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“News came through late last night that armistice had been signed, and hostilities ceased at 11 a.m. Thank God!”So the commander of the New Zealand Division, Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, wrote in his diary on 11 November 1918.
After four years of the greatest conflict then known in human history – involving 100,000 New Zealanders and at a cost of 16,000 of their lives to that time – the Armistice meant soldiers no longer had to dream of homecomings but could finally dare to believe they would actually see home and loved ones again.
Please join us at The Cenotaph in the Court of Honour at the northern end of the Auckland Museum in The Domain, next Wednesday, 11 November, at 11am (please be assembled by 10.45am) as we commemorate the 108th anniversary of the Armistice and remember the service and sacrifice of New Zealanders in the First World War.
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The Cenotaph Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
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