Authored by videographer Ginés Pastor Espuch & digital producer Mana Wikaire-Lewis.
Tag: World War II. Showing results 1 - 10 of 12
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News500 Māori Battalion medals still with NZDF
The lawyer who has been on a years long mission to reunite whānau with their missing WWII medals is renewing his call for descendants of the 28th Māori Battalion to apply to receive their ancestors' unclaimed war medals.
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Thousands commemorate ANZACs in services across motu
Thousands have gathered across Aotearoa to commemorate ANZAC day with the Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine) paying tribute to the more than 250,000 New Zealanders who have served overseas, and highlighting concerns about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Ka mate ā Ururoa- The Shark of War
This is the inspirational story of one of Aotearoa’s most outstanding Māori war heroes, Hokianga-born Harding Waipuke Leaf (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu), who was awarded the military cross for bravery and who fought in both World Wars
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Last Māori Battalion soldier accepts knighthood in honour of comrades
96-year-old Robert Nairn Gillies (Ngāti Whakaue) will be honoured with a knighthood for services to Māori and war commemorations.
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The Liberation of Le Quesnoy
The story of the NZ Division that liberated the town of Le Quesnoy without any loss of life to the civilian population, during WWI. The events of November 4th, 1918 will never be forgotten.
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Grandfathers Footsteps
Director, David Blyth, follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, a WWI soldier. From training at Maadi Camp, Egypt. to the battlefields of North Eastern France, Le Quesnoy and beyond.
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Whītiki
Hear the untold stories of a group of Māori Pioneers through the eyes of their descendants. Descendants now of a similar age to their tupuna when they set off to battle in The Great War.
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Pixie
Follow the life and times of Pixie Williams, the singer of New Zealand's first pressed record and the #1 hit 'Blue Smoke'.
