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'I slept with bullets flying all round'
Many letters from the front were toned down to spare the feelings of folk back home but others described life at Gallipoli in shocking detail.
Many letters from the front were toned down to spare the feelings of folk back home but others described life at Gallipoli in shocking detail.
What is the weather going to do over the next couple of days?
WATCH: The Gallipoli campaign helped define NZ's sense of nationhood. Our animation explains how it unfolded and how it forged the Anzac spirit.
Evocative animated account gives us a new way to commemorate Gallipoli.
It's likely to be a wet start to the long weekend, but the rain is expected to clear and be replaced by sunny skies for Anzac Day on Monday.
A new book argues the view that World War I is a pointless conflict fails to consider myriad positive experiences that continue to shape our lives today.
It is now almost a year since Anzac Day 2015, when New Zealand and other nations marked the centenary of the ill-fated Gallipoli landings. writes Historian Neill Atikinson.
US president Barack Obama has paid tribute to the "tenacity and loyalty" of New Zealand soldiers who fought at Gallipoli 101 years ago.
A Rotorua organisation is finding innovative ways to introduce our youngest generation to national day of remembrance.
The Gallipoli campaign helped define NZ's sense of nationhood. Our animation explains how it unfolded and how it forged the Anzac spirit.
The RSA has laid a formal complaint against a car company for an advertisement it considers "unacceptable" ahead of Anzac Day.
On the other side of the globe, where the industrial-scale killing of World War I raged on, inaugural Anzac Day commemorations were also marked.
Kiwi celebrities are encouraging fellow New Zealanders to support this year's Returned and Services Association Poppy Appeal.
The ceremony was to be at 10.30am. "None of that dawn service nonsense here," said Isabel.
New Zealanders are being asked to volunteer or undertake an act of service on Anzac Day.
An Anzac Day photo competition has been launched today, designed to collate a snapshot of what the annual holiday means to modern-day Kiwis.
Kiwis travelling to Gallipoli for Anzac Day services are being warned to avoid Turkey's biggest cities.
Former New Zealand First MP Brendan Horan has been told by police there is no evidence to support charges he used money from his dying mother's bank account in an inappropriate way.
An ANZAC Veteran sheds new light with his trench-eye view story in with 'Anzac: A Retrospect'. It now features in a new anthology of New Zealand war writing.
The Herald's #Gallipoli100 campaign has won an award at the annual Social Media New Zealand Awards in Auckland tonight.
It will be brilliant to watch the two teams play in daylight today, and the rescheduled kickoff is expected to attract between 5,000 and 10,000 additional fans into the stadium.
At Walker's Ridge cemetery there is a grave that many stop beside. It catches your breath and gives you a sharp jolt of reality.
The special relationship is the bond encapsulated in the word "Anzac", the union of the soldiers of this country with those of Australia during the ill-fated Turkish campaign.
People share their personal war stories as they hunker down for the long night.