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• The Veterans’ Entitlements Appeal Board Decision in the case of Tā Harawira Gardiner

  The Veterans’ Entitlements Appeal Board (the VEAB) has issued its decision on an appeal that it has been considering on a claim made by the late Tā Harawira Gardiner. Read the Veterans’ Entitlement...

• More entitlements and support for children of Jayforce and Mururoa veterans

  Veterans’ Affairs has moved to ensure access to more support for the children of Jayforce and Mururoa veterans. Nuclear radiation is a risk that New Zealand service people have been exposed to on...

• 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...

• Lives lost during pandemic more than 100 years ago honoured by NZDF

  When members of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles returned to Gallipoli in 1918 to recover and bury their dead, they faced a new enemy in the form of influenza. More than 104 years on and in the shadow...

• VAB Report: Recognition of service people through burial and memorialisation

  This report sets out the principles that the Veterans' Advisory Board (Board) considers should underpin the recognition of service in New Zealand through the burial and memorialisation of service...

• Donate objects to the National Army Museum

  Since the 1970s, people have been entrusting their tangible history of service in the New Zealand Army to the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa (NAM). The museum’s collection is almost entirely...

• Service on the Sinai Peninsula

• A tewhatewha design for Veterans' Affairs

  To honour our Māori veterans and our korero with them, Veterans’ Affairs has created a tewhatewha-inspired design. A tewhatewha (teff-ah teff-ah) is a long-handled fighting staff that was used in...

• Our tewhatewha Māori design (Tohu)

  To honour our Māori veterans and our korero with them, Veterans’ Affairs has created a tewhatewha-inspired design. A tewhatewha (teff-ah teff-ah) is a long-handled fighting staff that was used in...

• Return to the Mekong River

  Former LT Dean Whaanga served with the Royal New Zealand Navy. He was deployed to Cambodia from June 1992 to March 1993 as part of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). His...