New Zealand Artillery in the Field

The New Zealand Field Artillerys experience in the Great War dates from December 1914 when its single brigade consisting of three four-gun batteries arrived in Egypt to train and prepare fpor the Gallipoli landings. The NZFA had the honour of being the first battery ashore at Gallipoli on 26th April 1915. Later greatly expanded the NZFA went to the Western Front where it served at Armentieres on the Somme and in the Ypres Salient taking part in the fighting at Third Ypres (I Passchendaele). This is a full account of the service of a unit which was in the thick of the fighting.