RELATED TO GRAVE OF DONALD FORRESTER BROWN VC
Events
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31 May 1916
HMS New Zealand fights in the Battle of Jutland
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11 April 1916
Arrival of the NZ Division in France
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21 August 1915
New Zealand mounteds attack Hill 60
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16 October 1914
Main Body of NZEF sails to war
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5 August 1914
New Zealand enters the First World War
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28 June 1914
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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8 February 1915
Ambush in Turkey leads to death of New Zealand seaman
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30 April 1917
William Sanders wins New Zealand's only naval VC
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24 September 1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident
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25 August 1916
First New Zealand soldier executed
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9 May 1915
Kiwi Wimbledon champ killed in battle
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28 April 1941
Jack Hinton wins the Victoria Cross
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2 April 1915
Anzac soldiers riot in Cairo's Wazzir brothel district
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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28 January 1901
Hardham wins VC in South Africa
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7 June 1917
The Battle of Messines
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26 June 1918
Wimmera sunk by German mine
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8 August 1915
Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
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12 October 1917
NZ's ‘blackest day’ at Passchendaele
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29 August 1914
NZ force captures German Samoa
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7 October 1917
German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in NZ
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11 May 1945
Upham presented with VC
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15 December 1915
The evacuation of Gallipoli begins
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2 June 1917
NZ steamer captured by the Wolf
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11 February 1864
Charles Heaphy recommended for VC
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10 March 1869
New Zealand Cross created
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