26 Feb 2018

Waiouru holds first Purple Poppy Day, animal memorial unveiled

From Morning Report, 8:54 am on 26 February 2018

The role animals have played in war was commemorated for the first time in this country at the National Army Museum in Waiouru on Saturday. And the animals have been given their own poppy - but it's a purple poppy that symbolises all animals who have died during conflict. To mark the day a New Zealand War Animal Memorial was unveiled at the museum. RNZ Veteran's Affairs reporter Andrew McRae was at Purple Poppy Day.