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Commemorations will be held around New Zealand and at Ypres in France this week to mark the centenary of what has been called “our darkest day”, when 843 New Zealanders were killed in just a few hours on the morning of the 12th of October 1917, near Passchendaele during World War I.
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By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) September 15 marks the centenary of the
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Producer Shelley Wilkinson visits the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa to learn about the shrapnel-torn bugle of twenty-year-old bugler
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By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) 100 years ago this week, the New
Read moreThanks to the power of social media and our colleagues Kiri and Sean at Toitū Otago Settlers Museum, we have
Read more– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) On the 15th of July 1915,
Read more– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) One hundred years ago today, the
Read more– By Sarah Johnston, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Client Services Coordinator – Radio As part of their extensive Anzac Day
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A distinctive accent may be the key to matching a second of the mystery voices of Gallipoli to an identity: Hawke’s
Read moreThe hunt to try and put names to the voices of five Kiwi Gallipoli veterans recorded in “ANZAC,” a 1969
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