Presentation by leading New Zealand military historian Professor Glyn Harper.
In conjunction with exhibition Featherston Camp 1916-2016: The Record of a Remarkable Achievement.
'Triumph and Tragedy: the New Zealand Division in 1917 and three battles'
Refreshments will be served.
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Glyn Harper is Professor of War Studies at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He is Massey’s Project Manager of the Centenary History of New Zealand and the First World War and has just completed one of the volumes of this history. A former teacher, Glyn joined the Australian Army in 1988 and after eight years transferred to the New Zealand Army, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Glyn was the army's official historian for the deployment to East Timor.
Glyn is the author of more than twenty history books which include Kippenberger: An Inspired New Zealand Commander; In the Face of the Enemy: The complete history of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand; Dark Journey: Three Key Battles of the Western Front; Images of War: World War One: A Photographic Record of New Zealanders at War 1914-1918 and his most recent, before Johnny Enzed being The Battles of Monte Cassino. Glyn is also an award winning children’s author having written ten children's books, of which Roly the Anzac Donkey and Jim's Letters are the most recently published.