Our amazing Anzac 2015 tour is operating and it’s with pleasure we advise that Cliff Simons, Military Historian and Defence Force Educator now joins the tour as an historian. We are excited to have Cliff along with Stephen Clarke, Chris Pugsley (in an advisory capacity) and Glyn Harper as our war history experts on tour. Some important aspects: As advised by John McLeod Director Heritage, Commemorations, and Protocol Group HQ NZ Defence Force, there has been a web site set up for the ballot process. See gallipoli2015.govt.nz. The web site says: On 25 April 2015, we will commemorate the centenary of the ANZAC landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. What followed in 1915 was a bitter eight-month campaign that helped to forge our nation. Australia and New Zealand conduct three commemorative services at Gallipoli on Anzac Day each year. The Dawn Service at the Anzac Commemorative Site is jointly conducted by both countries and is followed by an Australian Memorial Service at Lone Pine, and a New Zealand Memorial Service at Chunuk Bair. As the Anzac Commemorative Site has a limited capacity, anticipated demand to attend represents a challenge to ensuring a secure, safe and comfortable visitor experience, while maintaining the dignity and solemnity of the centenary commemorations. The New Zealand attendance pass ballot web site as advised by Cultural & Heritage will open earliest from Friday 01st November 2013. The New Zealand component of the ballot will be restricted to New Zealand citizens and holders of New Zealand permanent resident visas (regardless of where they currently reside) aged 18 years and over as of 25 April 2015. Based around this information we now ask all travellers deposited or who have registered interest in our unique tour to note 01st November date which will be the earliest time the ballot can be applied for. Advice of success or not will be March/April 2014
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 03:01:23 +0000