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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: minniehaha on Saturday 13 April 19 03:27 BST (UK)
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Many of you no doubt already know about this, but I have only recently become aware of the facility whereby you can digitally place a poppy for 2019.
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/search?n=
A lovely idea.....
Minniehaha.
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Many thanks,
I did not know, and thanks to your thread, I and my siblings have been able to lay poppies, for four of our NZ ancestors who fell WWI, Western Front.
LEST WE FORGET
I wonder if perhaps a mention of this thread should be placed on the Australia board, I am sure I am not the only RChatter with NZ ancestry.
JM
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Hi JM. As you say.....
"LEST WE FORGET"
I think it a good idea to mention this on the Australia board.
Would you like to do this :) Or would you rather I did?
Minniehaha.
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Thank you for your personal message J M. I have passed on your suggestion to the higher authority ;D
Minniehaha.
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Hi.
With a bit of luck this link might take you more directly to the poppy page.
http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/how-to-contribute
Alan.
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An extra dimension will be added to our local ANZAC service this year. Our community had gone without a service for a number of years, when we no longer had a local RSA member to co-ordinate a service.
Then about a dozen years ago, our local rural Presbyterian, and Anglican Churches, jointly took it upon themselves to organize a service, that regularly has over 200 attend.
I, and others, supply ANZAC material for display, but unfortunately on Thursday last, 300 people attended the funeral of the Presbyterian Elder, who re-convened our ANZAC services, and annually facilitated them until he retired. He died suddenly while at the beach, aged only 66.
Just last month I supplied historic material to a family, who chose to return to celebrate their first family reunion, in our community. On the Cenotaph two family members are honoured as serving in WWI, and sadly one of whom was also recorded as OUR FALLEN HERO.
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Well today, while a little cloudy at 10am, it was not overcast and damp like recent past local ANZAC services. Not quite as many standing in the hall, so attendance was slightly down at about the 200 mark.
It’s a sad inditement of today’s society, when the Deputy Mayor addresses your local rural ANZAC service, and recounts the wilful vandalism of the Ngaruawahia Cenotaph earlier in the week.
And then to note that while there is usually a strong presence of service personnel in uniform [Ambo, Fire, Police and Armed Forces personnel] today there were two uniformed police in yellow vests, always discretely standing to one side, observing, but not actively joining in on the ANZAC observance. In other words on assigned duty.
In past years youth from the local schools have assisted in the reading of the rolls of honour, but today, a number instead read extracts from letters home, and from wartime diaries. One written on a cigarette packet, they considered quite a novel way around, a shortage of writing paper.
Lest we forget.