The 80th anniversaries of many significant World War II battles fall in the years from 2019 to 2025. The New Zealand Division was in Italy in 1943-44.
The 2nd New Zealand Division, initially the New Zealand Division, was an infantry...
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Monday, November 27, 2023
Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery, Authuile
The New Zealand War Graves Trust has welcomed the decision by Unesco to list World War I graves and memorials on the Western Front in Belgium and northern France as a World...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) in the United Kingdom has agreed that all of its website pages commemorating New Zealanders will now have a link to the New Zealand War Graves Trust (NZWGT) website.
The CWGC cares in...
Friday, November 16, 2018
In the centenary year of the 1918 influenza pandemic, the history of military deaths reveals how chronic was the spread of the disease in military camps with the men in close quarters.
In New Zealand, the army camps at Narrow Neck in...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Among the 2014-2018 centenary commemorations of battles, events and participants in World War I, the last major action of the New Zealand division – the relief of Le Quesnoy on November 4, 1918 – sounds a bright note....
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
If you approach High Wood (Bois des Fourcaux) in northern France you find a flourishing stand of sweet chestnut trees, with oak, ash, hawthorn and field maples on a 150-metre high promontory, their green crowns clustering in the breeze....
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Among the World War One centenaries being marked between 2014 and 2018, few will be as poignant as the commemoration of the sinking on October 23, 1915 of the HT Marquette. The tragedy saw the loss of 167 lives including ten New Zealand...
Saturday, August 8, 2015
The centennial of the battle for Chunuk Bair fell on 8 August, 2015 and 100 hundred years ago, Annie Douglas, the mother of George and Thomas both killed at Chunuk Bair, spoke of her loss. “Both were fine young fellows” and “they have done...
Sunday, November 9, 2014
In the year marking the centenary of the start of World War I in 1914, six New Zealand soldiers are added to the New Zealand and Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s official rolls of honour. They are Private Arthur Joseph Best, Private...
Monday, September 15, 2014
A national commemoration making the 100th annivesary of the New Zealand occupation of German Samoa at the beginning of World War I has been held at the Cenotaph, Auckland War Memorial Museum. The centenary was marked on August 29.
The...