Editing Remembrance Day (section)

===New Zealand===
[[File:Shane Reti lays wreath 2021.jpg|thumb|[[Shane Reti]] lays a wreath at the [[Tomb of the Unknown Warrior (New Zealand)|New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Soldier]] on behalf of the [[Official Opposition (New Zealand)|Official Opposition]] to commemorate Armistice Day, 2021]]
Armistice Day was observed in New Zealand between the World Wars, although it was always secondary to Anzac Day. As in other countries, New Zealand's Armistice Day was converted to Remembrance Day after World War II. However, by the mid-1950s, the day was virtually ignored, even by churches and veterans' organisations.<ref>Helen Robinson, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150127094606/http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/2010/NZJH_44_1_05.pdf 'Lest we Forget? The Fading of New Zealand War Commemorations, 1946–1966'], ''New Zealand Journal of History'', 44, 1 (2010) p. 76-91 .</ref>

As a result, New Zealand's national day of remembrance is Anzac Day, 25 April.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage |title=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage: Anzac Day |publisher=Mch.govt.nz |access-date=11 November 2011 |archive-date=5 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305030644/https://mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage |url-status=dead }}</ref> Poppy Day" usually occurs on the Friday before Anzac Day.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rsa.org.nz/remem/poppy_intro.html |title=NZ Returned Services Association: Poppy Day |publisher=Rsa.org.nz |access-date=11 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019191349/http://www.rsa.org.nz/remem/poppy_intro.html |archive-date=19 October 2011  }}</ref> The reason for New Zealand having their remembrance on Anzac Day happened in 1921. The paper Poppies for Armistice that year arrived by ship too late for 11 November 1921, so an RSA branch distributed them at the next commemoration date (25 April 1922, which happened to be Anzac Day) and that date stuck as the new Poppy Day in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/new-zealands-first-poppy-day-held |title=New Zealand's first poppy day |publisher=Government of New Zealand |access-date=10 November 2020}}</ref>