National Army Museum (New Zealand)

The museum offers a number of facilities and experiences which include a gift shop, the Home Fires Café, the Kippenberger Research Library, and the Tears on Greenstone Memorial.

The water cascading down the southern hemisphere's largest greenstone structure represents the tears of endless mourning, and is accompanied by an audio system reciting the names of the fallen.

[1] The library, which is open to the public and free of charge, is named after Major General Sir Howard Karl Kippenberger, a military leader and historian who served in both World Wars.

Also stolen were two George Crosses: David Russell; Ken Hudson; and an Albert Medal: Randolph Ridling.

[12] It appears that the museum was previously holding 13 VCs, of which 2, those of Charles Upham and Percy Valentine Storkey, were on loan.

There were four VCs not taken: Thomas Cooke, 1916; Bernard Diamond, 1857; William James Hardham, 1901; and Percy Valentine Storkey, 1918.