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Utilising Auckland Museum's Online Cenotaph database, this project will have a collection of core focuses. These will include: Creating articles and subsequent wikidata items for service people from migrant backgrounds who fought for New Zealand. Strengthening information surrounding women who served and supported the war effort.
The Auckland War Memorial Museum (Māori: Tāmaki Paenga Hira), also known as Auckland Museum, is one of New Zealand's most important museums and war memorials. Its neoclassical building constructed in the 1920s and 1950s, stands on Observatory Hill, [ 10 ] the remains of a dormant volcano, in the Auckland Domain , near Auckland CBD .
Formed as the Auckland Philosophical Society on 6 November 1867, for "the promotion of art, science, and literature by means of a museum and library, lectures, and meetings of the members", with a view to incorporation with the newly created New Zealand Institute and adopting the Auckland Museum, [6] [7] [8] the Society was fittingly renamed the Auckland Institute in March 1868 and formally ...
Watch as Britain marks Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, commemorating British military service members who died in both World Wars and later conflicts. The nation fell silent on ...
Remembrance Sunday 2024 is being marked at London's Cenotaph with its annual wreath-laying ceremony, ahead of a two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT. Members of the Royal family will join politicians ...
The War Memorial Museum in the Auckland Domain is the site of the largest annual ANZAC service in Auckland. [38] White crosses erected on the field in front of the War Memorial Museum, commemorate the people that died in the New Zealand Wars and the New Zealand military personnel that died from wars fought overseas (beginning with the South ...
The stone frieze on the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland. Elements on the Wellington cenotaph including the two panels of a call-to-arms relief and the equestrian figure on top, the 'Will to Peace'. After the Second World War Gross added the bronze lions to the cenotaph. The Athlete and The Swan on the Domain gates, Auckland.
Pegasus spurning underfoot the victor's spoils of war and rising into the heavens, enabl[ing] his rider to emerge from the deluge of blood and tears, and to receive the great spiritual assurance of peace. [1] On 2 September 2013, new plans for the cenotaph were presented including a new staircase and water feature up to the Parliament Buildings ...