Wreath-laying ceremonies have been held at the National War Memorial in Wellington and throughout the country to mark Armistice Day.
A total of 18,500 New Zealanders died in World War I and nearly 50,000 more were wounded.
More than 2700 died at Gallipolli and 12,500 died on the Western Front.
Hostilities ceased at 11am on 11 November 1918.
Two minutes of silence were observed at the National War Memorial and elsewhere at 11am.
The country's only Victoria Cross recipient at Gallipoli, Cyril Bassett, was honoured during this year's commemorations.
At Gallipoli in 1915, the then 23-year-old laid and subsequently repaired a telephone wire to the front line, in full daylight and under continuous and heavy fire.
The late Corporal Bassett's daughter Beverley Young says she spent many years unaware of her father's achievement.
A new secondary schools speech competition in his name was launched at Defence House in Wellington.
For the first time, Britain's ceremonies are taking place without any veterans of the war, with the last three dying earlier this year.
The BBC notes the war became known, inappropriately, as the war to end all wars.
