WW100 – New Zealand's First World War Centenary Programme ran from 2014 to 2019

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NZ'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY 2014–2019

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Anzac Sight Sound website marks Versailles centenary
27 June 2019

New film and sound recordings have been added to the Anzac Sight Sound website to coincide with the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles this week, contributing to the final phase of First World War commemorations.

Visitors walking outside the Palace of Versailles in 1919
Youth debate to mark centenary of the Treaty of Versailles
21 June 2019

Some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s top secondary school debaters will consider New Zealand’s global role in a debate at Parliament on Thursday 27 June 2019 to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.

Three youth debaters standing in Parliament's Grand Hall
NZDF rowers to compete in historic King's Cup
17 June 2019

A New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) rowing squad is gearing up to compete in a race to commemorate the same event that was held 100 years ago, after the end of the First World War.

The NZDF rowing team training at Lake Karapiro
Māori contribution to First World War revealed in new book
10 June 2019

The important and poignant story of the Māori contribution to the First World War is told for the first time in the book Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori in the First World War.

Line of men in replica uniforms of the Maori Pioneer Battalion
New memorial to remember New Zealand soldiers on Cannock Chase, UK
24 May 2019

Over half a million men from across the UK and abroad spent time at the camps at Cannock Chase learning the skills required on the Western Front. New Zealand's High Commissioner unveiled a sign at the spot to remember the New Zealand experience.

Two men shaking hands behind a newly unveiled Ngā Tapuwae sign
First World War Centenary Programme a success
01 May 2019

Almost all New Zealanders engaged with the First World War Centenary Programme (WW100), according to a new report released today by Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Grant Robertson.

Finding Our Way Back: New Zealand's Journey Back to Peace
18 April 2019

The stories of three New Zealanders who made it home from the First World War are the focus of WW100’s latest campaign Finding Our Way Back.

Kiwis globally invited to be part of Anzac Sound Art for Peace
12 April 2019

Curators of The Sound of Peace, an art soundscape are inviting the nation and Kiwis throughout the world to record their message of peace online.

Saint David's Church, Auckland
New Zealand Maori Pioneer Battalion – commemorating 100 years since the return home on 6 April 1919
04 April 2019

The New Zealand Maori (Pioneer) Battalion was the only battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to return to New Zealand as a complete unit and on 6 April 1919, says Dr Monty Soutar, Senior Māori Historian Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

Public unveiling of restored Te Arawa Memorial
26 February 2019

The restored Te Arawa Soldiers’ Memorial will be unveiled 92 years to the day that it was originally erected in 1927 and the public are invited to attend.

Illuminating and commemorating WWI for the modern era
14 December 2018

For the first time in nearly a century, a collection of significant First World War lantern slides belonging to the University of Canterbury (UC) is freely available for the public to view.

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