NZ'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY 2014–2019

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Feilding Armistice Day commemoration

Feilding's Armistice Day is a Community Event aimed at recapturing the energy of the original Armistice Day of 1918. Manchester Square, 11 November 2018.

Topics: Events, Armistice, Commemorations, Ceremonies, Families Located in: New Zealand, Feilding
Category: Commemorative events, parades and services, Concerts, festivals or performances
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Pop up Poppy Making

Make a poppy from willow and tissue paper to contribute to a collaborative Anzac wreath. 

Topics: Anzac Day 2016 Audience: General, Individuals / Families Located in: Feilding
Category: Commemorative events, parades and services, Creative projects or crafts
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WW100 Anzac Display - Feilding

WW100 Anzac Display showing 4000 poppies and Gallipoli and Western Front images at Coach House Museum from 24 April - 30 June 2015.

Topics: Events, Exhibitions, Local history Audience: Local residents, General Located in: New Zealand, Feilding
Category: Exhibitions and new educational facilities
Organised by: Coach House Museum
The Ruapehu Anzac Express

Travel with Steam Incorporated on this Anzac Weekend excursion to the Central Plateau, hauled by the First World War memorial locomotive Ab608 “Passchendaele".

Topics: Commemorations, Ceremonies, Passchendaele, railway, Events, Anzac Day 2015 Audience: local visitors, Tourists, General Located in: New Zealand, Feilding, New Zealand, Ohakune, New Zealand, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Waiouru
Category: Other
Organised by: Steam Incorporated
'Councils do their bit for the war' exhibition, Manawatu-Wanganui

A window into the homefront during the First World War, showing the reaction of local communities in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region. Archives Central, Feilding, 16 September 2014-28 November 2014. 

Topics: Exhibitions, Events, Homefront Audience: local visitors Located in: New Zealand, Feilding
Category: Exhibitions and new educational facilities
Organised by: Archives Central
A silent tribute to those who served, Manawatu

A silent slideshow (inspired by the Berry photographic plates) of formal portraits taken of servicemen before they headed off to the unknown trials of war.

Topics: Anzac Day 2015, Photography, Local history, Film Audience: local visitors, General Located in: New Zealand, Feilding
Category: Publications and online resources, Exhibitions and new educational facilities
Organised by: Feilding and Districts Community Archive
Manawatu World War One Memorials

First World War memorial monuments, obelisks, statues, Honours boards, plaques, gates of the Manawatu have been searched out, restored and recorded; ready for community ANZAC Day commemorations.

Feilding War Memorial
Topics: Memorials, Monuments, Heritage sites, Books, Anzac Day 2014 Audience: Community Groups Located in: Feilding, Palmerston North
Category: Publications and online resources, Memorials or monuments, Research or lifelong learning, Preservation, conservation or protection
Organised by: Peter Olsen of Colyton - Manawatu