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Korea War veteran tells of horror seeing napalm used for first time Newshub 6 hrs ago © Video - Newshub; Image - Newshub Watch: Korean War veteran Gordon Sutherland speaks to Newshub. Anzac dawn services were packed out throughout the country on Sunday for the first full-scale commemorations in three years. With the country in lockdown last year, and scaled back services in 2019 after the mosque attacks - Sundays events were full to the brim. The notes of The Last Post ringing out across A...

Live: National Anzac Day remembrance service underway in Wellington Newshub 2 hrs ago Mark Quinlivan, Crystal Wu © Newshub. Watch: West Coast man makes more than 100 poppy bowls for RSAs, churches, and marae. Kia ora, good morning and welcome to Newshubs live online coverage of Anzac Day 2021. The public holiday marks the anniversary of the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. West Coast man makes more than 100 poppy bowls for...

I had tears in my eyes: Thousands attend Anzac Day services around Aotearoa © RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod Attendees at Aucklands Anzac Day commemorations say they are thankful to be able to gather again after missing a year due to Covid-19. About 15,000 people attended the citys main Dawn Service at the Auckland War Memorial Museum under clear skies. Paul Banks, whose father flew in combat in World War II and whose mother was in the civil defence corps in London, said the service was particularly spec...

• Source:  1 NEWS The New Zealand Secondary Students Choir marked Anzac Day in Wellington this morning with a powerful waiata. Your playlist will load after this ad The choir sang Wairua Tapu, a hymn to the holy spirit, in Wellingtons Pukeahu National War Memorial Park. Source: 1 NEWS The choir sang Wairua Tapu, a hymn to the holy...

"I was so shocked that I even felt sorry for the enemy."

ROSA WOODS/Stuff Up to 10,000 people gathered at Wellington’s Pukeahu National War Memorial for an Anzac Day dawn service on Sunday. A story of a young pilot who yearned for the “fern-clad hills” of home before his aircraft was shot down in France during World War One has been recounted at a packed Anzac Day service in Wellington. Up to 10,000 people flocked to the 40-minute dawn service at Wellington’s Pukeahu National War Memorial to pay their respects to service men and women on a c...

Melville White, 23, wrote a letter to his parents in 1917 in anticipation of an imminent return to 'Godzone'. A short time later, he was killed.

There is no right of objection under the legislation used to acquire the NG building. Christchurch City Council previously confirmed the site needed to be cleared to make way for the $473m stadium being built across the three city blocks bordered by Madras, Hereford, Barbadoes and Tuam streets. Lydia Bloy, group manager for Crown property from Land Information New Zealand (Linz), which is responsible for acquiring land, said the Crown notified the owners on April 14 they would proceed with ...

The Kiwi musician with decades of classic hits including 'Loyal' and 'Welcome Home' was celebrated on Wednesday at Government House in Auckland.

New Zealand has farewelled Prince Philip in a reverential memorial service at Wellington Cathedral of St Paul.  Around 500 people attended a service rich in pomp, song and prayer on Wednesday in a cathedral adorned with British and Kiwi insignia.  Prince Philip, who visited New Zealand 10 times as the Queens husband and consort, died at Windsor Castle on April 9 at the age of 99.  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did not eulogise the Duke, who she never met in the job, instead delivering a read...