[NZhistory.net.nz] Military mascots and Anzac Day

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Welcome to the NZHistory.net.nz newsletter, 24 April 2008

NEW TOPIC
Military Mascots
New Zealanders have one of the highest pet ownership rates in the world.
Wartime was no different. Take a tour through this menagerie of military
mascots - dogs,  cats, donkeys, monkeys, pigs, goats and birds. There's
the famous white bull terrier Major 'Major', along with the less
well-known - but very cute - slow lauris adopted by the 1RNZIR in
Borneo. See them all here:
www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/mascots 


ANZAC DAY RESOURCES
Check out the range of Anzac Day material available through Ministry for
Culture and Heritage websites:

Anzac Day (www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/101).
History of the day and the Anzac tradition. 

Gallipoli Campaign (www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/711). 
Discover how British (including New Zealand) and French forces battled
the Ottoman Empire - modern Turkey - for control of the Gallipoli
peninsula for nine months in 1915.

Memorials Register (www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/3927).
Make a virtual visit to your local memorial through our register of over
450 memorials -  tell us if you can't find it here.

Anzac Day in The Classroom (www.nzhistory.net.nz/node/4118). 
Activities and a quiz to help with teaching students about Anzac Day and
the Gallipoli Campaign.

War and Society (www.nzhistory.net.nz/war-and-society). 
A huge range of material about the experiences of New Zealand and New
Zealanders at war in the 19th and 20th centuries. 

Anzac Day - A Guide for New Zealanders (www.anzac.govt.nz). 
Information on the significance of Anzac Day, how we commemorate it
today and a virtual guide of the Gallipoli peninsula. It features a
searchable database of all New Zealanders who died at Gallipoli.

Anzac Day Events
Find out what is going on in your area on Anzac Day at NZLive.com:
www.nzlive.com/en/index?type=event&sort=ranking&what=anzac&search_action
=search


Please contact us at info at nzhistory.net.nz if you have any questions or
comments about these web features.
NZHistory.net.nz team



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