A Kiwi at War: Gallery

A page of a letter from Barbara to Bill Smith.

Assortment of papers and small items from the W. M. Smith personal collection.  MUS0501035

A page from Bill Smith's Prisoner of War Diary.

Medal group belonging to Warrant Officer William Milner Smith, NZ417294.  1999/195.3

L-R: 1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, New Zealand War Service Medal

Lancaster bomber displaying severe flak damage after a bombing raid.  MUS050181

Newspaper clipping showing Bill Smith (front, second from left) with some friends at the Maple Leaf Club in New York, following graduation from No. 4 Air Observers’ School in Canada, August 1942.  1999/195.14cj

A Kiwi at War is our latest online exhibition. Follow Bill Smith's story of bravery, capture and hard-won freedom through his detailed diaries and letters and discover what it was like to be a Kiwi at War.

Photo of Bill Smith, taken after he was captured and interrogated at Dulag Luft, Germany.  MUS080057

The telegram received by Bill Smith's mother, Mrs Alice Smith, informing her her son was missing.

Bill's plans for the house he would build to live in with his fiancee, Clare, when he returned to New Zealand.

Ground crew “bombing up” a Lancaster in readiness for a night raid on Germany.  ALB93373026