The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914–1915

List of Illustrations

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List of Illustrations

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Hoisting the Flag, Apia, 30th August, 1914 Frontispiece
Lord Liverpool announcing the Declaration of War 14
Colonels Robert Logan, C.B., A.D.C., N.Z.S.C. 16
N.Z. Railway Engineers parading at Wellington, nth August, 1914 19
Lt.-Col. C. Harcourt Turner, O.C., 5th (Wellington) Regiment 24
T. Brig.-General H. T. Fulton, D.S.O., C.M.G., C. de G., O.C., 3rd
(Auckland) Regiment
25
Are We Downhearted? 31
Painting Ship 32
Route Taken by the Samoan Expeditionary Force, August, 1914
(Map)
34
Upolu, showing various Points of Contemplated Attack (Map) 36
Washing Day 38
First Sight of Land, Noumea, New Caledonia 40
First Greetings from Noumea 40
The Montcalm 40
Noumea 40
New Zealanders ashore at Noumea, New Caledonia 44
Noumea, showing Escort 45
Coaling Ship at Noumea 46
Dropping the Pilot at Noumea 48
Suva, Fiji 51
Apia and Environs (Map) 56
Anxious Moments—Troops awaiting Reply to Summons to Surrender 57
The Arrival of the Expedition off Apia, 29th August, 1914 58
The Summons to Surrender 59
The Landing 60
The Flag Ashore 61
Awaiting Orders to Advance on Apia 62
The Advance on Apia. Troops in front of the Government Offices 62
Bombs prepared by German Staff for Destruction of Wireless Station 63
Proclamation dated 29th August, 1914 65 page 7
"Vailima," the home and death-place of Robert Louis Stevenson 67
Hqrs. of late German Firm (D.H. & P.G.), now the Apia Hotel 69
View of Apia Harbour from the above 69
Wireless Locomotive—Converted from Sea-going Engine 72
Racecourse Camp, August, 1914 74
Malifa Camp—5th (Wellington) Regiment on parade 74
Samoan Police 75
Third Aucklanders and their Barracks at Vaea 76
The Signallers 79
Coastal Scene 80
A Daily Sight at the Hospital 83
New Zealand Medical Corp 89
Apia Hospital 84
Captain William Henry Dillon Bell 88
The Civil Staff, 1914 89
Sample Administration Treasury Note 91
Sample of overprinted German stamps 92
German Ships in Apia Harbour (showing Scharnhorst) 93
"D" Battery 97
New Zealand Field Engineers 97
Early Morning Route Marches 99
Typical Coconut Plantations 100
Vaea Camp 102
"D" Battery Camp 102
Sketches from "The Pull Thro'" 110
Transport 113
The Mounted Patrol 113
Fifth (Wellington) Machine Gunners 115
Fifth (Wellington) Regimental Band 118
Troops playing Bowls with Breadfruit 118
Christmas Cheer 121
Noumea Heads 123
Apia Wireless Station 125
The Wireless Garrison 126
Samoa's War Graves: Members of the Samoan Relief Forces 128
The Regimental Band's last Good-bye 130
Embarking for Home—Tofa, Samoa 131