Recommended Reading and Viewing
Books
Brocker, Susan, Brave Bess and the ANZAC Horses, Auckland: HarperCollins, 2010.
Kinloch, Terry, Devils on Horses: in the words of the ANZACS in the Middle East 1916-19, Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010.
Mackay, Don, The Troopers’ Tale: the history of the Otago Mounted Rifles, Gore: Turnbull Ross Pub., 2012.
Mincham, Carolyn, Attitude & Heart: the horse in New Zealand, Auckland: David Bateman, 2011.
Wilson, Marcus J, The Good Steed - The Experience of New Zealand's Military Horse during the Anglo Boer War and World War I
May 20 2008
Mather, Jill, Gallipoli's War Horses from the Dardanelles to Damascus
Waler Book Trust, Australia,214
Moore, A. Briscoe, The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine: the story of New Zealand’s crusaders, Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1920.
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-WH1MRif.html
Nichol, C.G., The Story of Two Campaigns: official war history of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment, 1914-1919, Auckland: Wilson & Horton, 1921. http://nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Stor.html
Photo above:
Members of the Mounted Rifles Regiment in Nelson during World War 1.
Photo by Frederick Nelson Jones, 1881-1962.
Negatives of the Nelson district. Ref: 1/2-026531-G.
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.
www.natlib.govt.nz/records/23081874
Powles, C.G., The History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, 1914-1919, Christchurch: Kiwi Pub., 2001.
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi.html
Wilkie, A.H., Official War History of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, 1914-1919, Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1924.
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Moun.html
Wilson, Marcus, ‘A History of New Zealand’s Military Horse: with special reference to the Anglo-Boer War and World War One’, MA thesis, Canterbury, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/959
Websites
Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand: First World War http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/first-world-war
Auckland War Memorial Museum http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/
National Army Museum http://www.armymuseum.co.nz/kiwis-at-war/
New Zealand History Online http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/first-world-war#
Specifically about the horses http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/nz-first-world-war-horses
New Zealand Mounted Rifles Association http://www.nzmr.org
WW100 New Zealand http://ww100.govt.nz/
DVD
All the King’s Horses. A documentary written and produced by Paul Sanderson.
For sale for $38 at Sanderson China & Pottery, The Mill, 1473 Main North Rd Waikuku, North Canterbury
Phone: 03 3127 978