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Otago Daily Times
28-05-2025
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- Otago Daily Times
Medical and military past to be celebrated
Te Kura Hauora o Ōtākou/Otago Medical School will celebrate its 150th anniversary over King's Birthday Weekend. PHOTO: ODT FILES The Otago Military History Group will add some authentic historic flavour to Te Kura Hauora o Otakou/Otago Medical School's 150th anniversary celebrations over King's Birthday Weekend. The celebration, which runs from today until Sunday, will mark 150 years of medical teaching, clinical training, research and innovation across the three University of Otago campuses in Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington. It will include academic sessions, tours of current facilities, and opportunities for former students to reunite with old friends Otago Military History Group co-chairman Peter Trevathan said group members would create a re-enactment depicting World War 1 and World War 2 field hospitals at the Hunter Centre in Great King St. Members would be wearing authentic uniforms and historic vehicles would be displayed, he said. The public will be welcome to view the displays from 11am on Saturday and Sunday.
Otago Daily Times
23-04-2025
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Service to community
PHOTO: SUPPLIED Otago Military History Group (OMHG) members and friends took part in the New Zealand Remembrance Army's "Cleaning to Remember" day recently, giving service graves a spruce up at Andersons Bay Cemetery. Volunteers Shona Ledgerwood (left) and Isobel Nicholls were among those who worked to clean headstones in the cemetery's military section before tomorrow's Anzac Day commemorations. The Anderson's Bay Cemetery will host the Posy Laying service from 9.30am which will culminate in Girl Guides, Brownies, Pippins and Scouts laying rosemary posies on the soldiers' graves. OMHG member Eleanor McDuff said those who took part in the cleanup "enjoyed the work, and felt they had made a contribution to maintaining the memory of those interred there". Many OMHG members will also take part in a variety of Anzac Day services across the city, including a service at Upper Junction RSA Reserve at 12.30pm tomorrow. Services have been held at the site for several years, since the group completed restoration of the reserve and attendance has gradually increased from OMHG members and some locals to include residents of the area, including Opoho and North East Valley.
