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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 message home: Connecting whānau through Online Cenotaph
Victoria Passau, Online Cenotaph & Enquiry Service Manager
In 2024, sound history researcher Sarah Johnston shared a poignant story about a World War II sound disc that reconnected the family of Daniel Joseph Clifford, a young New Zealand airman, with the voice of their long-lost loved one.
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Online Cenotaph: Connecting communities through collective memory
Victoria Passau, Online Cenotaph & Enquiry Service Manager
This article summarises how Online Cenotaph fosters social cohesion by engaging communities in shaping New Zealand’s military history through digital interaction. Drawing from research by Liew and Passau (2024), it highlights how user contributions transform military history into a living heritage, connecting people and strengthening communal ties.
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New Zealand's post-WWII conflicts in South East Asia
Matthew Nickless
Collection Technician - Research Support
In the period between World War II and the Vietnam War, New Zealand was involved in a number of engagements in South East Asia that are often forgotten. This blog is a short explainer of those conflicts.
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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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Support Online Cenotaph
December 2021 marked 25 years of Online Cenotaph. The Museum is working hard to expand the voices being shared on Online Cenotaph so that more of our communities can access this taonga. We are so excited to recognise this significant milestone in digital commemoration, but we need your help to fulfil our potential for years to come.
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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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Lieutenant Commander (Ret) Ralph John McNabb
Victoria Passau, Online Cenotaph & Enquiry Service Manager
Lieutenant Commander (Ret) Ralph John McNabb served in the Royal New Zealand Navy for 46 years between 1973 and 2021. His impressive institutional knowledge is a true asset to New Zealand Naval research.
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