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The National War Memorial of New Zealand is located next to the Dominion Museum building on Buckle Street, in Wellington, the nation's capital. The war memorial was dedicated in 1932 on Anzac Day (25 April) in commemoration of the First World War .
The New Zealand Wars Memorial in Auckland commemorates imperial and Māori troops during the New Zealand Wars who were allied with British forces. The statue was commissioned by the Victoria League and sculpted by Thomas Eyre Macklin. The statue has been frequently subject to protests since its opening in 1920. [1]
The Hokitika Clock Tower, initially called the Westland War Memorial and then the Coronation and War Memorial, is a prominent landmark in Hokitika, New Zealand.The memorial was initiated, fundraised for, and carried out by a committee, to commemorate the region's contribution to the Second Boer War; not just the four local men who had died but all 130 who had gone to war in South Africa.
The First World War Memorial Beacon is a war memorial on Quay Street in Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand. New Zealand's first built World War I memorial, it was first unveiled in 1915, before being lost in the 1960s. It was rediscovered and restored in 1999–2000, at which time it was placed outside the New Zealand Maritime Museum. It ...
It is a Category I heritage structure registered with Heritage New Zealand. Between 2021 and 2022, the memorial was repaired and shifted 50 metres (160 ft) to the west. The Citizens' War Memorial was used for the 2023 ANZAC day dawn service in Christchurch. [1]
The government said the decision to cancel the event planned at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park was made for the health and safety of veterans, visitors and guests, The New Zealand Herald reported.
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.
Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, also known as Pukeahu Park, is situated in front of the National War Memorial in the suburb of Mt Cook, Wellington, New Zealand. It opened on 18 April 2015 in time for the centenary of the World War I Gallipoli landings , and was one of the New Zealand Government's key projects to commemorate the 100th ...