This free site does not seek to replicate anything held in public war libraries and museums. This site is about recording and preserving the personal photos, and memories of New Zealand service-personnel, and linking that part of their life with archives of their family history.

While a lot of WW2 veterans are still alive, family or friends should collaborate with them and sort out their war-time memorabilia- photos from Egypt, Italy, the RAF, the RNZAF, the Pacific, etc, the troop-ships they went and returned in, ships they served on, what battles they fought in, what they saw, the concerts, games, furloughs, locals, and for some, as POW's. And what they felt about it all.

 Everyone who has served their country, in whatever way, has a record worth preserving, and future generations will increasingly want to know.

As an added feature, publishing any notice on this site with a military status will generate email alerts to everyone who have Military Status on Email Alert - people such as members of your old regiment, or their families, or RSA members for example.

A bit like Family Histories, your record can just be an assembly of fragments- stories from here and there- where and when you trained, where you went etc and photos you might have taken, your medals etc.

Or, it might be several Chapters long and published almost in book form.

If you are only using one notice then head each paragraph with mini-chapter headings- eg "1941- Into Camp".

Getting your photos copied is very simple, safe and cheap - click on "Any Questions?" to learn how. Each notice has up to 5000 words and up to 10 photos. It first appears in Current Notices for 14 days, and then shifts automatically into free-to-view archives where it is preserved indefinately for future generations. It can be amended at any time for errors and omissions or extra photos - but only the password holder can do so.

You can take as much time as you like on your draft. Your work is automatically saved every 60 seconds.

This is a free site. You as author retain copyright so it cannot be reprinted elsewhere without your permission.

Publishing Hints below are for help if you want to get a little more fancy in what you publish, and you will need it for line-breaks in poetry. For straight-forward text, you can safely ignore it.

Publishing Hints.

There is nothing at all difficult about publishing a notice or history. Its really just simply typing it in. However, there are one or two things you need to keep in mind. For a start, the text you type in will always be continuous, even if you click on "enter"(its the program we use). So the following Hints are to help you make your publication look the way you want it to.

#1. To start a new line (as opposed to letting our program do it as each line gets full), you must type in <br> exactly like that at the end of the line where you want the break, and the line will "break" at that point and restart on the immediate next line. This is especially necessary if you are typing poetry for example, or reported speech.

If you just want a new paragraph break, all you need to do is double click on Enter.

#2. To create a Bold heading (or make some text bold), press Ctrl and B at the same time. This will then show on your screen as <B></B> and your cursor should be blinking in the middle. If it is not, move it there. Then simply type in the words you want to be bold.

Now, this is very important- when you have completed the words you want bold- you must move the cursor to the right of </B>. Until that is done, everything you carry on typing will stay bold.

It is possible to go back to some text you have already typed and make it bold. If you want to do this, select the words you want bold by running your cursor over the text you want bold while holding the click down (this will make the selected text black), press Ctrl and B which will put <B> and </B> around the words, and then move the cursor back to where you want to continue typing.

If this is a heading and you want it on a seperate line, enter it as in #1 above.

#3. To create a footnote, press Ctrl and N at the same time. This will show as <FOOTNOTE_1> <FOOTNOTE1>on your screen with your cursor blinking in the middle. Type in your footnote, and remember to move your cursor to the right of the second <FOOTNOTE> when you have finished the footnote to return you to the text you are typing. Each Footnote is numbered consecutively automatically. 

To view your footnotes when you are working on the text, you will find them in numerical order at the bottom of all you have typed. They can be deleted (the numbers automatically readjust), or edited.

If later, you wish to insert another footnote anywhere in your text, click your cursor at the point you want it and simply repeat #3. The numbers will automatically adjust.