New Zealand – Page 12 – First World War Centenary News Archive

November 30, 2016 CN Editorial Team

WW1 soldier’s Victoria Cross donated to Australian War Memorial

A Victoria Cross awarded to New Zealand-born soldier Lawrence Carthage Weathers has gone on permanent display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

December 2, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘A legacy for future generations’ – Auckland Museum’s new remembrance gallery

A new gallery for New Zealanders to discover and commemorate those who’ve served their country in war has opened at Auckland War Memorial Museum.

January 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2017

The penultimate year of the Great War unleashed events that would reshape the world in the 20th century.

January 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

NZ’s new Prime Minister visits WW1 battlefields in Belgium

New Zealand’s recently appointed Prime Minister, Bill English, has made an early visit to First World War memorials at the centre of Centenary commemorations in 2017.

January 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘The Earth Remembers’ – Arras honours New Zealand tunnellers for 2017 Centenary

A new memorial honouring New Zealand’s WW1 tunnellers is due to be inaugurated during the Battle of Arras Centenary commemorations in France in April 2017.

February 14, 2017 CN Editorial Team

New Zealand marks Battle of Messines Centenary – June 2017

New Zealand will hold events in Belgium on June 7 to commemorate its role in the Battle of Messines, a dramatic prelude to the main Allied offensive at Ypres in 1917.

February 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Passchendaele Remembered’ – 3rd Battle of Ypres Centenary events update

The latest on commemorations coming up in Flanders in 2017 to mark the centenary of a WW1 campaign fought in some of the most atrocious conditions on the Western Front.

March 14, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary tributes to Captain Archibald Bisset Smith VC

Ceremonies have been held in Scotland and New Zealand to honour Archibald Bisset Smith, a First World War merchant ship’s captain awarded the Victoria Cross, and the crewmen lost with him on the SS Otaki.

March 27, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Battle of Arras Centenary update – Scotland remembers

Commemorations honouring Scottish soldiers who fought at the Battle of Arras in 1917 will be held in France and Scotland during a day of international centenary events on 9 April 2017.

March 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘For Then, For Now, Forever’ – CWGC marks its 2017 Centenary

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is marking its Centenary year with the launch of new projects aimed at promoting awareness of its founding mission of remembrance in perpetuity.