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Purple Poppy Day
COMMEMORATING OUR WAR ANIMALS
This page is to acknowledge the war animals who served and died during times of war. Please feel free to leave a message or lay a purple poppy to commemorate those war animals who served and supported our military personnel.
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NZIPP - RSA WWII Veteran Portrait Project
Tony Stewart, NZIPP Project Co-ordinator
Like many good ideas, this one started small. It was a casual discussion, conceived with a throw away remark over a beer. Chris Traill, a New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography Inc (NZIPP) member from Auckland, happened to mention how good it would be if NZIPP photographed returned service personnel and the rest is history.
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Unknown Warrior
This page is to commemorate those New Zealanders who did not make the journey home after serving their country overseas. It also serves as a focus of remembrance for the sacrifice made by all New Zealand servicemen and women in times of war.
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A Year in Review: Online Cenotaph 2020
Online Cenotaph Team
2020 began with a team member moving to Wellington, included two lockdowns, five grant recipients, and forty one transcription projects. Here we have shared some of our accomplishments and highlights for 2020.
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Evacuation of Gallipoli
By Glyn Harper
Excerpt from Johnny Enzed: The New Zealand Solider in the First World War 1914-1918 (First World War Centenary History series)
In this excerpt from Johnny Enzed: The New Zealand Soldier in First World War, Glyn Harper shares some of the experiences and emotions of New Zealand Soldiers in preparing to evacuate Gallipoli on the 15 December 1915.
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Cenotaph Stories: Contemporary Reflections
We aim to capture contemporary responses to COVID-19 by exploring the similarities, parallels, and perspectives that emerge from considering the pandemic response in the contexts of peace and conflict, and remembrance and commemoration.
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Corporal William George Lowther: ‘the least visited Kiwi on the peninsula’
Dr Christopher Pugsley
LIEUTENANT COLONEL (RETIRED), ONZM, DPHIL, FRHISTS
Being commemorated at The Farm Cemetery, the most difficult of plots to access, Corporal W Lowther, of Auckland Bnis probably the least visited Kiwi on the peninsula. Chris Pugsley in conversation with his old friends Bill and Serpil Sellars.
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A Gallipoli conversation after Anzac Day 2020
Dr Christopher Pugsley
LIEUTENANT COLONEL (RETIRED), ONZM, DPHIL, FRHISTS
Bill and Serpil Sellars are old friends of Chris Pugsley who live in Eceabat (Maidos)– the small village and ferry terminal on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bill emailed Chris on 25 April 2020. This is part of the discussion that followed and the story that unfolded.
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A Morning on Chunuk Bair
Dr Christopher Pugsley
LIEUTENANT COLONEL (RETIRED), ONZM, DPHIL, FRHISTS
On the 8th August 2015, Dr Christopher Pugsley, watched as the sun rose over the Chunuk Bair New Zealand Memorial and wrote about the legacy of these events one hundred years on. On the 105th anniversary of Chunuk Bair we re-share his touching tribute to all those who were lost on this day.
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Treaty of Versailles
Peace Treaty with a Terrible Reputation
Glyn Harper Professor of War Studies Massey University
One Hundred and one years ago, on the 28th June 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. Here, Professor Glyn Harper, of Massey University examines some of the consequences of the 1919 Treaty and challenges the arguments that it was a direct cause of the Second World War.
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