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Final Display for 100 Years of WW1 Commemoration: Open for Versailles Treaty Signing Anniversary

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Photo by Suzie Best, Researcher/Historian & Museum Collections Manager & Archivist, can be re-used under CC BY St Andrews Anglican Church–Honours Board Unveiled On ANZAC Day, 25 th April 2019, the above board, donated to the Otautau Museum, was unveiled and is now on display. Many well-known Otautau area family names are represented on this board. It now forms a part of the 100 Years of WW1 display being exhibited, which will finish on Sunday 30th June, 2019.  So, be sure to come and see this display before it closes.   However, we are opening up another large Memorial on the  anniversary day of the signing of the Versailles Treaty, on 28th June, 2019, when the Museum will be open 10am-4pm to commemorate this major event. I am working hard on putting up a visual remembrance on the wall of each local person who served in WW1, as part of the display by this date, as a final commemoration to all those local men and women who dedicated themselves to serving their King