The New Zealanders arrive in Greece

4th April 1941: Eight hundred men from the other side of the world join British Forces building up as a deterrent to a German intervention

A postcard used by New Zealand troops to communicate with their families at home.

New Zealand had sent seventeen battalions to fight for the ‘Home country’, Britain, in the First World War. At the time, the distinction between the two nations was less marked. Many people conceived of themselves as being part of a joint enterprise, ‘the British Empire’. A…