Armistice Day 2007

LT COL Beck and COL Creagh lay a wreath during the ceremony at ISAF HQ. WN-07-0048-82-tn.jpg.

New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) contingents from Afghanistan to Antarctica marked Armistice Day with ceremonial services on Sunday 11 November. Meanwhile, in small provincial centres throughout New Zealand local Cadets Corps members solemnly marked Armistice Day 2007.

In Antarctica the NZDF contingent at Scott Base hosted a Remembrance Day Celebration with over one hundred participants from both the United States and New Zealand military contingents.

In Afghanistan the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, Afghanistan, marked a significant double occasion for personnel from both the New Zealand and Australian. Both countries service to ISAF was honoured by naming the new accommodation block as the ANZAC. Most of the buildings within the HQ compound have been given a name associated with the location of the military headquarters of each contributing nation.

In Wellington NZDF personnel mounted a dawn to dusk vigil over the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the National War Memorial in Buckle Street Wellington commemorating Armistice Day on 11 November.

Armistice Day marks the anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War and commemorates the sacrifice of those who died serving New Zealand in this and all wars and armed conflicts.

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A wreath-laying ceremony was held at the National War Memorial and at many local War Memorials throughout the country. As part of these ceremonies, two minutes of silence were observed at 11am in memory of those New Zealanders who died serving their country.

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front, with the signing of the Armistice on 11 November 1918.