In this section dealing with personalities of the 29th New Zealand Battalion it has been the aim to record a few facts about the main commanding officers, to mention the doctors and padres who have shared the battalion's lot, and to set on record some of the occurences by which other officers and men will be remembered. Perhaps to some the notes will mean little, but most of the 29th were there. They will be delighted to tell you about it.

It is inevitable that such a summary, undertaken at a late stage in the battalion's history, should be noteworthy for its countless omissions. And then again, with the unit long maintaining a static role, it has come about that many who were once part of the 29th heritage have made their names elsewhere, in the Middle East or with the Fijians in some of the toughest campaigning of the Solomons.