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A Year in Review: Online Cenotaph 2024
Online Cenotaph team
As another year draws to a close, the Online Cenotaph team at Auckland War Memorial Museum reflects on a year of community-driven commemoration. In this end of year review, we've compiled some highlights showing how, together with our community, we have honoured New Zealand's veterans in 2024.
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A Year in Review: Online Cenotaph 2023
Online Cenotaph, Sophie Elborough and Matthew Nickless
The Auckland War Memorial Museum’s Online Cenotaph team has had another impactful year in 2023, marked by sharing poignant stories, and enhanced community engagement. This review highlights the key achievements and milestones of the year, showcasing our commitment to honouring New Zealand’s military history.
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25 Years of Online Cenotaph
Victoria Passau
Online Cenotaph and Enquiry Services Manager
Online Cenotaph has been commemorating the experiences of Aotearoa New Zealand’s military service for more than 25 years. Online Cenotaph is a collection of data relating to Aotearoa New Zealand’s operational military service including personal, biographical, demographic, social and military information. But it is much more than a collection of datapoints.
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A year in review: Online Cenotaph 2022
Online Cenotaph, Victoria Passau and Madison Pine
This year was a milestone year for Online Cenotaph celebrating both 25 years of Online Cenotaph, and also reaching over 100,000 public data contributions and 65,000 images uploaded.
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Sharing your stories
May-September 2022
Nelson Bennett, Collection Technician Research Support
This article is part of an ongoing series in which we highlight the amazing contributions we receive at Online Cenotaph. The variety and quality of material that is contributed to records is astonishing and this is our opportunity to highlight just a few examples from May to September of 2022.
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25 years of Online Cenotaph
December 2021 marked 25 years of Online Cenotaph. It is amazing to think that we have been telling the stories of Aotearoa New Zealand’s military veterans and their comrades for a quarter century. We are so excited to recognise this significant milestone in digital commemoration.
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Anzac Day Contributions
Over Anzac Day we received numerous contributions of images, notes, and more as people shared precious details. Here, we have highlighted some of the beautiful photographs contributed to Online Cenotaph by loved ones.
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Records of the Fourth Force
Madison Pine
Collection Technician, Research Support
Between November 2021 and February 2022, Online Cenotaph had two dedicated transcribers working on the Records of New Zealand Seamen, also known as the Merchant Navy. Here, we share their work, and our efforts to include this fourth force in Online Cenotaph.
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Worth a thousand words
Online Cenotaph encourages the contribution of information, documents and photos, as well as personal stories that portray the experiences of New Zealand service personnel. These photographs are some of the images that have recently been shared by whānau to their loved ones Online Cenotaph records.
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A Year in Review: Online Cenotaph 2021
Online Cenotaph, Victoria Passau and Madison Pine
It has been a busy year for the Online Cenotaph team, updating and creating thousands of records, working on numerous transcription projects with our Visitor Host and Volunteers, and working with all our researchers and contributors. Here, we share our accomplishments and highlights of 2021.
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