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ANZAC Day 25 April

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ANZAC Day in New Zealand is held on 25 April each year to commemorate New Zealanders killed in war and to honour returned servicemen and women.

Anzac is a word made from the acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the formation created in December 1914 by grouping the Australian Imperial Force and New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Anzac Day

Anzac Day services in Christchurch - from localeye, your online guide to Christchurch and Canterbury.

Anzac Day services in Canterbury - from localeye, your online guide to Christchurch and Canterbury.

World War 1 & Gallipoli

Our Oldest Soldier, New from NZ on Screen

In the final weeks of WW1 Lawrence ‘Curly' Blyth helped liberate the strategic French town of Le Quesnoy from German forces, later winning a French Legion of Honour for his efforts. In this 2002 documentary his grandson, director David Blyth, uses interviews and stock footage to chronicle the times at war of his grandad, who died in 2001, aged 105.

More New Zealand at War resources.

See also our Armistice Day (11 November) page.