With Them Through Hell

The First World War caused the largest global mobilisation of people the world had ever seen and for New Zealanders the distance traveled was especially significant. But it wasn't just soldiers that crossed several oceans to serve. 

Landing Horses on Gallipoli - Alexander Turnbull Library PAI-O-026-04-7

NZ Dental Hospital in Nielles, France - Alexander Turnbull Library, 1/4 - 009512-G

NZ Plastic Surgery Unit at Walton on Thames in 1917 - Hocken Collections - UARE TAOKA O HAKENA, Harvey Brown Papers, MS 3094/017, S14-532 A

Final Kit Inspection at Zeitoun Egypt 1915, national Army Museum, 1922.772.1

Anna Rogers' new book With Them Through Hell looks at the people who made up the New Zealand medical services during from 1914-1918. Doctors, nurses, stretcher-bearers, orderlies and ambulance drivers, dentists, chiropodists, pharmacists, physiotherapists and chaplains filled thousands of roles on the front and at home. 

Anna joins Colin to look at the reality and legacy of the New Zealand medical personnel.