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April 26, 2024
PNG Post-Courier In the early hours of ANZAC Day, aerial photographs captured an impressive gathering of Australians and Papua New Guineans at Isurava in the Northern (Oro) Province. The solemn dawn service yesterday was held at a site steeped in history, where some of the fiercest battles of World War II unfolded along the Kokoda ... <a title="Solemn ANZAC dawn service at PNG’s Isurava battle memorial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/26/solemn-anzac-dawn-service-at-pngs-isurava-battle-memorial/" aria-label="Read more about Solemn ANZAC dawn service at PNG’s Isurava battle memorial">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day 2024. Praising the courage and ... <a title="OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/opm-leaders-open-letter-condemns-australias-treachery-over-papua/" aria-label="Read more about OPM leader’s open letter condemns Australia’s ‘treachery’ over Papua">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2023
RNZ Pacific An Anzac memorial service was held above the site in the South China Sea where a Japanese freighter — which had been carrying more than a 1000 prisoners — was sunk by an American submarine in 1942. The Montevideo Maru, carrying soldiers and civilians captured when Japan invaded Rabaul in Papua New Guinea ... <a title="Anzac ceremony to recall those who died on torpedoed Japanese freighter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/30/anzac-ceremony-to-recall-those-who-died-on-torpedoed-japanese-freighter/" aria-label="Read more about Anzac ceremony to recall those who died on torpedoed Japanese freighter">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2023
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Anzac dawn ceremonies have been held across the Pacific region, with tributes paid to both Anzac and Pacific Island soldiers killed in the two world wars. Papua New Guinea In Papua New Guinea, World War II veterans were among those who attended a dawn service held at the Bomana ... <a title="Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/26/tributes-made-to-anzac-and-pacific-soldiers-killed-in-world-wars/" aria-label="Read more about Tributes made to Anzac and Pacific soldiers killed in world wars">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Katie Pickles, University of Canterbury What happened on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey 108 years ago has shocked and shaped Aotearoa New Zealand ever since. The challenge in the 21st century, then, is how best to give contemporary relevance to such an epochal event. The essence of the Anzac story is well known. ... <a title="New lessons about old wars: keeping the complex Anzac Day story relevant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/25/new-lessons-about-old-wars-keeping-the-complex-anzac-day-story-relevant/" aria-label="Read more about New lessons about old wars: keeping the complex Anzac Day story relevant">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2022
RNZ Pacific Pacific countries held dawn services today to commemorate Anzac Day and recognise the 107th anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli in Turkey. Tonga paid tribute to its war veterans with a dawn ceremony held in Nuku’alofa this morning. The ceremony took place on the Royal Palace grounds of King Tupou VI with prayers ... <a title="Anzac Day remembered at dawn services across the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/28/anzac-day-remembered-at-dawn-services-across-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Anzac Day remembered at dawn services across the Pacific">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2021
RNZ News A New Zealand veteran who fought in Korea told of his experience of war and the horror of seeing napalm used for the first time. Gordon Sutherland, from Johnsonville, attended today’s Anzac Day dawn national service in Wellington. “I’ll always remember what an experience it was to see, sitting on the hill, on ... <a title="Anzac Day war stories: The horror of napalm in Korea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/25/anzac-day-war-stories-the-horror-of-napalm-in-korea/" aria-label="Read more about Anzac Day war stories: The horror of napalm in Korea">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2021
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom In late 1913 one of the most famous men in Britain arrived in Pago Pago. Rupert Brooke, 26, was a literary sensation at the time and was taking an escape from celebrity to explore the South Seas: “I want to walk a thousand miles, and write a thousand ... <a title="An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/25/an-anzac-story-samoas-link-to-that-wartime-foreign-field/" aria-label="Read more about An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Today’s Anzac Day Smithometer Chart shows the fatal impact in New Zealand of World War 1 battles at Gallipoli and on the Somme in France. (Earlier this week the Smithometer showed the impact of 1917 WW1 battles in Belgium – Messines and Passchendaele – and the dramatic, though short-lived, impact of ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Smithometer: New Zealand’s World War 1 Mortality Peaks 1915-16" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/24/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-smithometer-new-zealands-world-war-1-mortality-peaks-1915-16/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Smithometer: New Zealand’s World War 1 Mortality Peaks 1915-16">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2019
Political Roundup: A different sort of Anzac Day by Dr Bryce Edwards It’s a very different Anzac Day this year. In recent years this remembrance day has been steadily transforming. Most notably, becoming more popular, with attendance at ceremonies up, and an apparently more interested population in general. Last year’s centenary also bolstered the importance ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A different sort of Anzac Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/25/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-a-different-sort-of-anzac-day/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A different sort of Anzac Day">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2015
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