By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European
colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat.
With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the
New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for
support.
This ground-breaking work shows, for the first time in detail, how the
military, social and economic brotherhood later embodied in the notion of the
Anzac spirit began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli, but 50 years earlier
in the dame forests and fields of the North Island of New Zealand.
Contents:
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Friend Indeed - Prelude 1834-1845
1. A Helping Hand
2. Called Upon Once More
3. The Home Front
4. A Real War
5. The Business of Warefare
6. The Floodgates Open
7. In In Return for Service
8. From One Coast to Another
Conclusion: A Friend Indeed - The Anzac Genesis
Appendix A. Conditions for Military Settler Service for the Province of Taranaki,
Gazetted on 6 July 1863
Appendix B. Conditions for Military Settler Service for the Waikato District of
the Province of Auckland, Gazetted on 5 August 1863
Appendix C. Conditions for Military Settler Service for the Land Situated in the
Northern Island of New Zealand, Gazetted on 12 September 1863
Appendix D. Australian-enlisted (or -derived) Taranaki or Waikato Military
Settler Casualties 1863-69
Appendix E. Melbourne Published Enlistment Advertisement for the New Zealand
Armed Constabulary, 5 December 1868
Appendix F. Australian-enlisted (or -derived) Armed Constabulary Casualties
1868-69
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index
