It's the centenary of Armistice Day today.

100 years since the War to End All Wars ended. 10% of New Zealand's population at the time served in the war, in the capture of German Samoa in 1914, the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915, and on both the Palestine and Western Fronts until the end of the war. 18,000 were lost, including my great-grandfather's best friend. I don't know the friend's name, but the two enlisted together in 1917, underage but still sent to the Western Front, serving from September/October 1917 until the end.

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SW-User

My grandfather served on the western front. He was gassed at the Somme but survived although he died young in the 1940s of TB possibly exacerbated by the damage his lungs had suffered.

I'm just watching the UK national remembrance service from the Albert Hall.

SW-User

@SW-User I think my great-grandfather may have fought at Passchendaele (?), but I don't know for sure.

I'm watching the memorial service at Auckland War Memorial Museum.