Armistice Day plans across the region are in place to mark November 11 – the day on which guns fell silent in 1918 at the end of World War 1.
Patriots Defence Force Motorcycle Club member Peter Leslie laying a wreath at Pukeatua War Memorial Church on behalf of the Jemmett family. Private H. Jemmett died during WWI – several Jemmett family relatives were in attendance.
Te Awamutu RSA will begin marking the anniversary at 11am on Sunday by leading a Remembrance Day service at Pukeatua War Memorial Church. Several members of the Hauraki Chapter of the Patriots Defence Force Motorcycle Club will attend as they do each year.
The main service will take place at 11am the following day, Monday November 11, at Te Awamutu’s Anzac Green. It will be followed by a Veterans’ Lunch at the RSA in Alexandra Street.
Armistice Day commemorations in Cambridge will be marked across several days.
On Saturday and Sunday, November 9-10, Armistice in Cambridge returns to Mighty River Domain at Lake Karāpiro. It will be part of the Great Kiwi Summer Festival at the lake.
From 7pm on Saturday, an ‘Armistice Remembrance’ concert will be in the Cambridge Town Hall. Presented by the Cambridge Little Big Band in partnership with the Cambridge Community Board, Waipā District Council’s Armistice committee and the Cambridge Brass Band, the gold coin entry ‘Sentimental Journey’ event will see proceeds go towards the RSA Welfare Fund.
A Remembrance Sunday ceremony will take place at the plaza outside the Cambridge Town Hall, starting at 10.45am on Sunday, and there will be a smaller ceremony at the same place on Monday, starting at 10.50am.
Men from the Te Awamutu RSA at the Pukeatua War Memorial Church. They are, from left, president Lou Brown, John Graham, Graham Smith and Ross Wardlaw.
Graham Smith at the Pukeatua ceremony laying the Te Awamutu RSA remembrance wreath in for the fallen.
