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2024
12 December (MMMHP) – “The 80th Anniversary of 3rd (NZ) Division in the Pacific”, by LTCOL Dr Peter Wood, ONZM, Director of the NZ Wars Study Centre, NZDC
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12 November – Guest Seminar – Prof. Mesut Uyar – Military History and PME: Soldiers, Historians and Social Scientists
Hosted by the School of People, Environment and Planning – Massey University
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11 November (EPLP) – Remembrance Day – “Memory, remembrance and amnesia of the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey, by Col (Rtd) Prof Mesut Uyar, PhD, PD, Professor of Military History, Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia
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22 October (EPLP) – “NZ Forces into Samoa in the First World War, in 1914”, by LTCOL DR Peter Wood, ONZM, RNZIR, Director of the NZ Wars Study Centre, NZDC
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10 October (MMMHP) – NZ Land Wars Month – “The Battle for Orakau”, by LTCOL (Rtd) Dr Cliff Simons, ED
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12 September (MMMHP) – “70th Anniversary of RNZN Support to the Borneo/Malaysia Conflict”, by CDR (Rtd) Richard Jackson, RNZN
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27 August (EPLP) – “Operation DRAGOON – Second D-Day into France in August 1944”, by Dennis O’Rourke, RNZN and NZ Police (Rtd)
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21 August – Book launch: Adam Claasen’s “Grid: the life and times of First World War fighter ace Keith Caldwell”
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8 August (MMMHP) – “30th Anniversary of UNPROFOR and the Bosnian Conflict”, by BRIG (Rtd) Jon Broadley, MBE, Colonel Commandant, Royal NZ Army Logistics Regiment (RNZALR)
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11 July “The 80th Anniversary of the D-Day (Normandy) Landings in France”, by RADM (Rtd) David Ledson, former Chief of the RNZN
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25 June (EPLP) – “The 80th Anniversary of the RNZAF Flying Boats and other aircraft of 5 Sqn, RNZAF”, by GPCAPT (Rtd) Rick Bulger and SQNLDR (Rtd) Hugh Francis, RNZAF
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13 June “The 25th Anniversary of the East Timor/Timor L’este Conflict”, by LTCOL Martin Dransfield, ONZM, RNZIR Waitangi Tribunal Project Director, Army General Staff, NZDF
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9 May “The 60th Anniversary of Konfrontasi – the Borneo/Malaysia Conflict”, by WO1 (Rtd) Dave Hayward, MBE, MSM, RNZIR, 4th Sergeant Major of the NZ Army
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24 April EPLP “The 160th Anniversary of QAMR”, by LTCOL Jacob Murray, RNZIR, Commanding Officer, Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifle (QAMR), Linton Military Camp.
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11 April (MMMHP) – The Royal NZ Army Medical Corps and Awapuni Medical Memorial, by Deployable Health Organisation, Joint Services Group, NZDF (Linton Camp). “Preparing Medics for the War: WW1 to the Present Day” Maj Andrew Brookes, XO DHO, RNZAMC.
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26 Mar (EPLP) – “(BRIG) Sir Geoffrey Peren: His Lifelong Connection with the Land”, by LTCOL DR Peter Wood, ONZM
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14 Mar “The 80th Anniversary of the Battle for Cassino” (Feb-Mar 1944), by LTCOL (Rtd) Dr Glyn Harper, QSM
Original powerpoint (Slide 7 image was modified for website display above.)
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8 Feb “28th Maori Battalion” in the Second World War and the “75th Anniversary of the song “Blue Smoke” release, by Ruma Karaitiana, Rangitane
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“Blue Smoke” song