Le Quesnoy

Yesterday (Nov 11) was Remembrance Day 2025. To mark it, this week's "Sonic" Moment of Calm is a Waiata delivered by RNZ Concert listener Kirsty Garner at the war grave of her great Uncle Walter… Audio

Military historian Herb Farrant has done a lot of detective work both here and in Europe to uncover the stories of the men and women who died as a result of The Great War, many of whom were not… Audio

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney reports from Le Quesnoy on the emotional centenary commemorations held in the northern French town saved by Kiwi soldiers near the end of World War One, with the… Audio

Historian Herb Farrant talks about why a museum in the French town of Le Quesnoy has been such a mission. November 4 marks one of the final commemorative events of World War I - other than Armistice… Audio

November 4 is a special date for a little town in France called Le Quesnoy and for the people who liberated it - the New Zealanders. Military historian Christopher Pugsley has written a book called Le… Audio, Gallery

The small French town of Le Quesnoy that's never forgotten the New Zealand troops who liberated it in the First World War are marking the centenary of the battle on Sunday. Eighty New Zealand soldiers… Audio

For 100 years my Uncle Syd’s remains have been lying in row B, grave 23, of a little cemetery in the northeastern French town of Le Quesnoy, writes Penny Mackay.