Pages tagged with: war memorials

The New Zealand war memorials of the First World War have become part of the common fabric of our lives, like stop signs or lamp-posts. Virtually every township in the country has one, usually in the main street.

Map with links to Auckland memorials.

Anzac Day was made a half-day holiday in 1916, and the pattern of the day's events that occur now began at that time.

Location map and links for memorials in the Coromandel region

Map showing locations of King Country memorials, links to more information and images about each memorial.

Location map and links for memorials in the Volcanic Plateau region

Map and links to East  Coast memorials

Index map of Hawke's Bay memorials

Location map for memorials in the Taranaki district

Exercise for finding out more about someone who was killed during the war

Location map for memorials in the Wanganui area.

Map with links to memorials in the Manawatu and Horowhenua regions

Map with links to images and information about Wairarapa war memorials

Location map and links to Wellington memorials

Just under 100 war cemeteries in Belgium and around 500 memorials in New Zealand serve as permanent reminders of the terrible toll of 1917.

Location map and links for memorials in the Marlborough region

Location map and links for memorials in the Nelson region

Index map with links to West Coast memorials

Location map and links for memorials in the Otago region

Lord Milner speaks at the unveiling of the New Zealand Memorial in Le Quesnoy, 15 July 1923

Chunuk Bair Memorial, Gallipoli

This is one of AB 608’s memorial nameplates.

Passchendaele was a star of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, and it hauled the Prince of Wales's royal train in 1920 and the Duke and Duchess of York’s in 1927.

Tyne Cot Cemetery contains the graves of more New Zealanders than any other cemetery outside New Zealand.

Most memorials to New zealand's war dead were ornamental, but in the 1920s utilitarian memorials, such as community halls, libraries and bridges were built.

Map with links to Southland memorials

Memorial to a Turkish Soldier, Ari Burnu Memorial, Gallipoli

The dedication of the New Zealand memorial at Le Quesnoy, 15 July 1923

During the dedication of the New Zealand Memorial at Le Quesnoy in 1923

This is the Somme bell in the Carillon at the National War Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand. The inscription reads: To the Glorious Memory of The New Zealand Division, 1916–18. Its Record does honour to the land from which it came and to the Empire for which it fought.

During the second half of the 19th century a tradition developed in Britain to erect war memorials to those who had died in foreign wars and had no grave at home.

Marjorie Joyce Davis, representing New Zealand wives and fiancees of US servicemen, lays a wreath at the Wellington cenotaph on America's Memorial Day, 30 May 1944