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 the Great War.[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]

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