Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act 2000

Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act 2000 is statute law in New Zealand.

[1][2][3] The act sought to remove the blight on their character of five soldiers who were unjustly executed during World War I.

[4] 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.

[5] The Act was opposed by the ACT party, which argued it was inappropriate and an insult to the memory of everyone who fought in the war.

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