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A Guide to ANZAC Day 2008 for New Zealanders here and around the world.

Latest News

ANZAC Day in New Zealand

ANZAC Day Overseas

Media Coverage

Digital Remembrance

Useful Links

 

Lastest News

The latest news and information.

Poppy Day 18 April 2008
Poppy goes Digital
Tell your friends and relatives overseas that they can now get their NZ poppy for ANZAC Day and also support the RSA Poppy Appeal for veterans welfare. Thanks to Voeveo available here:
www.voeveo.com


11 April 2008
Poppy Day, Friday 18 April

"Poppies on Parliament",
Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 April 2008 (7pm to 11pm). Read more

 

3 April 2008
Rare Gallipoli painting on offer for first time
A rare Gallipoli painting by New Zealand war artist Horace Moore-Jones will be up for grabs for the first time when it goes under the hammer on 7 April.
www.nzherald.co.nz

2 April 2008
ANZAC Tradition honoured in NZ Post Stamps
The many New Zealanders who lost their lives fighting on foreign fields are being remembered and honoured in New Zealand Post’s latest Stamp Issue.
www.rsa.org.nz/about/nws2008apr/ANZAC_stamps.htm

 


 

ANZAC Day in New Zealand

Finding your local ANZAC Day service is easy by using the locator here:

Attend an ANZAC Service

Special events and exhibitions around the country:

ANZAC Day @ Auckland Museum
Auckland War Memorial Museum
22-25 April 2008
www.aucklandmuseum.com

 

 

 

ANZAC Day @ Te Papa
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongawera
Wellington
www.tepapa.govt.nz

 

 

ANZAC Day @ Army Museum
Army Museum Waiouru
www.armymuseum.co.nz

 

 

ANZAC Day Overseas

Information for New Zealanders travelling to Gallipoli and about services and special events around the world.

Gallipoli

Travel Advice for 2008 Gallipoli Commemorations (Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade)
www.safetravel.govt.nz

Belgium

ANZAC DAY 2008 In Belgium (NZ Embassy in Brussels)
www.nzembassy.com/belgium

 

Worldwide

Find out about ANZAC Day events from your local embassy
www.nzembassy.com or go represent the 'NZ' at an Australian service www.dva.gov.au/commem/anzac/ceremony/overseas

 

 

Media Coverage

Television, radio and online broadcasts.

A TATOU TAONGA
ANZAC Day on Māori Television

www.maoritelevision.com

 

 

THE NATION REMEMBERS
ANZAC Day coverage on TV ONE

tvnz.co.nz

 

ANZAC Day coverage on Radio New Zealand National
www.radionz.co.nz

 

 

 

Digital Remembrance

Remembrance in the 21st Century.

Poppy goes Digital
Tell your friends and relatives overseas that they can now get their NZ poppy for ANZAC Day thanks to Voeveo.
www.voeveo.com

 

Digital Book of Remembrance
Auckland War Memorial Museum

 

 

World War One Memorial Project Blog
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongawera
Wellington

 

 

 

New Zealand War Graves Project

 

 

 

 

 

Useful links

ANZAC: A Guide to ANZAC Day (Min for Culture and Heritage)
www.anzac.govt.nz

ANZAC Day (Ministry for Culture and Heritage)
www.nzhistory.net.nz

Auckland War Memorial Museum's Cenotaph Database
www.aucklandmuseum.com

Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.cwgc.org

Visit Gallipoli (Australian Department of Veteran Affairs)
www.anzacsite.gov.au

New Zealand Military History links (on this site)

'...the greatest day in our lives'

12/896 Sergeant Richard Ward, Auckland Infantry Battalion, diary entry for 25 April 1915


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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