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ANZAC Day 2009
Auckland Museum was built as a memorial to the 12,000 people from the Auckland province who died in the first and second world wars. Every year, Auckland War Memorial Museum, the RSA and Auckland City Council mark ANZAC day with a series of services and commemorative events.
This year the Museum will again open immediately after the dawn service, enabling Aucklanders to further commemorate the day. No donation will be requested.
Illuminate: Names of the Fallen
Wednesday 22, Thursday 23, Friday 24 April, 7.30pm-11pm
Northern Façade
The centrepiece of this year’s Auckland War Memorial Museum ANZAC commemorations is the free Illuminate event. Contemplate the sacrifice of our young nation as the names of the 29,898 New Zealanders who have died while serving their country – from the Anglo-Boer War to recent peace keeping missions – scroll across the northern façade of the Museum.
Visitors are invited to watch the names from the steps of the Cenotaph and then come inside the Museum to sign a digital Book of Remembrance and look up relatives' war records on the Museum's Cenotaph Database. A licensed coffee cart will be open selling hot drinks and refreshments. Activities are also available to keep the children entertained.
Names of the Fallen:
Day 1
Anglo-Boer (238) – All names
World War I (9770) – Abbot to Martin
Day 2
World War I (7723) – Martin to Zorn
World War II (2266) – Abbot to Cosgriff
Day 3
World War II (9846) – Cosgrove to Zohrab
Malaya (5) – All names
Korea (39) – All names
Vietnam (42) – All names
Other Conflicts (7) – All names. |
ANZAC Day Programme
Saturday 25 April |
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| 6am |
Dawn Service, Cenotaph |
| 6.45am |
Museum opens to the public |
| 6.45am-5pm |
Sign the digital Book of Remembrance, Grand Foyer and The Armoury, 2nd floor.
Research family in the military using the Cenotaph database and the Armoury Information Centre.
Medals and badges; have them photographed for Cenotaph, identified and talk about their significance
Slide shows from the collections: Information centres. |
| 8.00am |
Andrews Sisters, Atrium |
| 9.00am |
Guided tours Scars on the Heart galleries. Meet Armoury Information Centre |
| 9.00am-5 pm |
Displays and Demonstrations International Plastic Modellers Society. Armoury Information Centre |
| 11am |
Public Commemorative Service |
| 10.45am |
Grand Foyer closes |
| 11am |
Civic Service, Cenotaph |
| 12pm |
Foyer reopens |
| 12.30pm |
Nurse Lottie, Scars on the Heart I |
| 1pm |
‘Lest We Forget’ Poetry Competition finalists, World War II Hall of Memories |
| 2pm |
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Wind Ensemble, World War II Hall of Memories |
| 2.30pm |
Nurse Lottie, Scars on the Heart I |
| 3.15pm |
Bugler William Gunson plays wartime favourites and commemorative pieces, Grand Foyer. |
Auditorium Programme |
| 1.00 pm |
Illustrated talk: Compulsory Military Training in New Zealand 1949 on Brodie Adamson, researcher, History Department, University of Auckland. |
| 1.40 pm |
“Illustrated talk: Finding your relatives - early NZ military records. Historian and writer John Binsley. Auditorium. |
| 2.10 pm |
Illustrated talk: WW1, British, Australian, NZers, Fijians, Samoans, Nuieans - Pacific men going to war. Christine Liava’a convener of NZ Soc. Genealogists Pacific Island interest group. |
| 2.40 pm |
Illustrated talk: Textiles at war in the Museum collections. Rose Young, Curator Social History. |
| 3.10 pm |
Illustrated talk: WW2. Oral history and the Pacific theatre. Megan Hutching, oral historian. | |
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Cenotaph Database
Click here to for biographical and service details for over 115,000 New Zealand service men and women from the 19th century till today and especially from World War One and World War Two. Search the database. |
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Book of Remembrance
Please place a message in our Book of Remembrance to remember the people who served and died in War. Your memorial message, message of peace, prayer or poems will be posted here for people around New Zealand and the world to read.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Post Message here or place your messages at the Remembrance desks in the Museum Foyer and Armoury from 21 April until 5pm Sunday 26th April. |
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Plant a poppy in the RSA online Field of Remembrance
Take a moment to remember and donate to the RSA. You can leave your thoughts on their Wall of Remembrance or for your donation the RSA will send a mobile poppy to your phone. Every poppy sent means another poppy planted, in the online Field of Remembrance.
Watch the field grow, as Kiwis come together at http://www.anzacpoppy.com/. |
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28 (Maori) BattalionOver 3500 members of 28 (Maori) Battalion served in 2NZEF in the Middle East, Greece, Crete, North Africa and Italy. Further details »
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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