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• Kelvin Grove Cemetery

• Last man out of Freetown: Lieutenant Colonel John Dyer’s experiences in Sierra Leone

  Lieutenant Colonel (retired) John Dyer, NZGD, was born in Gisborne and joined the New Zealand Army in 1981. He trained as an officer and served for 20 years. Together with training deployments to...

• Research about New Zealand's nuclear veterans

  Events, research, and reports are displayed chronologically from oldest to most recent.  Jump to the most recent report Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the occupation of Japan Dropping of atomic bombs,...

• First World War (worldwide)

• Veterans' Affairs spends $650,000 on funerals and cemetery work

  We have installed nearly 700 new headstones and plaques for veterans in New Zealand this year and spent more than $650,000 overall on funerals, memorials, and maintenance work in cemeteries. We have...

• The New Zealand Liberation Museum opens in France

  On 11 October 2023, in Le Quesnoy, a small town in northern France, the New Zealand Liberation Museum — Te Arawhata, was opened by the Rt Hon. Sir Jerry Mateparae and Marie-Sophie Lesne, the Mayor of...

• 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings

  Thursday 6 June 2019, marks the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings — also known as D-Day. New Zealand’s National Commemoration will be occur inside the Hall of Memories at Pukeahu National War...

• Waimate North Cemetery

• The Coastwatchers of Tarawa, Kiribati

  In October 1942, seventeen New Zealand coastwatchers on the Tarawa atoll, in the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati) were murdered by the Japanese occupiers. Coastwatchers were military and civilian...

• 100 Years of Poppy Day

  In 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian medical officer, conducted the funeral service of a friend who had died in the Second Battle of Ypres. Close by poppies blew in the breeze, a symbol...