War has deprived thousands of southern families of loved ones, but not every war story involves a battlefield. Mike Houlahan explores the story of Otago farmer Frederick Hugh Russell.
The sun shone down on about 300 people, veterans, families, dignitaries and members of the public, who gathered at Montecillo War Veterans Home on Anzac Day.
A beautiful, clear morning greeted more than 400 people who turned out to pay their respects at the Andersons Bay Cemetery posy laying ceremony on Anzac Day.
The hall at HMNZS Toroa naval reserve headquarters was a hive of industry on Monday, as volunteers gathered to make more than 4000 posies to be laid on graves in the services section of...
Isla (5) and Emily (9) Munro make posies at Dunedin’s Naval Reserve headquarters HMNZS Toroa, in St Andrew St, yesterday as the tradition of posy making returned to the city ahead of Anzac Day.
It is not always easy to make it to the Anzac Day dawn service, which is why a pair of bagpipes could be heard coming from a Dunedin residential village later in the morning.
The Returned and Services Association (RSA) has made the decision to cancel any public Anzac Day events this year and is postponing its national Poppy Day appeal.
A century after New Zealand's deadliest day in history, two Wakatipu High School pupils will publicly pay tribute to two men who had very different war-time experiences.