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Find selected images, audio, video and more relating to New Zealand and the First World War. From the capture of German Samoa to the fatal Gallipoli landings, Passchendaele to peace celebrations.
A memorial erected on Mt Maunganui in memory of the beacon fires lit on 16 prominent locations across the Bay of Plenty on 19 July 1919.
Content type: Images
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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A memorial erected on Mt Maunganui in memory of the beacon fires lit on 16 prominent locations across the Bay of Plenty on 19 July 1919.
Content type: Images
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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Unidentified group alongside the Stratford Post Office, possibly during World War 1 peace celebrations in 1919. Photograph taken by John Reginald Wall.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Glass negative
Content type: Images
Alexander Turnbull Library
Copyright: Unknown
Stereoscope looking south across the crater of Mount Eden towards the summit trig showing bonfires erected for the peace celebrations at the end of First World War. An unidentified man is in the foreground.
Auckland Region (N.Z.)
Content type: Images
Auckland Libraries
Copyright: No known copyright restrictions
Shows a group of people, mostly children, walking on Queen Street, Masterton. The Union Jack can be seen flying from a nearby building. ; The photo is thought to have been taken on the day of the Peace Day celebrations.
Content type: Images
Wairarapa Archive
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Shows a car with decorations and flags. A girl or woman dressed as Britannia stands in the car holding a trident. Several people stand by the car, which is probably in a patriotic parade or peace celebration.
Content type: Images
Wairarapa Archive
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Silver badge commemorating the July1919 Children's Day in Wellington, New Zealand. This was part of the Peace celebrations held on the 19th, 20th and 21st July.
Content type: Images
Museum Victoria
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When news of the First World War Armistice reached New Zealand it was met with widespread thanksgiving, celebration and a lot of noise. Here's how nursing sister Isobel Haresnape recalled the November 1918 peace celebrations in Auckland. Get involved...
Content type: Videos
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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News of the Armistice in Europe in November 1918 came swiftly to Rarotonga via its new wireless station.
Content type: Articles
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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Senior officers on horseback at the Victory Parade of allied troops in Paris in 1919 after World War I. Possibly the Guards Cavalry Brigade in the rear. Photograph taken 14 July 1919 by Thomas Frederick Scales.
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on ...
Content type: Images
Alexander Turnbull Library
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French senior officers on horseback in the Victory Parade of allied troops in Paris after World War I. Photograph taken 14 July 1919 by Thomas Frederick Scales.
Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 591
Quantity: 1 b&w ori...
Content type: Images
Alexander Turnbull Library
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Shows an allegorical female Victory figure holding aloft a wreath, and standing on top of the globe of the world. Flags of sixteen countries flank her.
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard..
Physical Description: Photolithograph...
Content type: Images
Alexander Turnbull Library
Copyright: Unknown
The triumphal arch erected for peace celebrations, at the end of World War One, on Stafford Street, Timaru, 19 July 1919. Taken looking northward at the arch, south of the Church Street intersection, with two men posed before it. The arch itself is ...
Content type: Images
South Canterbury Museum
Copyright: Some rights reserved
The triumphal arch erected for peace celebrations, at the end of World War One, on Stafford Street, Timaru, 19 July 1919. Taken looking northward at the arch, south of the Church Street intersection, with two men posed before it. The arch itself is ...
Content type: Images
South Canterbury Museum
Copyright: Some rights reserved
The triumphal arch erected for peace celebrations, at the end of World War One, on Stafford Street, Timaru, 19 July 1919. Taken looking northward at the arch, south of the Church Street intersection, with two men posed before it. The arch itself is ...
Content type: Images
South Canterbury Museum
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During the 1920s war memorials provided a focus for commemoration services in the Cook Islands, where the first Anzac Day service was possibly held in 1927. On Niue, Armistice celebrations focused on villages planting ‘peace groves’ of coconuts a...
Content type: Articles
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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Issue No 35 May 30, 1957 - Taken on Peace Celebration Day in 1919, after World War I had dragged to its inconclusive conclusion, this picture shows the late Tommy Adair with his car gaily decorated and packed with celebrants. The boy on the running-b...
Content type: Articles
Gisborne Photo News
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Looking from Queen Street towards the Auckland Town Hall which is decorated for the peace celebrations the end of First World War, the intersection of Wakefield Street and Queen Street (extreme left), a tram travelling down Queen Street (centre left)...
Content type: Images
Auckland Libraries
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Includes leave passes, movement orders, photographs, Christmas card from Christchurch Press, 1915, programme for Barbarians v New Zealand rugby game, 12 Oct 1918 and menu for peace celebrations, Grand Hotel, Auckland, 19 July 1919.
Quantity: 1 folde...
Content type: Images
Alexander Turnbull Library
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Rich with photographs and memorabilia, this book also contains excerpts from letters and diaries written by men serving overseas. The time period ranges from the declaration of war on 4 August 1914 through to serving overseas, the Influenza Pandemic,...
Content type: Images
Tauranga City Libraries
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