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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.
Anzac.govt.nz - a guide to Anzac Day
for New Zealanders from the Ministry for
Culture and Heritage.- Anzac Day - about the remembrance of Anzac Day from the RSA (New Zealand Returned Services Association). Details of Poppy Day, traditionally observed on the Friday before Anzac Day. A new innovation in 2009 is Mobile Poppy, where you can plant a poppy in the online Field of Remembrance.
- Anzac Day - information from NZHistory.net.nz including essays on the history of the day and the Anzac tradition, paintings from the National War Art collection, campaign maps, and biographies of a range people who served at Gallipoli.
- Anzac Day - list of links from Te Kete Ipurangi The Online Learning Centre.
- Quick Facts for kids about Anzac Day.
World War 1 & Gallipoli
- New Zealanders in World War I: Gallipoli - library resources about this battle
- Gallipoli Guide from Anzac.govt.nz
- The Gallipoli Campaign - an illustrated essay taken from the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History
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.
