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Auckland War Memorial Museum's Online Cenotaph is a biographical database and living memorial to people who served for Aotearoa New Zealand in conflict. This project will utilise the extensive and ever-growing database to create, strengthen and diversify information about Aotearoa New Zealand's war history.
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.
Richard Bolt - bomber pilot with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II; later Chief of the Air Staff from 1974 to 1976 and then Chief of the Defence Staff from 1976 to 1980 [61] Sir William Gentry - officer who served with the 2NZEF during World War II; later Chief of General Staff, New Zealand Army, from 1952 to 1955 [ 62 ]
Online Cenotaph Edit-a-thon: Will support the Wikiproject x Online Cenotaph which aims to increase content on Wikimedia drawing from Auckland Museum’s Online Cenotaph database. Migrants of Colour Stories Aotearoa Edit-a-thon: Will support the Wikiproject Migrants of Colour Stories Aotearoa and call out to community to get involved creating ...
The Papakura Museum is a local museum created to recognise and honour the history of Papakura, Drury, and surrounding districts, in New Zealand. This has historically included Franklin , Manurewa , Clevedon , and Kawakawa Bay , as well as other neighbourhoods and districts nearby. [ 1 ]
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.
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 ...
Ronald Douglas Patrick Hassett was born in Wellington on 27 May 1923. [1] He was educated at St Patrick's College, where he served in the cadets.His military career commenced in 1941, when he went to the Australian Army's Royal Military College at Duntroon as a cadet of the New Zealand Military Forces.