Project: Documentary
Role: Researcher, Writer, Presenter, Director, Producer
Client: NZ Herald
Company: Homegrown Television
The Herald hosts all the stories here (including a piece about the future NZ museum, which is now out of date given the museum was completed five years later).
The Battle: A week before World War One ended, the New Zealand Division, on its own, liberated the northern French town of Le Quesnoy from German occupation. The walled medieval town needed a medieval answer to get inside. A ladder.
2nd Lieutenant Leslie Averill: Scaling a 13 metre medieval wall by ladder, into an enemy occupied town in WW I, is not for the faint hearted.
Reverend Clive Mortimer Jones: The role of a WW I chaplain was a challenging one.
Sergeant Reginald Hird: A story about how love can bloom even in the horrors of war time, half a world apart.
The Auckland Grammar School Fallen: Auckland Grammar School had 1500 masters and old boys leave NZ shores to serve overseas in WW I - 309 of them would never return. Arthur Daw and Robert Kennedy were two of them.