
The campaign that failed
Conscription was introduced by law in New Z...

“The Answer to Declining Enlistment Numbers”
This pro-conscription cartoon appeared short...

Pacifism on the home front
In this excerpt, Millicent Baxter recalls he...

A matter of principle
Duncan McCormack was a working-class sociali...

Turning boys into soldiers
Compulsory military training was establ...

The martyrs of Ripa
This 1980 ‘Spectrum’ radio documentary&nb...

"The first gamble in human life"
In 1916 the New Zealand Government intr...

Photos after the first conscription ballot
Shot on 16 November 1916, the day of th...