New Zealand soldiers with captured German flag, First World War, 1914, (c1920). 'New Zealand's War Trophy: Members of the Expeditionary Force with the German flag which they hauled down in Samoa'. In August 1914, an expeditionary force from New Zealand (the Samoa Expeditionary Force) landed and took possession of the Pacific colony of German Samoa. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume II, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]