Auckland Museum Data Insights
Data Insights
Discovering stories in our data.
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Discovering stories in our data.
The age at which New Zealand service personnel died. The youngest are two 15-year-olds: Thomas Dennis Burke and Edward Hugh Walls were aboard the SS Port Hunter when it was torpedoed on the July 11, 1945.
A sampling of enlistment dates. The second spike, just before Christmas 1916, corresponds with the introduction of conscription.
During the First World War, 10,000 horses were transported from New Zealand. Using data from Cenotaph we can see that approximately 30 per cent of all troopship cargo was equine.
Manuscript Collections Timeline
Using a selection of records containing time-span data from the Manuscripts collection, we can see that the collection ranges across almost 200 years of New Zealand history.
This calendar shows at a glance that between June and November of 1916, there was only one day on which New Zealand did not suffer a war casualty.