Kammala wannan jumla: Tun farkon shekarar 1915, Gwamnatin New Zealand ta yarda cewa za a samar da tarihin hukuma don yin rikodin gudummawar rundunar New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) zuwa Yaƙin Duniya na Farko. Wakilin yakin basasa, Malcolm Ross, an ba shi aikin tattara kayan tarihi da za a buƙaci. Ross, kwararren dan jarida wanda ya ruwaito a kan
kama Samoa a farkon yakin, ya kasance a Gallipoli tare da Charles Bean, wakilin yaki na Australia, kuma zai kuma lura da Rukunin New Zealand yayin yaƙe-yaƙe a Yammacin Yamma.