"Kiwi". www.doc.govt.nz. New Zealand Department of Conservation. Retrieved 4 June 2017. New Zealanders have been called 'Kiwis' since the nickname was bestowed by Australian soldiers in the First World War.
Kiwi Chalk Figure above Bulford Camp "Members of the Canterbury, Otago and Wellington Battalions under Captain Harry Clark created a chalk figure of a kiwi bird in the nearby hillside in April–June 1919 by removing 12in of top soil and replacing it with chalk pebbles. The kiwi was designed by Sergeant Major Percy Blenkarne, a drawing instructor in the New Zealand Army Education Corps."