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Anzac Day wreath-laying, 1931

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Anzac Day wreath-laying, 1931

After the First World War, Anzac Day (25 April) became a high point in the vice-regal calendar. Here Lord Bledisloe (on the left in the pair at front) is about to lay a wreath at the new Wellington cenotaph on Anzac Day 1931.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-NZ Obits-Bledisloe, Lord

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Gavin McLean, Governors and governors-general – Ceremonial duties, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33652/anzac-day-wreath-laying-1931 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gavin McLean, published 30 January 2012.