68: John Martin was born by the sea, worked on the water around New Zealand and finally surrendered to the ocean when he went to serve.

67: The Great War was over. Lance Corporal Cyril Beattie was on a demobilisation train crossing Germany.

One million coloured coins will be released next month to mark the centenary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

66: Sheep farmer Percy Overton was 37 when he sailed for war in October 1914.

65: Evan Hudson's family made sure he would not be forgotten.

64: War-weary soldiers forgot their troubles when they saw the New Zealand Pierrots take to the stage.

63: Inscribed on one of the bells in the National War Memorial is a tribute to Leslie Heron Beauchamp.

62: William Clachan was made of tough stuff. The Wellington schoolteacher was wounded three times on the Western Front.

61: Today we might call them special forces. When Robert Kenneth Nicol joined a top secret British Army unit in 1918, it was known as the "hush-hush brigade".

58: He was a dashing English gent of Maori descent with a daring need for speed, who became the first airman to win a Victoria Cross in World War I.

57: One hundred and forty chaplains accompanied New Zealand forces to war.

57: Important chapters in Alfred Shout's life took place on both sides of the Tasman and he is remembered with pride in New Zealand and Australia.

One Christmas story above all deserves a run this year: the sound of Silent Night from the trenches in the first Christmas of the Great War.

55: For five anxious years the troopships set sail from New Zealand, carrying her men in uniform away to war.

54: Nothing seemed to frighten Dick Travis. His turf was No Man's Land, the zone of death between enemy trenches and his regiment's frontlines.

53: Malcolm Ross was New Zealand's first official war correspondent.

52: To be Irish but fighting for Britain was to be conflicted.

Jack Tame writes: John Mulgan died on Anzac Day, 1945 - an intentional morphine overdose, three days before the end of the war. Today he lies in a quiet cemetery in Cairo.

49: Trooper James Magnusson was hard to miss.

48: A third of the kauri bushman who went to war did not return home and today a memorial plaque on the landward side of Lion Rock records 49 names in their memory.

47: On November 3 1918, returned soldier Reuben Baldwin, 41, died suddenly in his sister's Hawera bed. Love of the odd drink had turned into a full-blown addiction. Private Baldwin drank himself to death just eight days before the war ended.

Wanaka man Duncan Boswell has won his battle to get to Gallipoli. He and son Rhys will be part of the New Zealand contingent attending the centenary of the World War I Anzac campaign.

46: Clive Collett had flown nearly 1200 hours in dozens of different aircraft when he took to the air in a captured German plane over the Firth of Forth.

November 11 has special significance for Tauranga woman Justine Neal and her family - her late father's cousin, Private Alvar Francis Fenton, served in World War I and never came home.

Armistice Day commemorations of the end of hostilities on the Western Front in World War I will involve services around New Zealand at 11am today.

Prince Harry returned to Afghanistan today on behalf of the Queen as he led emotional tributes to his friends who died in the name of war.

44: Hastings-born George Masters took part in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 before being posted to Europe. His bravery was recorded in the London Gazette

43: In spring 1916, General Sir Tom Bridges won something unusual in a Red Cross Raffle in Paris - a lion.

On board the troop ship Aparima in 1915, Neville Hawkes was in high spirits as he penned a postcard to his little brother.

41: The Gallipoli landings occurred on April 25, 1915. It was eight months of bloodshed before evacuations began in December.