This is my story about the soldiers

It was a scary and horrifying night when we landed on the beaches of Gallipoli.As we hopped out of the Airship I could feel the sand squishing onto my boot like the sun had melted it before it even hit dark.The sea was rolling in and out and the tide was coming in and out like there was a plug in the ocean and it would come out and that ment that the tide was out.

I am a soldier from a little place called N.Z.The war I am going to fight is in a place called Gallipoli.On our way here our captains were publishing long lists of the dead and wounded soldiers.After a few days when we landed 2 captains came together and they had a bet who ever wins a fight they get their victory.

Three months after the first New Zealanders landed a man named Frank Hunt arrived.As he hopped out of his boat he was hit with a peice of sharpne (Flying Metal) and was carried down to the beach and put on the heap of dead people.

As the sun rose and glittered down onto the ground all I could see was blood and a heap of dead people.Once I stepped out of our trench all I could see was this rifle shoot past me like a shooting star.Once I saw my friend get shot by a shooting rifle all I wanted to do was go back home.I could feel a shiver of fear and frightened shoot up my spine.

The New Zealand Wars were fought between 1845 and 1872. They were about who controlled the country and who owned the land. When Europeans arrived, Māori had already been in Aotearoa for more than five hundred years. New Zealand may have looked wild and uninhabited to the first Europeans, but this was misleading. Every part of the country was divided among iwi, hapū, and whānau. In each place, someone had the right to grow kūmara, gather fern-root, take birds or timber, or catch fish. Organised groups of settlers started arriving in New Zealand shortly after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. Most of these people came from the British Isles in search of a better life. At first, they lived in a handful of small coastal towns: Auckland, Wellington, Whanganui, Nelson, and New Plymouth. Māori outnumbered Pākehā, and British power and influence over the country was limited. Then, less than five years after the treaty was signed, a Māori leader decided to put British power to the test.