Remembrance Day

Luxon also announced a National Remembrance Day to be held on 12 November next year to mark the anniversary of Tuesday’s apology.

Speaking of Remembrance Day and the futility of war, she said she had lost many of her school friends during the conflict.

In Belfast, a protest banner was erected outside the office of Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill following her decision to take part in the city's Remembrance Day service on Sunday.

Mr Parker said the next step in remembering the young soldier would be adding his name to a local war memorial, hopefully before Remembrance Day this year.

Just one week after Biden took the Oval Office, he mentioned his father in a document from the White House, in an official statement for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.