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Anzac Day: Visiting a foreign land intimately connected with New Zealand
The modern Kiwi connections keeping the Anzac memory alive on the Western Front.
France: Unearthing the final casualty of the First World War
The official estimate of war dead from the final day is 10,900, almost certainly low.
100 Kiwi Stories: Sexual health pioneer was 'guardian angel of Anzacs'
97: The headstone near a whitewashed church in Rarotonga reads, "In memory of Ettie A. Hornibrook."
100 Kiwi Stories: Trooper died before learning of VC
96: Lawrence Weathers was an undertaker by trade and a soldier by choice. He was also one of four New Zealanders awarded the Victoria Cross while serving in the Imperial Australian Army.
100 Kiwi Stories: NZ soldier's Kodak moment
95: Gerald Mawley liked to push the boundaries.
100 Kiwi Stories: Soldiers pioneered plastic surgery
94: When two medical men signed up for World War I, they hoped to make a difference by treating the wounded. But nothing could prepare them for what they saw.
100 Kiwi Stories: Trophy honours bunion battler
93: A soldier plagued by wartime foot injuries later had an Auckland rugby league trophy named after him - the William Devanney Stormont Shield.
100 Kiwi Stories: Pupil's life cut short by sniper's bullet
92: On the honours board at Dilworth School the name of one pupil - Eric Guest Ancell - is inescapable.
100 Kiwi Stories: Foul end for battlefield hero
91: Southland surgeon-captain was tending wounded men when bayoneted by Germans.
100 Kiwi Stories: Honour roll tribute to campaigner
90: Percival Beaumont Greenhough had always been a military man.
100 Kiwi Stories: From the Western Front
89: By the end of 1918, there was barely a street in New Zealand where a door hadn't been darkened by the war.
100 Kiwi Stories: Young soldier keeps silent watch
88: Almost 100 years after he died in the uniform of another country, soldier Alexander Ormond stands firm in relief beside the pounding Pacific.
100 Kiwi Stories: Fearless horseman loved adventure
87: Frank Twisleton loved service and he loved adventure. A Yorkshireman, the young Twisleton emigrated to New Zealand with his parents and brother Thomas in 1895.
100 Kiwi Stories: Journo fought war with words
86: Rifleman Clifford Nightingale was more familiar with the pen than the sword when he sailed with hundreds of reinforcements to join troops on the Western Front.
Royal encounter for veterans' families
The Prince of Wales and Prince Harry have met relatives of veterans of the Gallipoli Campaign who 100 years ago were on the eve of history.
My favourite public holiday
I'd have to say, if push came to shove came to world war, that of all the public holidays we get to enjoy in this splendid country, Anzac Day is the one I would pick as my favourite.
Al Gillespie: Dying empire fanned flames of war
The day after the landings on April 26, the Allies enticed Italy to change sides, in another secret treaty whereby they were promised they too could have part of the Ottoman empire.
Gallipoli in Minecraft - Flythrough
The landscape of war is being recreated in an online game of Minecraft that will appeal to all ages. The Gallipoli in Minecraft exhibition at Auckland Museum opens tomorrow and runs until October 11. A virtual world recreating the 1915 Gallipoli landscape in the popular game of Minecraft will be downloadable from Anzac Day.
Gallipoli in Minecraft - Behind the scenes
A behind the scenes look at the making of Gallipoli in Minecraft, a virtual world recreating the 1915 Gallipoli landscape. The Gallipoli in Minecraft exhibition at Auckland Museum opens tomorrow and runs until October 11.
WWI trenches come to life
A central Auckland street came to a standstill today as a re-enactment of Kiwi men away at war in 1915 played out.
Gallipoli: Soldiers frozen in time
“Gallipoli: The scale of our war” depicts monuments of seven soldiers and a nurse in moments frozen in time.
Running the Turkish gauntlet - with mules
Garibaldi Bitossi spent seven months in the living hell that was Gallipoli. Yet the Hunterville veteran never wore his medals, nor attended Anzac Day commemorations.
Sir Peter re-creates battle
Sir Peter Jackson has re-created his most epic battle scene yet, with a giant Gallipoli diorama.