- Anson, T.V. The New Zealand dental services
- Official war history. Read an online edition of this book at NZETC New Zealand Official War Histories.
- Cocks, E.M.S. Kia kaha: life at 3 New Zealand General Hospital, 1940-1946
- The author, a member of the hospital’s nursing staff, describes time in Egypt, Syria, Tripolitania and Italy.
- Gillespie, O. Shovel, sword and scalpel
- Medical units of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific. Read an online edition of this book at NZETC New Zealand Official War Histories.
- Green, A.T. Tell our story: World War II in North Africa: a history of the New Zealand 6th Field Ambulance
- McKinney, J.B. Medical units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
- Official war history. Read an online edition of this book at NZETC New Zealand Official War Histories.
- Kendall, S. New Zealand military nursing: a history of the Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps
- Chs. 11-12 cover World War 2. Roll of New Zealand Army Nursing Service, pp. 153-165, including name, service number, where trained, date of registration, service details and awards. Roll of married names, pp. 166-7. List of those who served with QAIMNS, p. 167. Ch. 13: WAAC: roll of those who served in Medical Division in Egypt and Italy, pp. 171-9.
- McLeave, H. McIndoe, plastic surgeon
- Between 1940 and 1945 McIndoe performed over 4500 operations on RAF airmen whose faces, hands and bodies had been badly mutilated by battle. Chs. 7-14 cover the war years.
- Mosley, L. Faces from the fire: the biography of Sir Archibald McIndoe
- Chs. 4-8 cover the war years.
- O’Carroll, B. Khaki angels: Kiwi stretcher-bearers in the first and second world wars, 2009
- World War 2: pp. 82-191. Includes biographical information and reminiscences of Denis Bounsall, Jim Coomber, Murray Reid, Wally Stokes, Arnold Swanton, Pat Gourdie, Jim Sloan, Samuel Thompson.
- Rogers, A. While you’re away: New Zealand nurses at war, 1899-1948
- Chs. 12-18 cover the second World War. There is information on VADs, work on hospital ships, work in North Africa, Greece and Crete, Italy, the Pacific and Japan. Ch. 18 features New Zealand nurses who served with foreign nursing services. Based on personal reminiscences, letters and diaries as well as official material. The book is indexed and includes a detailed bibliography.
- Shackleton, M. Desert Surgeons: New Zealand's Mobile Surgical Unit in World War II
- Stahl, E. My ten happy years in the navy nursing service, 1938-1948
- Describes her work as a nurse in the Royal New Zealand Navy, including wartime experiences.
- Stout, T.D.M. Medical services in New Zealand and the Pacific in the Royal New Zealand Navy, Royal New Zealand Air Force and with prisoners of war
- Official war history. Read an online edition of this book at NZETC New Zealand Official War Histories.
- Stout, T.D.M. War surgery and medicine
- Official war history. Read an online edition of this book at NZETC New Zealand Official War Histories
- Treanor, K.R. The staff, serpent and the sword: 100 years of the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps, 2008
- Chapters 11-17: World War II. Includes chapters on mobilisation and Egypt; Greece and Crete; Middle East; Italy; Pacific; at home and hospital ships; prisoners of war.
- The VAD years, 1939-1972
- War years, pp. 4-38, in New Zealand and overseas. Includes recollections of Kathleen Davies, Gloria Gavan, Jane Southern, Maragret Knights, Lilian Crewe, Maragaret Tait (McNeill), Gwen Ager (Seabrook), Te Kiato Riwai, Elsie Douglas, Constance Deans (Gilbert), Dorothy Browne (Ball), Dorothy McMillan, Dorothy Wales.
- Willis, L.I.G. A nurse remembers
- Ida Willis was matron-in-chief of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service, 1933-1946. She co-ordinated the wartime operations of the 650 registered nurses who served in the forces in New Zealand and overseas during the war.
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