Sir Peter Jackson has re-created his most epic battle scene yet, with a giant Gallipoli diorama.

85: Major was one of the "A" Battery commanders when a 101-gun royal salute in Auckland's Albert Park backfired in June 1911, injuring four.

The Anzacs fought for seven months on the beaches and in the trenches of Gallipoli's Sari Bair range.

James Waddell is one of New Zealand's most decorated military heroes - but few have heard much about him.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will make his second official visit to New Zealand next week to take part in the Anzac centenary commemorations.

A week of official events marking the centenary of the Gallipoli landings begins on Saturday with the opening of national war memorial park, the Government announced today.

84: Ten years after World War I, Frances Rolfes finally got to see the cross which marked her Hermann Rolfes's grave. Mrs Rolfes had never forgotten her only son.

Herbert A. Knight, a young man who had shown great promise in his hometown of Wanganui, was shot down on May 8, 1915.

On the centenary of the conflict, should NZ apologise for its part in an invasion that claimed 86,000 Ottoman Empire lives - almost twice the number of Allied soldiers killed?

83:The Holz brothers — Ernest, William and their younger brother Allan — signed up for war on the same day.

Prince Harry paid his respects to the lost brothers of the Australian military he's joined for a month-long secondment Downunder.

Our countdown begins to the 100-year anniversary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

The Herald is publishing a series of video diaries to mark the Gallipoli centenary. This week, we’re telling the stories of five New Zealand residents with strong ties.

Our countdown begins to the 100-year anniversary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

82: The 38-year-old Scot George Waugh, who could be "sharp and sarcastic" according to his personal file, was not the only serving vet to die in unusual circumstances.

81: Nellie Knight outlived six of her ten children. Of the seven sons she bore, four of them were casualties of war.

80: Letters addressed to wives, mothers, fathers, sisters and relatives, they provided a censored glimpse of the conditions facing the troops.

The mystery of how a giant flag that flew at Gallipoli a century ago came to hang in a New Zealand church has been solved by a naval historian.

78: As HMS Queen sailed towards Gallipoli Peninsula, anxious troops sat holding their helmets under a giant white ensign fluttering in the morning breeze.

77: Father James Joseph McMenamin served selflessly and paid the ultimate sacrifice as a Catholic chaplain to the Armed Forces in the Great War.

76: Charlie Savory was one tough rooster. He had a reputation for never taking a backward step in not one, but two, rugby codes.

75: It was late in the day before New Zealand appointed war artists to document the conflict.

74: Conditions on board the troopship SS Arawa were stifling.

The bravery of 14 NZ soldiers awarded the Victoria Cross during WWI have been commemorated by the UK government.

73: A legacy of New Zealand's wartime presence in England is still visible on the Salisbury Plains.

72: An illustrious New Zealand sportsman, winner of four Wimbledon singles titles, a dashing figure who was dating an American silent screen star, killed by a hit from a "Jack Johnson".

71: Frank Bullock-Webster took the long road to the Western Front.

The Gallipoli centennial starts on the Auckland waterfront on Friday when the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth sets up a "poppy wall" which will sail with the ship to Turkey.

70: The young soldiers were hungry, a little tired and perhaps excited to be one step closer to the action.