Regional Fields of Remembrance Project

Four regional Fields of Remembrance in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin will be established at ANZAC Day each year until 2018. They will consist of a named cross for every New Zealander from that region who served in that regions regiment and died in service that year. For those who served in other units every effort has been made to place them in their home region. Red poppies symbolising hope and regrowth are placed by every cross.
The numbers will increase progressively each year until there is a cross for every soldier killed in World War One.

On Armistice Day 2018 to commemorate the ending of the First World War there will be a field of 18,277 crosses in the Auckland Domain. 
Considerable research has been undertaken to compile a database of 18,277 names; using the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as a base and adhering to their dates of between 9 August 1914 to 31 August 1921, for those who lost their lives in the war.
Additional sources have been consulted including:
· The Great War, 1914-1918. New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Roll of Honour. Government Printer, 1924.
· Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph.
· Papers Past Data base / National Library of New Zealand.
· Births Death and Marriage historical Records.
Every effort has been made to find those New Zealanders who served with overseas forces, e.g. British and Australian.

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