The New Zealand Army's history : from the Veld to Italy. Part 4, Samoa and Palestine.

Dr Laurie Barber of the University of Waikato begins by explaining how New Zealand forces were asked by Britain to seize the German colony of Samoa. On the 29th August they landed at Apia where the German governor surrendered and the colonial German administration was left in place. Two German ships the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau appeared in Apia harbour but did not fire on the five hundred New Zealand forces lined up on the beach. He describes the problems the army faced in the tropical environment.

In the Middle East, troopers from the New Zealand Mounted Rifles were organised into a brigade to serve in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. He reads a description of the attack on the Katia oasis by Major J.H. Luxford.
The Imperial Camel Corps also had two New Zealand companies. He reads a description by John Robertson of the Camel Corps Brigade and describes the increasing use of the new Vickers machine guns by mounted machine gun units in the desert, at battles at Romani and Rafa.

New Zealanders entered Jerusalem and at the end of the war the Canterbury Mounted Rifles were ordered to Gallipoli to search for remains and bury them.