Neil Finn has re-recorded the 1940s Kiwi classic Blue Smoke — a song written and first played on a WWII troopship with lyrics about a soldier’s hopes to return home — with one of the musicians who played on the original.
In 1942, when young radio operator Johnny Jones was sent to Auckland Islands as a radio operator, he recalls a country on edge.
On March 26, the last of the southern coastwatchers, John Stuart Jones, was to have voyaged to the Auckland Islands with an expedition to restore his old home in Ranui Cove.
Les Munro's World War II medals could prove a visual inspiration and reminder to all young New Zealanders of the stuff that real heroes are made of, writes Peter Bromhead.
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.
Survivor of the Anzac Day helicopter crash Sergeant Stevin Creeggan has endured years of pain and humiliating treatment from the Air Force, but his family are speaking out.
Young New Zealanders have been urged by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae to visit the battlefields and cemeteries of Europe, not just Gallipoli.
Communities came together at dawn services around the country yesterday to honour and remember Anzacs.
As a young boy Willie Apiata sat close to his grandfather on Anzac Day and was puzzled by the laughter that mixed with sadness, and eyes that "watered just a little bit".
It happens every year now on April 25: Maori Television morphs into our very own history channel, writes Greg Dixon
With his dad's medals proudly pinned to his chest, Julian Price waits to join the parade. Townsfolk are still spilling out of Mackenzie Community Centre in Fairlie, surprised to see rainclouds replaced by autumnal sunshine.
Thousands of people assembled outside the Auckland War Memorial Museum this morning to commemorate New Zealand's "contribution to freedom".
On the day to remember the fallen, huge crowds gathered to pay their respects in Mt. Maunganui.
Watch highlights from the Auckland War Memorial Museum as thousands gathered to commemorate New Zealand's "contribution to freedom". courtesy Maori Television
Kiwis commemorate April 25 as one today, from the child learning about war history, to the veterans who saw fighting at close quarters
'At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them." Another Anzac Day - although it's not the big one - next year will be the centennial of that dreadful exercise in military futility known in English as the Gallipoli Campaign.
The daughter of a World War I veteran is distraught after her father's medals were lost by a courier company.
George Ward was a tank gunner in Italy in WWII. The Anzac veteran, who still lives in the house he built in Henderson after the war, raised three daughters alone after his wife died of cancer. He turned 99 last Saturday.
With a generous smile and glinting eyes, Dipak Ghale speaks passionately and softly about the importance of family.
In the closing minutes of this stirring story of 14 New Zealanders sent to the front in World War I, the main character, explained for the umpteenth time that he was not a soldier.
When Paul Southwick embarked on a lengthy search for his father's World War II acquaintances, the best he hoped for was a few words of remembrance, maybe a photo.
An Anzac Day documentary tells the story of a Kiwi soldier who comforted the dying.
In 1942, at the age of 49, World War One hero Ormond Burton went on trial in the Supreme Court at Wellington.
A Singapore-based Kiwi couple were among 950 NZers selected from a ballot to attend the 100th anniversary of the Anzac landing in Gallipoli next year.
Thousands of people have attended Anzac Day services around New Zealand and across the globe.
A large crowd gathered in the corner of a wheat field yesterday to bury four British soldiers they never knew, who were killed in World War I nearly a century ago.