THE DETAIL/RNZ The Detail looks at the struggle to rewrite NZ's war history in the Pacific to include the coastwatchers' stories and their dangerous and lonely work. A memorial commemorating New Zealand’s relationship to the Pacific Islands, and Pacific war service, is to be unveiled at an upcoming ceremony. During World War I, the New Zealand Tunnelling Company – who were the first Kiwis to reach the Western Front – completed two vast quarry networks underneath the city of Arras, in northern France. Post-WWII the tunnels were closed, but sometime after they were rediscovered in 1990, a conch shell was found near a pillar inscribed by Private Angene Angene.