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Blenheim
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• 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 13 — Attack in the Desert
  • CHAPTER 27 — The Brick Wall—Orsogna
  • CHAPTER 31 — Cassino and the Mountains
  • CHAPTER 35 — Tiger Country
  • CHAPTER 38 — Mud Scramble in the Romagna
  • CHAPTER 43 — Flood Tide
• 19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 5 — Baggush Box
  • CHAPTER 8 — Campaign in Greece
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Division in the Desert
  • CHAPTER 19 — Cassino Fortress
  • CHAPTER 22 — Back to the Adriatic Coast
• 20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment
  • CHAPTER 1 — Formation and Training in New Zealand
  • CHAPTER 4 — The Campaign in Greece
  • CHAPTER 5 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 13 — Farewell to Maadi
  • CHAPTER 16 — To Avezzano
  • CHAPTER 18 — From Florence to the Savio
  • CHAPTER 19 — Winter on the Senio
• 22 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 11 — La Romola
  • CHAPTER 12 — Adriatic
  • CHAPTER 13 — Casa Elta
  • CHAPTER 14 — ‘Hell of a Crack’
• 23 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 11 — The Tunisian Campaign
  • CHAPTER 14 — Terelle, Atina, Rome
  • CHAPTER 17 — To the Senio
  • CHAPTER 18 — The Last Campaign
• 25 Battalion
  • CHAPTER 5 — Syria
  • CHAPTER 7 — Battle of Alamein
  • CHAPTER 17 — The Senio
• 26 Battalion
  • Chapter 1 — In Burnham and Journey Overseas
  • Chapter 3 — Greece
  • Chapter 8 — The Battle of Alamein
  • Chapter 9 — The Pursuit
  • Chapter 14 — The Battle for Cassino
• 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 3 — The First Encounter
  • CHAPTER 6 — Sidi Rezegh
  • CHAPTER 14 — The Pursuit
• 28 (Maori) Battalion
  • CHAPTER 8 — Parry and Thrust
  • CHAPTER 15 — Advance on Florence
• 2nd New Zealand Divisional Artillery
  • An Odd Assortment of Guns
  • Pressure on 6 Brigade
  • The Gazala Battle
  • The Pursuit Begins
  • M10s in Action
  • Changes in Personnel
• 4th and 6th Reserve Mechanical Transport Companies
  • CHAPTER 4 — Crete
• Alam Halfa and Alamein
  • Glossary
• Bardia to Enfidaville
  • Glossary
  • The Enemy escapes—16 December
• Battle for Egypt
  • CHAPTER 22 — Capture of Ruweisat Ridge
• Crete
  • V: Preparations of 2 NZ Division: 30 April–19 May
• Divisional Cavalry
  • CHAPTER 1 — Ngaruawahia - Sea Voyage - Arrival at Maadi
  • CHAPTER 2 — Maadi - Garawla - Baggush - Daba
  • CHAPTER 5 — Greece
  • CHAPTER 6 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 7 — Reorganisation and Back to the Desert
  • CHAPTER 10 — The Syrian Holiday
  • CHAPTER 16 — Onward to Tripoli
  • CHAPTER 17 — Tunisia
  • CHAPTER 19 — Operations on the Sangro Front
  • CHAPTER 21 — Pursuit to Florence
  • CHAPTER 22 — Across the Rubicon
  • CHAPTER 24 — Over the Rivers
• Divisional Signals
  • CHAPTER 1 — Mobilisation
  • CHAPTER 3 — Western Desert Force
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Cyrenaican Offensive
  • CHAPTER 16 — Final Campaign in Africa
• Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
  • 88 — The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • 135 — The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the Governor-General of New Zealand
  • 14 March 1941
• Episodes & Studies Volume 1
  • WRENS AT WORK
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
• Episodes & Studies Volume 2
  • BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • ATTACKS ON THE GERMAN FLEET
  • THE CAMPAIGN IN NORWAY
  • THE FALL OF FRANCE
  • THE STAGE IS SET
  • THE SWITCH TO LONDON
  • Biographical Notes
  • CUTTING THE AXIS SUPPLY LINES
  • [section]
  • No. 62 (Bomber) Squadron
• Italy Volume I: The Sangro to Cassino
  • I: The Origin of dickens
  • II: Waiting For The Weather
  • I: 17 March
• Italy Volume II : From Cassino to Trieste
  • II: The Capture of Faenza
• Journey Towards Christmas
  • Chapter 5 — The Thunderstorm
  • Chapter 9 — Fox In The Fowl Run
  • (2) Working for Wavell
  • (3) Diversion to a Dragon-Slaying
  • (1) The Sangro
• Kōtare 2000, Volume Three, Number One
  • The Puritan Paradox: An Annotated Bibliography of Puritan and Anti-Puritan New Zealand Fiction, 1860-1940 — Part 1: The Puritan Legacy
• Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific
  • PART VI — HOSPITAL SHIPS — Hospital Ships
  • II: Medical Staffing
  • III: Medical Examination of Recruits
  • XII: Medical Arrangements for Home Defence Forces
  • General Index
• Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
  • CHAPTER 1 — BIRTH OF THE MEDICAL UNITS — 1939–40
  • CHAPTER 21 — CLOSING DAYS
  • 5 Field Ambulance Withdraws Towards Canea
• New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
  • 8 — The South Island
  • Town, country and bush
  • New Plymouth (1886 population, 3,093)
  • Wellington's Port Nicholson, 1885
  • The local bodies and fire control
  • Subject Index
  • C Newspapers
• New Zealand Engineers, Middle East
  • [section]
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Western Desert Railway
  • CHAPTER 10 — Neap Tide in Egypt
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. I)
  • CHAPTER 1 — The Royal Air Force and Early New Zealand Representation
  • Appendix I — Principal Events of the Second World War 1939–42
  • CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations from Britain and France
  • CHAPTER 5 — Bombing and Reconnaissance, 1940
  • CHAPTER 6 — Defeating the Night Raider
  • CHAPTER 7 — Air War at Sea
  • CHAPTER 8 — Early Bomber Offensive
  • CHAPTER 9 — The Part of No. 75 Squadron
  • CHAPTER 10 — Increasing New Zealand Participation— Formation of Nos. 485,488, and 489 Squadrons
  • CHAPTER 11 — Day Fighters, 1941
  • CHAPTER 12 — Heavier Bombing Raids—Advent of No. 487 Squadron
  • Appendix IV — Principal British and German Operational Aircraft (1939–42)
  • Index
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Vol. II)
  • CHAPTER 2 — Aircraft against U-boat
  • CHAPTER 6 — Daylight Raids by the Light Bombers
  • CHAPTER 7 — Day-Fighters and Fighter-bombers
  • CHAPTER 8 — Night Fighters
  • CHAPTER 13 — Transport and Special Duties
  • CHAPTER 14 — Bomber Command and the Battle of Germany
  • Index
• New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)
  • CHAPTER 1 — Prelude to War
  • CHAPTER 11 — Malaya, Sumatra, and Java
  • CHAPTER 2 — Early Operations over Many Fronts
  • CHAPTER 3 — Western Desert—The Second Year
  • CHAPTER 5 — Algeria and Tunisia
  • CHAPTER 9 — Beyond the Italian Battlefront
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Retreat from Burma
  • CHAPTER 13 — Fighting Back from India
  • Appendix III — PRINCIPAL OPERATIONAL AIRCRAFT OF ROYAL AIR FORCE IN MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
• Petrol Company
  • CHAPTER 8 — Crete
  • CHAPTER 11 — Back to the ‘Blue’
  • CHAPTER 13 — Eighth Army Conquers
  • CHAPTER 15 — On to Italy
• Royal New Zealand Air Force
  • DEVELOPMENT OF PERMANENT AIR FORCE
  • ORGANISATION OF THE TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE, 1930
  • EXPANSION PROGRAMMES, 1937–39
  • PACIFIC DEFENCE CONFERENCE
  • RNZAF AT OUTBREAK OF WAR
  • [section]
  • EFFECT OF PACIFIC WAR
  • GROUND TRAINING SQUADRONS
  • OUTPUT OF PILOTS TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
  • FORMATION OF NEW GENERAL RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRONS
  • OUTBREAK OF WAR WITH JAPAN
  • FORMATION OF OPERATIONAL UNITS
  • DEVELOPMENT OF REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE ORGANISATION
  • FORMATION OF BASE DEPOT, SANTO
  • establishments in new zealand, august-september 1943
  • reorganisation in 1944
  • close and tactical air support, south bougainville campaign
  • Index
• Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
  • Appendix 1 — Biographical Notes
• Sport 15: white horse black dog
  • I
  • Index of Places
  • Contributors
• Sport 2: Autumn 1989
  • Contributors
• Sport 3: Spring 1989
  • Tunes For Bears To Dance To
• Sport 6: Autumn 1991
  • Lloyd Jones — Journey Through a Painted Landscape
• Supply Company
  • CHAPTER 2 — Wavell's Campaign
  • CHAPTER 5 — Evacuation
  • CHAPTER 7 — Advance into Libya
• The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
  • 1 Brogdens' Navvies
  • 6 Oxfordshire and Wychwood Forest
  • Index of Places
  • Newspapers and Periodicals
• The Home Front Volume I
  • CHAPTER 3 — The First Moves
  • CHAPTER 12 — Defence by the People
• The Home Front Volume II
  • CHAPTER 15 — Manpower is Directed
• The New Zealand Dental Services
  • CHAPTER 1 — The Origin and Development of the New Zealand Dental Corps in the Great War, 1914–18
  • CHAPTER 6 — Organisation in New Zealand—Air Force
  • In exile, 1922–33
  • Organisation
• The Pacific
  • IV: Negotiations—Political and Service
  • II: The Treasuries
  • IV: The Capture of Green Islands
  • II: The Air Force Story
• The Relief of Tobruk
  • CHAPTER 6 — From Baggush to the Libyan Frontier
  • CHAPTER 12 — The Matruh Stakes
  • Glossary
  • Index
• The Royal New Zealand Navy
  • CHAPTER 26 — Recruiting and Training
  • CHAPTER 21 — Battles for the Solomons
  • CHAPTER 24 — With the British Pacific Fleet
  • CHAPTER 29 — New Zealanders in the Royal Navy
• To Greece
  • CHAPTER 2 — The Second Echelon
  • Air Support
  • Mackay Force bolds up the German Advance
  • Movements to and from Servia Pass
  • Action is taken to prevent the Parachute Troops moving South
  • The German Advanced Guard enters Kalamata
• War Economy
  • Pre-war Defence Construction
  • Details of Public Works Expenditure
• Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows
  • The Relocation of Railway Hut 49

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• 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

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For several reasons, including lack of resource and inherent ambiguity, not all names in the NZETC collections are marked-up. This means that finding all references to a topic often involves searching. Search for Blenheim as: "Blenheim". Additional references are often found by searching for just the main name of the topic (the surname in the case of people).

Other Collections

The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Blenheim":

• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
• Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
• National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
• nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

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