Our elite New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) is considering removing the name and insignia of the colonial Forest Rangers unit from its most sacred
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Despite the Covid-19 lockdown, the fallen were remembered in Nelson on Anzac Day 2020 including at Anzac Park and outside the home of RSA patron John Beeching, 96, who flew with the Royal Air Force in World War II.
The Australasian Orphanage in Lebanon was an unexpected outpost of Antipodean generosity in the years after World War I. Two Cantabrians, John and Lydia Knudsen, opened the orphanage in 1922 in the pretty seaside town of Antelias, long since absorbed into greater Beirut. John had served in World War I and stayed on to do relief work in the Middle East. He married Lydia in Cairo in 1920.