Today is the 99th anniversary of the signing – at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month – of the armistice which ended World War I.
My maternal grandfather served with the New Zealand Army.
Mum said he never talked about the war and buried his medals in his garden.
We got his records from the War Archives and found his occupation was farmhand and that he looked after the horses in Egypt.
A bronze war horse by artist Matt Gauldie to acknowledge the 10,000 New Zealand horses that served in WW1 will be unveiled at Memorial Park, Hamilton at 11am this morning.
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