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Category Archives: War
Dunedin Cenotaph’s that might have been
A picture of the accepted plan for the cenotaph, featuring frescoes and bronze figures that were not included in the final design due to a lack of funds. Some notes from the judge of the competition held to pick the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, War
Tagged ANZAC, Architecture, civic religion, Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand Social History, NZ
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Concept for a “processional way” for new Auckland war memorial
The project will see a “processional way” built down the grassy bank in front of the Auckland War Memorial Museum to Domain Drive. Photo / Supplied New war memorial designs questioned (Jan 9, 2016) Outside of this blogs usual chronological concerns … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestor Worship, ANZAC, Architecture, Art, Landscape, Monument, New Zealand, NZ, Ritual, Spatial Design, War
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New Zealand troops with tanks, World War One
New Zealand troops march with Whippet light tanks on the first day of (the tanks) deployment, during the spring offensive 1918
Two soldiers belonging to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade wearing two different types of gas mask.
The soldier in the helmet is wearing the British small box respiration that would become standard issue in 1917. the soldier on the left is wearing the Hypo Helmet respirator (location unknown) France 1916. Photograph Album of 26/35 2nd Lieutenant … Continue reading
The Legion of Frontiersmen in New Zealand
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19360320.2.52.1&srpos=32&e=——-10–31—-2legion+of+frontiersmen– Mentioned due to their involvement in the Victor Penny death ray story, the Legion of Frontiersmen was an organisation existing throughout the British Empire, originally founded with the purpose of providing a core of local scouts and guides capable of aiding … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, War
Tagged International, Napier EarthQuake, New Zealand Social History, NZ, War
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Aspects of Civic Religion – ANZAC Day 2015
Documentation of the the public ritual marking 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli. There always feels like a sharp delineation at dawn services between the civil aspect, drawn from a combination of military tradition and the final impulses of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestor Worship, Cult, New Zealand Social History, NZ, Photography, War
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Victor Penny and the New Zealand Death ray
From the New Zealand observer 1937 The Legion of Frontiersmen was a militia organisation dedicated to the defence of the British empire (and existing throughout the empire). In practice it advocated and volunteered for military adventurism involved itself in … Continue reading
Posted in War
Tagged Legion of Frontiersmen, NZ, Object, Prussians of the South Seas, War
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