David Littlewood is a lecturer in history in Massey University’s School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication, and has been the Manawatū campus offering co-ordinator for Tū Rangaranga: Global Encounters since 2019. His research focuses on how involvement in the two world wars impacted on New Zealand society. His first book was Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great War: Determining the fate of Britain’s and New Zealand’s conscripts (Routledge, 2018), and he is currently working on a follow-up that analyses New Zealanders’ experiences of conscription during the Second World War.