent of men of [|military] age served in the [|NZEF]. 16,697 New Zealanders were killed and 41,317 were wounded during the war - a 58 percent [|casualty rate].[|[][|1][|]] Approximately a further thousand men died within five years of the war's end, as a result of injuries sustained, and 507 died whilst training in New Zealand between 1914 and 1918. New Zealand had one of the highest casualty and death rate [|per capita] of any country involved in the war (Serbia suffered even higher per capita losses). [|The First World War] saw [|Māori] soldiers serve for the first time in a major conflict with the [|New Zealand Army] (although a number had fought in the Second [|Boer War] when New Zealand recruiters chose to ignore British [|military] policy of the time of disallowing 'native' soldiers). A [|contingent] took part in the [|Gallipoli Campaign], and later served with distinction on the Western Front as part of the [|New Zealand (Māori) Pioneer Battalion]. 2688 [|Māori] and 346 [|Pacific islanders] -including 150 [|Niueans][|[][|2][|]]- served with New Zealand forces in total WW2

The war is generally accepted to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the [|invasion] of [|Poland] by [|Germany], and subsequent [|declarations of war] on Germany by [|France] and most of the countries of the [|British Empire] and [|Commonwealth]. Germany set out to establish a large empire in Europe. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and [|treaties], Germany conquered or subdued much of continental Europe; amid [|Nazi-Soviet agreements], the nominally neutral Soviet Union fully or partially occupied and annexed territories of its six European neighbours, [|including Poland]. Britain and the Commonwealth remained the only major force continuing the fight against the Axis in [|North Africa] and in extensive [|naval warfare]. In June 1941, the European Axis launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, giving a start to the [|largest land theatre of war in history], which, from that moment on, tied down the major part of the Axis military power. In December 1941, [|Japan], which had been [|at war] with [|China] since 1937,[|[][|2][|]] and aimed to dominate [|Asia], [|attacked the United States] and [|European possessions] in the [|Pacific Ocean], quickly conquering much of the region.
 * World War II**, or the **Second World War** (often abbreviated as **WWII** or **WW2**), was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving [|most of the world's nations]—including all of the [|great powers]—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the [|Allies] and the [|Axis]. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised. In a state of "[|total war]", the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by significant events involving the mass death of civilians, including the [|Holocaust] and the [|only use of nuclear weapons in warfare], it is the [|deadliest conflict] in [|human history],[|[][|1][|]] resulting in [|50 million to over 70 million fatalities].

[|this is a link to the website of NZ army]



Willie apiata:

Willie Apiata was born on 28 June 1972 in Mangakino in the Waikato. His birth certificate carries the first name “Bill” but he is known as Willie. His father is Maori and his mother Pakeha. His parents are separated and he is close to his mother but has not had contact with his father for several years. Willie has three sisters and is the third youngest in the family. He spent the early years of his life in Northland before moving to Te Kaha in the eastern Bay of Plenty. At Te Kaha he attended the Whanau-a-Apanui Area School which he left on the day of his fifteenth birthday. When he was 16, his mother sent him to live with relatives in Auckland; he is close to this family. Willie has a four year old son with his partner of seven years. Though separated from his partner Willie is a devoted father who spends every weekend he can with his son. Willie affiliates to the Nga Puhi iwi (tribe) through his father, but as he has spent so much time in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, he feels very strong affiliation to Whanau-a-Apanui, which is also the iwi of his partner. Willie’s home marae is Tukaki Marae in Te Kaha. Willie enlisted into the New Zealand Army on 6 October 1989 as a Territorial Force (TF), or part time, soldier in the Tauranga based Hauraki Regiment of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. He was encouraged to join by friends already in the TF. Willie first became aware of the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) when, as a TF soldier, he acted as a member of the enemy party for a NZSAS training exercise. In 1996 while still in the TF he attempted NZSAS selection but was not successful. From July 2000 – April 2001 he served in East Timor as a member of New Zealand’s 3rd Battalion Group as part of the United Nations operations there. When he returned to New Zealand in April 2001, he became a full time soldier, transferring to the regular force of the New Zealand Army. In November 2001 he attempted and passed NZSAS selection and attended the NZSAS training cycle in early 2002. On completion of the training cycle he was made a member of the NZSAS. The NZSAS can now lay claim to having two of the most highly decorated New Zealand soldiers ever, in their ranks. In 1974, Sergeant Murray Ken Hudson was posthumously awarded the George Cross, (the equivalent of the VC for acts not involving an enemy action), for bravery during a grenade training incident in Waiouru. Sergeant Hudson was a former member of the NZSAS and had served operationally with the unit in Borneo in 1966.



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