A museum in France will be built with the help of Nelson College old boys, celebrating connections forged in World War I. Nelson college old boy, former deputy prime minister and former secretary-general of the commonwealth Sir Don McKinnon is helping to raise funds for the long-running project in his role as the chair of […]
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Bureaucracy is being blamed for standing in the way of a kiwi-led war memorial museum in France getting underway. Since a key piece of legislation was passed in March, the project has been progressing well, museum trust chair Sir Don McKinnon said.
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The 100th anniversary of the liberation of Le Quesnoy in World War I was marked in Cambridge with a special remembrance of light, song, sounds, art and celebration. It saw Cambridge Town Hall’s front transformed into a temporary movie screen as a giant projector showed a 3½-minute long movie using footage of WWI.
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A hundred years ago, towards the end of World War I, New Zealand soldiers liberated a small French town – and they have not forgotten it. On Sunday in Le Quesnoy, New Zealanders and French locals alike gathered to remember the 4th Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, who used ladders to scale the fortress defences […]
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Hundreds of Kiwis have flooded into a small town in northern France to commemorate one of New Zealand’s finest moments of the First World War. It’s been exactly 100 years since Kiwi soldiers cunningly snuck into Le Quesnoy defeated the Germans, and liberated thousands of local residents.
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