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Museums and archives (6)

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph

Held at: aucklandmuseum.com/online-cenotaph and api.aucklandmuseum.com
What we took: Names, service numbers, ranks, embarkation units, ships, voyages, fate, death dates and resting places for the WW1 roll; Source A for the ship audit.
Used on: The Anzacs Roll Call, soldier pages, The Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call, Ship audit, Remembered, signs and prints
Licence: CC BY 4.0 with credit. WW2 full data requested from the museum, October 2026.

National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy

Held at: Troopships departed NZ WW1
What we took: Troopship departures, Source B for dual-source ship ticks.
Used on: Ship audit, Sources, Media
Licence: Cited with link and credit.

Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Held at: collections.archives.govt.nz
What we took: Digitised WW1 personnel files referenced and linked for individual soldiers.
Used on: Home, The Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call, soldier pages such as Meadowcroft and Barty
Licence: Linked and cited; files are read on Archives NZ.

National Library of New Zealand: Papers Past

Held at: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
What we took: Period newspaper reports used as citations in soldier biographies.
Used on: About 50 soldier pages such as Allen and Barty
Licence: Cited with link to each article.

Massey University Research Online

Held at: mro.massey.ac.nz
What we took: Russell, Brigadier Stanley Crump (MA thesis, 2022) for career detail.
Used on: Crump
Licence: Cited with link.

22nd Battalion website

Held at: 22battalion.org.nz
What we took: Biographical detail for 22 Battalion men.
Used on: Andrew and other officer pages
Licence: Cited with link.

New Zealand government (8)

LINZ Basemaps

Held at: basemaps.linz.govt.nz
What we took: Aerial photo tiles shown live on each cemetery page.
Used on: Cemetery Directory
Licence: Imagery: LINZ, CC BY 4.0.

Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)

Held at: LINZ Data Service
What we took: NZ Cemetery Points and Polygons (Topo50), and NZ Suburbs and Localities for the town and city beside each cemetery, and NZ Addresses for cemetery street addresses.
Used on: The Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call, The Anzacs Roll Call grave view, The Anzacs WW2 Roll Call, soldier pages
Licence: CC BY 4.0 with credit, via our LINZ API key.

Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa

Held at: Stats NZ boundaries (ArcGIS)
What we took: Regional Council 2025, Territorial Authority 2025 and Urban Rural 2026 boundaries to give each cemetery a region and district.
Used on: The Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call, cemetery directory
Licence: CC BY 4.0 with credit.

Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage: NZHistory

Held at: nzhistory.govt.nz
What we took: Campaign history, timelines and the Crawford and Buck Gallipoli estimate (Phenomenal and Wicked).
Used on: Anzac Day, Gallipoli Uncovered, Sources, Ship audit, soldier pages
Licence: Cited with link; text not copied.

Manatū Taonga: Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Held at: teara.govt.nz
What we took: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entries and the WW2 casualties table.
Used on: Officer and VC pages, WW2 audit
Licence: Cited with link.

WW100 (First World War Centenary Programme)

Held at: ww100.govt.nz
What we took: How many New Zealanders served on Gallipoli.
Used on: Sources, Ship audit, Media
Licence: Cited with link.

Ministry of Education: Aotearoa Histories

Held at: aotearoahistories.education.govt.nz
What we took: Curriculum framing for the schools kit.
Used on: Gallipoli Uncovered
Licence: Cited with link.

New Zealand Parliament

Held at: parliament.nz
What we took: Parliament's WW1 timeline and the declaration of war.
Used on: Gallipoli Uncovered fact sheets
Licence: Cited with link.

Councils (5)

Christchurch City Council

Held at: CCC open data (GreenAsset)
What we took: Cemetery and burial records with plot details for Christchurch cemeteries.
Used on: The Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call, The Anzacs Roll Call grave view
Licence: CC BY 4.0 open data.

Marlborough District Council

Held at: Marlborough open data
What we took: Cemetery and burial records with plot details.
Used on: The Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call, The Anzacs Roll Call grave view
Licence: CC BY 4.0 open data.

Palmerston North City Council

Held at: Palmy GeoHub
What we took: Cemetery and plot locations.
Used on: The Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call
Licence: CC BY 4.0 open data.

Auckland Council

Held at: Find a burial or cremation
What we took: Manual plot checks only, and the search link on each Auckland cemetery.
Used on: The Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call
Licence: Manual lookups only; no automated collection. Bulk export requested, October 2026.

All 67 territorial authorities

Held at: Each council’s own website
What we took: Council website, main phone and general email for the local council shown on each cemetery page, where we could read them from the council site.
Used on: Cemetery Directory
Licence: Public contact details, each linked to the page it came from.

International (8)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)

Held at: cwgc.org
What we took: Totals of NZ WW2 war dead by service, unit, squadron and cemetery; links out to individual casualty records.
Used on: WW2 audit, soldier pages
Licence: Aggregate counts only; names not republished. Licence requested, October 2026.

Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia): Anzac Portal

Held at: anzacportal.dva.gov.au
What we took: Anzac Day history; NZ Gallipoli figure corrected after our audit.
Used on: Anzac Day, Audit trail, Media
Licence: Cited with link; correspondence with DVA.

UNSW Canberra (ADFA): AIF and NZEF Project

Held at: nzef.adfa.edu.au
What we took: Unit and soldier pages, used only where a squadron is named.
Used on: The Anzacs Roll Call SQN field, soldier pages
Licence: Cited with link.

The National Archives (UK)

Held at: Discovery
What we took: Medal card references for the planned UK roll.
Used on: Media: The Tommies, Audit trail
Licence: Open Government Licence; approach made, October 2026.

Australian War Memorial

Held at: awm.gov.au
What we took: Gallipoli encyclopedia entries such as the drip rifle.
Used on: Gallipoli Uncovered fact sheets
Licence: Cited with link.

Çanakkale Wars and Gallipoli Historical Site Directorate (Türkiye)

Held at: canakkaletarihialan.gov.tr
What we took: Anzac Cove measurements.
Used on: Gallipoli Uncovered fact sheets
Licence: Cited with link.

World Rugby

Held at: Law 1: The Ground
What we took: Field length used for scale comparisons.
Used on: Gallipoli Uncovered fact sheets
Licence: Cited with link.

Wairarapa 100

Held at: Voyaging to war in 1914
What we took: Official men and horses carried on Main Body ships.
Used on: Ship audit
Licence: Cited with link.

Open data (4)

OpenStreetMap

Held at: openstreetmap.org via the Overpass API
What we took: Cemetery addresses, operators, websites, faiths and opening dates where mapped.
Used on: Cemetery Directory
Licence: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Wikidata

Held at: wikidata.org and query service
What we took: Starting WW2 roll: names, ranks, units and resting places; council phone and email where a council site could not be read.
Used on: The Anzacs WW2 Roll Call
Licence: CC0, free to republish.

Wikimedia Commons (State Library of Queensland collection)

Held at: commons.wikimedia.org
What we took: Troopship photographs.
Used on: Ships, Ship audit
Licence: Public domain or licence shown on each file.

Wikipedia

Held at: en.wikipedia.org
What we took: Background for officer and VC biographies, checked against primary records.
Used on: Officer and VC pages
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0; cited with link.

Related pages

Sources · Audit trail · Ship audit · The Anzacs Cemetery Roll Call · WW2 audit