NZ'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY 2014–2019

Activities & Projects

Centenary of the Liberation of Le Quesnoy National Ceremony

New Zealand will mark the centenary of its last significant action in the First World War with a national ceremony at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park on 4 November 2018.

Topics: Events, Le Quesnoy, Commemorations, Ceremonies, Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, France Located in: New Zealand, Wellington
Category: Commemorative events, parades and services
Organised by: WW100 Programme Office, Visits & Ceremonies Office - Department of Internal Affairs
100th Anniversary of the Battle of Messines - National Ceremony

A remembrance ceremony at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington at 11 am on 7 June 2017 to mark the centenary of the Battle of Messines.

Topics: Messines, Events, Commemorations, Ceremonies, Western Front, Belgium Audience: General, Descendants Located in: New Zealand, Wellington
Category: Commemorative events, parades and services
Organised by: WW100 Programme Office, Visits & Ceremonies Office - Department of Internal Affairs
OFFICIAL WW100
Marking the Centenary of the First World War in France

A remembrance ceremony at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington on 18 September 2016.

Topics: France, Western Front, Commemorations, Ceremonies, Events, Somme Audience: General, French community, Descendants Located in: New Zealand, Wellington
Category: Commemorative events, parades and services, Historical re-enactments, Creative projects or crafts, Conferences, public talks, symposiums
Organised by: WW100 Programme Office, Visits & Ceremonies Office - Department of Internal Affairs
OFFICIAL WW100
National ceremony marking the beginning of the First World War for New Zealand

The main ceremony will be held in Parliament Grounds with a 100-Gun Salute being fired on Wellington’s waterfront outside Te Papa. 4 August 2014, 9 to 9.30 am.

Politicians and a crowd, outside Parliament Buildings, upon the declaration of war with Germany, August 1914. Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand. Ref: 1/2-048457-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natl
Topics: Commemorations, Ceremonies Audience: General Located in: New Zealand, Wellington
Category: Commemorative events, parades and services
Organised by: WW100 Programme Office, New Zealand Defence Force, Visits & Ceremonies Office - Department of Internal Affairs
OFFICIAL WW100
National commemoration to mark the 100th anniversary of the New Zealand occupation of German Samoa

A ceremony will be held at Auckland War Memorial Museum to mark New Zealand's first overseas action in the war, the occupation of German Samoa. 29 August 2014, 4.15 pm.

Topics: Events, Pacific, Samoa, August 14 Audience: General Located in: Auckland
Category: Commemorative events, parades and services
Organised by: Auckland War Memorial Museum, WW100 Programme Office, Visits & Ceremonies Office - Department of Internal Affairs