Shared Histories was set up by The Ministry of Education (NZ) and le Ministère de l'Education Nationale (France) to raise awareness among students in both New Zealand and France of the contribution of the New Zealand Division who fought on the Western Front during the Great War.

Under this initiative, six New Zealand students traveled to northern France in July to be hosted by their French counterparts who had visited New Zealand earlier in the year, and to follow in the footsteps of ancestors who fought, and in several cases died, on foreign soil.

A small film crew accompanied the New Zealanders in France to create an educational resource for NZ teachers, Sur le chemin de nos ancêtres, as the young students visited former battlefields and recounted their stories of ancestors who
fought in the war.

In addition to the French subtitled version available here, teachers are invited to contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for a DVD with 2 alternative versions: without subtitles and with English subtitles.

Eleana Hill, Emma Hartshaw, Jeremy Wright

Katie Sullivan, Rebecca Farquhar, Shani McMullin

Aurelie Bonaventure, Adrien Pecher, Alan Shultz

Camille Fournier, Cassidy Zakrzewski, Eliott Lemaitre

Emma Doutreligne, Inès Nogueira, Julie Catteau

Virginie Favreuil

Newlands College, Wellington - Sacred Heart Girls’ School, Hamilton

Shirley Boys’ High School, Christchurch - Wellington Girls’ College

Cashmere High School, Christchurch

Lycée Guy Mollet, Arras - Lycée Pierre Mendès France, Péronne

En Nouvelle-Zélande : 

Anna Tiaki, Annabelle Sinclair, Bridget Hargreaves

Chris Sinclair, Gaylene Preston, Jason Hansen

Jonathan Belczacki, Nicole Hutchinson, Pascale Seignolles

Peter & Diane Rewi, Raynald Belay, Ruth Lewis

Stéphane Ré, Winston Roberts, Jenny Caldwell

Cohen Geddes

En France : 

Alexandre Lafon, André Ballekens et la commune de Phalempin

Bertrand Belvalette, Cécile Rancy, Christian Fournier

Col. Bernard Maury, Delphine Quéant, Freddy Declerck

Hervé Copin (Maire de Gommecourt), Isabelle Pilarowski

Jany Fournier (Maire de Longueval), Marie-Sophie Lesne (Maire de Le Quesnoy)

Michel Jollivet et la commune de Neuillé-Pont-Pierre

Valérie Guyon et la commune de St-Nizier-le-Bouchoux

Association Le Quesnoy-Nouvelle Zélande - Carrière Wellington, Arras

Christchurch Public Library - Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Embassy of New Zealand, France - Flanders Field Museum, Ypres

Historial de Péronne

New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2017-2018 directed by Dr Andrew Withington

Office National des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre (Pas de Calais)

Rangiurunga Urupā, Pāpāwai - Royal New Zealand Airforce Band

The Dub Shop, Wellington - Veterans Affairs Canada

Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfüsorge

Anzac Day Hymn Chanson de Craonne

music by Colin Gibson performed by Marc Ogeret

arranged by Jonathan Besser Songs of Revolt and Hope

© Bushcraft 2008 Disques Vogue 1973

De Liège: In Festo Sanctissimae Trinitatis RIC 249

Invitatorium : Deum Verum

Psallentes, Hendrik Vanden Abeele

© 2006 Outhere ℗ 2006

Hoki Mai & Po Atarau

performed by St Joseph's Maori Girls' Choir

"Waiata Aroha, Maori Songs of Love"  VPS492 CD

www.vikingsevenseas.co.nz

Epic Cinematic & Hopeful New Dawn, Daylight Savings,

composed & performed Converging Lines composed

by Scot Holmes & performed by David Hiliwitz

Für Elise, Ludwig van Beethoven

performed by Gaylene Preston                    

Harmonica music

played by Toby Laing

Photograph of Jules Monge painting by François Antoine Vizzavona

by permission of Agence Photo,

Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais

Jack Hunter photograph by permission Elizabeth Portas

Leslie Heron Beauchamp watercolour image by C. Lafayette.

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Leslie Heron Beauchamp photograph,

Waitaki District Archive, New Zealand

Poem “To L.H.B (1894-1915)”

from Poems by Katherine Mansfield, Constable, London 1923