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Anzac Day 2021: Services and events in New Zealands main centres 24 Apr, 2021 08:00 AM 3 minutes to read Bill Rimmer sounds the Last Post during a remembrance of the fallen soldiers at Aucklands ONeills Point Cemetery on Anzac Day 2020. Photo / Brett Phibbs Bill Rimmer sounds the Last Post during a remembrance of the fallen soldiers at Aucklands ONeills Point Cemetery on Anzac Day 2020. Photo / Brett Phibbs NZ Herald New Zealanders can return to more traditional ways of commemorating Anzac Day ...

Share on Facebook Like last year, many Australians paid tribute at home by standing at the end of their driveways at dawn, many with a candle and radio or app for a synchronised playing of the Last Post. The Australian War Memorial received approval from health authorities to hold the traditional dawn service and national ceremony, with 3,000 pre-registered ticket holders able to attend the dawn service and 4,200 the national ceremony in Canberra. The Anzac Day Dawn service is com...

Date Time Robert honouring mates and uncles on ANZAC Day A Hervey Bay man who served in the Vietnam War will pay tribute to fallen military personnel – including his two uncles – on ANZAC Day. Robert Symonds commenced his defence force career half a century ago at the age of 22. Carinity Home Care client Robert Symons served in the New Zealand Air Force during the Vietnam War. He served in the New Zealand Air Force for 19 years and during that time was based at all the military bases in tha...

Hundreds gather to pay their respects at Whanganuis Anzac Day service 24 Apr, 2021 09:52 PM 4 minutes to read The return of the Anzac Day service in Whanganui on Sunday saw hundreds pour into the War Memorial Centre forecourt. Photo / Ethan Griffiths The return of the Anzac Day service in Whanganui on Sunday saw hundreds pour into the War Memorial Centre forecourt. Photo / Ethan Griffiths Hundreds poured into Whanganuis War Memorial Hall forecourt early on Sunday morning to pay their respects t...

HOME OR AWAY EDITORS NOTE Regular readers may recall that we issued an invitation, following a letter from Jo Webster of Gowrie, ACT, to state your preference for either international or domestic themed articles in Traveller as we negotiate the border bans brought on by the pandemic. Heres an initial selection of the so far fairly evenly split correspondence weve received: Im also pretty much over domestic travel stories. After arriving back from Norway in February 2020, I immediately booked a...

We think we know a lot about Australian and New Zealand soldiers’ health in the first world war. Many books, novels and television programs speak of wounds and war doctors, documenting the work of both Anzac nations’ medical corps. Often these histories begin with front-line doctors — known as regimental medical officers — who first reached wounded men in the field. The same histories often end in the hospital or at home. Yet, much of first world war medicine began and ended with the s...

How Anzac got lost in a cult of veneration Politicians who wrap themselves in the flag of a generation of fallen have separated Anzac from the realities of modern Australia and the context of why these wars were fought. Share Difficult though it may be to conceive of a time when Anzac did not dominate rituals of Australian nationhood, not long ago Anzac Day itself was on virtual life support. Its dwindling observance in the 1960s and ’70s, largely on account of the unpopular Vietnam War, but ...

The Country - Anzac Day edition 23 Apr, 2021 01:30 AM Quick Read The Country Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay looked forward to commemorating Anzac Day on Sunday, by playing some wartime classics. On with the show: Advertisement Alison Shanks: We caught up with the new brand ambassador for the Spring Sheep Milk Company. We asked how a former world champion cyclist ended up championing sheep milk? Don Carson: The PR Man for the NZ Forest Owners Association reflected on Anzac Day and a colourfu...

Date Time How Anzacs treated lice in trenches with poetry and their own brand of medicine We think we know a lot about Australian and New Zealand soldiers’ health in the first world war. Many books, novels and television programs speak of wounds and war doctors, documenting the work of both Anzac nations’ medical corps. Author Honorary Postdoctoral Associate, Macquarie University Often these histories begin with front-line doctors – known as regimental medical officers – who first...

Whanganui weather: What to expect for the Anzac Day long weekend 22 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 2 minutes to read Theres only a small chance of showers for this Sundays Anzac Day commemorations. Photo / Bevan Conley Theres only a small chance of showers for this Sundays Anzac Day commemorations. Photo / Bevan Conley Whanganui is set to have relatively fine weather for the long weekend with only a small chance of rain falling during Anzac Day dawn services. MetService meteorologist Alwyn Bakker said th...