Sunday, November 18, 2018

Armistice Day 2018

One hundred years after the end of World War One I attended the Armistice Day commemoration in Te Awamutu with my mother. She belongs to the local RSA so we marched behind the official party to ANZAC Green and watched the ceremony to remember the fallen soldiers and mark the moment a hundred years ago that the guns fell silent. Due to our time zone New Zealand was the first country in the world to mark the event at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. I think Te Awamutu was the first place in the world to mark the event because everyone was ready and the MC said we may as well get started and the bells tolled a few minutes early! 


1) Armistice Day service Te Awamutu 2018. Iraq & Afghanistan vets lay a wreath.
2) Peace Memento given to Waiuku school children. My grandmother received this one.
3) Gilbert Heald 1882-1915. My great grandfather's brother who was killed at Gallipoli. 
4) Crosses outside Feilding Fire Station in 2018 commemorating local volunteer firemen who died in World War One. Gilbert Heald's cross is front row, second from left.  

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