Dispatches from Anzac

Reports from frontlines of Anzac day culture. And Twitter provides a long-lost face for a voice.

By the time you read this, VOG events will have been presented in Christchurch and Palmerston North.

Over the next few days more VOG events will take place live and online.

• The New Zealand Army Museum at Waiouru from 23-26 April

• Toitū The Otago Settlers Museum on Anzac Day 25 April

• Zoom dawn services for UK and NZ for people who can't make a local ceremony presented by me - book your spot to join me here

  • It’s cool if you’re in UK and want to do the NZ one, which is more like 6.33pm on evening of Monday 24th, and similarly for Kiwis, feel free to join me at the UK dawn service, which will be mid-late afternoon your time on the 25th. If you’re in the US or Canada or wherever and a time slot works for you - welcome!

  • I’m don’t wish people to do this in lieu of attending a local, in person Anzac/Gallipoli day event - I just know from my own situation (heavily pregnant wife, live in rural Norfolk) that there are lots of reasons that local and in person isn’t accessible for many people - so here’s…