Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act 2000


Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act 2000 is statute law in New Zealand. The act sought to remove the blight on their character of five soldiers who were unjustly executed during World War I. One of the pardoned soldiers named in the act was from New Zealand's southern port town of Bluff and he is now honoured in the town's maritime museum.

The pardoned soldiers

They were all awarded medals posthumously, after the act was passed.