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Major Events in the Canterbury Region

2014

9 November 2014

Remembrance Sunday (with Armistice Day commemoration)
Remembrance Park, Christchurch

11 November 2014  

175th Anniversary of the NZ Cadets Forces to be marked on Armistice Day RSA     
Remembrance Park, Christchurch

2015

25 April 2015           

National commemoration: Centenary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli – Turkey

Dawn Service to mark centenary of ANZAC landings at Gallipoli

Civic Service to mark centenary of ANZAC landings at Gallipoli

11 November 2015  

Armistice Day Service, Christchurch
Remembrance Park, Christchurch

December 2015

Centenary of the founding of the Christchurch RSA
New RSA premises

2016

25 April 2016

 Anzac Day Services, Christchurch

15 September 2016

National commemoration:  Centenary of the Battle of the Somme – France

11 November 2016

Armistice Day Service, Christchurch

2017

25 April 2017

Anzac Day Services, Christchurch

7 June 2017

 National commemoration:  Centenary of the Battle of Messines – Leper, Belgium

12 October 2017

National commemoration:  Centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele – Belgium

 

31 October 2017

National commemoration:  Centenary of the Battle of Beersheba – Israel

11 November 2017

Armistice Day Service, Christchurch

 2018

25 April 2018

Anzac Day Services, Christchurch

4 November 2018

National commemoration:  Centenary of the Liberation of Le Quesnoy – France

11 November 2018

Centenary of Armistice Day, Christchurch

National event:  White crosses from RSAs right across the country all displayed in Wellington