New Zealand – Page 11 – First World War Centenary News Archive

June 22, 2016 CN Editorial Team

UK online tribute to overseas Victoria Cross winners

A digital archive telling the stories of 175 overseas recipients of Britain’s highest award for valour has gone online as part of the UK Government’s First World War Centenary programme.

July 3, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Round-up of other Somme centenary memorial events

As well as the commemorative events at Thiepval and Manchester, there were many other events in the UK and France that marked the centenary.

July 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme exhibition tribute to New Zealander who fought for France

A new exhibition for the Somme Centenary aims to raise awareness of James Waddell, a much decorated New Zealander who served in the French Foreign Legion.

July 18, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Centenary revival for First World War ‘Shakespeare Hut’

The story of a ‘forgotten’ building that entertained First World War soldiers with Shakespeare’s plays is being rediscovered for the Centenary.

September 7, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary – New Zealand remembers at Longueval Sept 15

Prince Charles is to join New Zealanders in France next week for commemorations honouring those who fought at the Battle of the Somme a century ago.

September 8, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘Conscientious objection & dissent’ – New Zealand First World War study

Comprehensive lists of New Zealanders who opposed conscription in the Great War have been compiled for the first time, New Zealand Government historians have announced.

September 19, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Somme Centenary events in France honour New Zealand’s Fallen

New Zealand held a series of commemorations in France on 15 September 2016 to mark the centenary of the New Zealand Division joining the Battle of the Somme.

October 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

November exhibition focuses on New Zealand brothers’ WW1 naval sketches

Rare drawings of the First World War at sea by brothers Esmond and Hal Atkinson will be displayed at an exhibition in Petone, New Zealand, from 3-23 November 2016.

October 13, 2016 CN Editorial Team

CWGC launches Somme battlefield guide

Centenary News reports from an event at the Canadian High Commission in London, marking publication of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Somme Battlefield Companion.

November 29, 2016 CN Editorial Team

Oxford seminars to explore ‘how we can best commemorate war’

Leading figures from the arts and politics will discuss post-war commemoration and reconciliation at a series of seminars in 2017-18, Oxford University announces.