ANZAC Day

To mark ANZAC Day here in New Zealand, here are some photos from the collection showing War Memorials from around the country.

Wellington: Carillon Tower / National War Memorial (dedicated on Anzac Day 1932). Buckle Street

Wellington: The Wellington Cenotaph / Wellington Citizens’ War Memorial (unveiled on Anzac Day 1931), Lambton Quay

Auckland: The Cenotaph at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, looking north with Devonport and Rangitoto Island in the distance

Christchurch: Bridge of Remembrance

Akaroa: Soldiers’ Memorial

Wanganui: The War Memorial Tower (built 1919, 33.5m tall), Durie Hill

Westport: War Memorial Gates

Palmerston North: War Memorial at Night (unveiled 7th Feb 1926)

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.