Armistice Day 2008  |  The 90th Anniversary

A Guide for New Zealanders to Armistice Day 2008 (Tues, 11 November 2008).

Latest News

Armistice Day in New Zealand

Armistice Day Overseas

Media Coverage

Useful Links

Lastest News

The latest news and information.

13 November 2008
"After The War Was Over" Live Cinema
New Zealand Film Archive

11 November 2008
"An Impressive Silence" Exhibition opens at Archives NZ
Archives New Zealand

11 November 2008
Commemorative Services for 11 November
RNZRSA

11 November 2008
TVNZ to broadcast LIVE National Service
TVNZ site

11 November 2008
Great War ordeal told in film
New Zealand Herald

11 November 2008
Poignant reminders of war
Dominion Post

11 November 2008
Armistice Day, 90 years on...
Stuff

11 November 2008
Peace forever linked to Armistice Day
Otago Daily Times

10 November 2008
Special stamps mark end to WW1
New Zealand Herald

8 November 2008
Armistice Day not forgotten but a mystery to teens
Otago Daily Times

17 October 2008
Events to mark 90th anniversary of Armistice
Beehive site

Armistice Day in New Zealand

The following are special events happening around the country:

"After the War Was Over"
Live Cinema
New Zealand Film Archive
DV (orig 35mm), B&W, silent/sound, 65 minutes. With live piano accompaniment performing tunes from the era.

Wellington: Thursday, 13 November 2008, 7:00pm
NZ Film Archive, cnr Taranaki & Ghuznee Streets, Wellington

filmarchive.org.nz

Auckland: Saturday, 15 November 2008, 2:00pm
Auditorium, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland
filmarchive.org.nz

An Impressive Silence: Public Memory and Personal Experience of the Great War Exhibition
Archives New Zealand
Mulgrave Street, Wellington
12 November 2008-May 2009
http://exhibitions.archives.govt.nz

In Memory
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Tamaki Gallery
11 November 2008-11 January 2009
www.aucklandmuseum.com
To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the World War I Armistice, Auckland War Memorial Museum presents In Memory, a special exhibition. The three-screen film installation by film maker Peter Kirby traces the war years from its outbreak in 1914 through to the Armistice, and includes personal reflections from historians and notable New Zealanders.

The Last 100 Days - Victory and Home
Army Museum, Waiouru
The Last 100 Days is a new exhibition to mark the 90th anniversary of the New Zealand Division's early efforts on the Western Front on display at the Army Museum Waiouru.

www.armymuseum.co.nz

Armistice Talks
National Library of New Zealand
58-78 Molesworth Street
Thorndon
Wellington
Cost: Free

Wed 12 Nov 08, 12:15pm-1:30pm
''An Armistice Talk" with Dr Monty Soutar about the history of the Maori Pioneer Battalion.

Wed 5 Nov 08, 12:15pm-1:30pm
''The Effects of the Great War on a Small Town' Dr Graham Hucker (Senior Lecturer in the School of Educational Studies, Massey University) asks the question, what were some of the effects of the Great War? In this presentation he aims to answer that question by focusing on a predominantly rural region of New Zealand, namely Taranaki, with particular reference to the borough and county of Stratford around the time of the Armistice in 1918 and in the immediate post-war period.

Wed 29 Oct 08, 12:15pm-1:30pm
'Returning, Restoring, Remembering' Dr Sandy Callister will discuss a number of different narratives around 'Coming Home' - using photographic evidence of the 'after effects' of this war.

Wed 22 Oct 08, 12:15pm-1:30pm
‘The Longest Return’ Dr Stephen Clarke (RSA Historian) surveys the New Zealand experience of the return from war for both soldiers and society through stories of rehabilitation and remembrance.

Armistice in Cambridge
Memorial Park, Cambridge
7-9 November 2008
This year Armistice in Cambridge 2008 will take place during the weekend prior to Armistice Day Tuesday 11 November, with a full weekend of events at Memorial Park.
www.armisticeincambridge.co.nz

Armistice Day Overseas

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

France

Le Quesnoy, France
3-11 November 2008
A full programme of commemorations as well as an exhibition, a play and "France and New Zealand during the Great War/La France et la Nouvelle-Zélande pendant la grande guerre": A Conference organised by the University of Waikato and town of Le Quesnoy.
www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/LeQuesnoy08

Australia

Remembrance Day (Australian War Memorial, Canberra)
www.awm.gov.au

Canada

Remembrance Day (Canadian War Museum, Ottawa)
www.warmuseum.ca

United Kingdom

90th Anniversary of First World War (IWM, London)
www.iwm.org.uk

Remembrance Sunday (BBC)
www.bbc.co.uk

United States of America

Veterans Day (Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Washington)
www1.va.gov

Media Coverage

Watch LIVE coverage of Coming Home: Te Hokinga Mai 90th Anniversary Of The End Of World War One, Tuesday 11 November, from 10.45am on TV ONE. http://tvnz.co.nz

Wendy Petrie hosts LIVE coverage of the Commemorative Service marking the 90th Anniversary of the end of World War One (WWI) from the National War Memorial in Wellington at 10.45am on TV ONE today and streamed LIVE on the TVNZ website.

Useful links

New Zealand Military History links (on this site)

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database
www.aucklandmuseum.com

Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.cwgc.org

First World War Exhibitions on NZHistory
www.nzhistory.net.nz

‘...for the first time since facing the enemy
my mind allows itself to really believe that
I shall see you all again’

12/474 George Tuck, Auckland Infantry Battalion,
writing to his parents on 12 November 1918