Anzac Day 2017 by Northern Advocate

Northern Advocate

Friday, April 21, 2017

2017 Contents List

Page 3 - Nine of the most bold and brave Page 4 - When bombs rained down

WAIPU RSA ANZAC DAY 2017 CEREMONY AND PARADE RSA ANZAC DAY 2017 TIMETABLE Join the Waipu RSA on ANZAC Day. 9:30am - Waipu RSA opens. 10:30am - Form parade adjacent to the Pizza Barn on Cove Road. 10:40am - Those marching should be fallen in and the band will form in front of the marchers facing west. 10:45am - The Parade Commander will call the marchers to attention and the parade will step off and march to the Cenotaph. 11:00am - ANZAC Day Service at Memorial and Carpark. On Completion - Parade marches back to the Waipu RSA, Nova Scotia Drive. Light Lunch served at Waipu RSA. In the event of bad weather a decision will be made as to whether to continue with the full ceremony or hold an abbreviated ceremony in the Waipu RSA Clubrooms.

Page 5 - The sheer horror of trench warfare Page 6 - Where they gathered for the Great War Page 7 - Our ANZAC key dates Page 8 - The Montgomery Brothers of Mititai Page 9 - Hikurangi’s Early Settlers Page 10 - Hukerenui & Districts lost 33 men in the Great War Page 11 - Celebrating the men who fought in the wars for New Zealand Page 12 - Kaitaia’s fallen soldiers Page 13 - Kawakawa Memorial Library pays homage Page 14 - Snapshots from a Northland solider Page 15 - Russell RSA prepares for ANZAC Day Page 16 - Community Cenotaph comes to Waipu Museum Page 17 - Whangarei Art Museum, exhibits a third reﬂection by Bob Jahnke and Whenua Hou- New Maori Ceramics Page 18-19 - Poppies in Remembrance We would like to thank all of the contributors and advertisers for making this special ANZAC feature possible from Jan Hewitt and the NZME team.

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Nine of the most bold and brave Lieutenant Colonel William Malone: Commander of the Wellington Battalion, he fought his superiors on behalf of his men as fiercely as he fought the Turks; killed when he led the capture of the Chunuk Bair summit — a rare, fleeting success of the Allies’ August, 1915 offensive. Corporal Cyril Bassett: The first New Zealander to win a Victoria Cross during World War I; awarded for laying and repairing a telephone wire to the front line under heavy fire at Chunuk Bair. Captain Alfred Shout: Wellingtonborn, he enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force while living in Australia and was awarded a VC for his bravery in capturing trenches at the Battle of Lone Pine, where he lost his right hand and left eye, later dying of his wounds. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Begg: Field Ambulance supervisor; was wounded when treating heavy casualties during the Anzac landings and made direct approaches to commanders to get help to evacuate hundreds of wounded on the beach after the

Some of the men who helped forge NZ’s Anzac legend at Gallipoli

Chunuk Bair assault of August 7, 1915. Lieutenant Francis Twisleton: Awarded a Military Cross for bravery during the campaign, he dug small pieces of shrapnel out of his wounded leg with a pocket knife after assaults on Bauchop’s Hill and Hill 60. After the latter battle he commanded a post partly constructed on the rotting corpses of Turkish soldiers. Chaplain Henare Te Wainohu: He preached to the Maori Contingent on the eve of battle at Sari Bair, reminding them of their duty to uphold the warrior tradition of the Maori. He risked his life for others on many occasions at Gallipoli, helping carry out the wounded, distributing water and

Whangarei RSA

he Whangarei RSA history records that the earliest gathering of war veterans were those who served in the war in the Transvaal known as the Boer war that commenced in October 1899 These veterans were followed by significant numbers of WWI veterans who had a social environment on the eastern side of Bank St where Sargent’s Pharmacy used to be. There were social events prior to 1946 known as “Annual Smoke Concerts” but in acknowledging that, it was also known that war veterans met in various places to engender informal social environments. It should also be noted that WWI veterans raised significant funds for the construction of RSA clubrooms at that time. In 1947 following the purchase of land and buildings, saw the establishment of a bowling green. Alongside that there were significant veterans groups that included the Kings Empire Veterans Association, The Ex Navalmen’s Association, the Prisoners of War Association, Korea War Veterans Assn, Malaya and Vietnam Veterans Association, 28 Maori Battalion, 22 Battalion, 24 Battalion, RNZAF Association, The Whangarei RSA Women’s Section, Whangarei RSA Widows Section, Whangarei RSA Indoor Bowlers club, RSA Rifle Club, RSA Fishing Club, Pool Club, Darts Club, Line Dancers etc. The provision of Support Services to war veterans, their widows and dependants is a front line operation of the RSA. Other services include cataract operations, dentures, hearing aids and spectacles, and discretionary funds for those facing serious financial

comforting the dying. He was wounded in September 1915. Captain Bernard Freyberg: English-born, Wellington-raised, he won New Zealand junior and senior swimming titles — feats that helped him win a Distinguished Service Order with the Royal Navy for swimming ashore and setting flares at Bulair on April 24, 1915 to try to divert Turkish attention away from the main landing. He later added two bars to his DSO, won a VC at the Somme, commanded New Zealand troops in World War II and became Governor-General. Private Dick Henderson: When Australian medic Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick was killed by a Turkish sniper, Henderson took over, evacuating the wounded by

dilemmas including household repairs and maintenance or the replacement of domestic appliances. Bequests to the Whangarei the RSA enable us to provide plaques for unmarked veteran’s graves. We thank Morris and Morris for their sponsorship of fuel for the RSA vehicles. The researching of names of our war dead for inclusion on our new memorial was a major undertaking, and supported with the accumulation of additional funds from the WDC to assist with the construction of the memorial and “Field of Remembrance”. Their support contributes to our ANZAC Day Dawn Service and towards the collection of funds associated with our Poppy Day Appeal. Wayne Hutchinson is the new Chairman of the Whangarei RSA Trust, taking over from the long serving RSA member Archie Dixon. Wayne is a Vietnam Veteran serving with Victor Six company in 1970 as a section commander. He had a 20 year career in the regular Army from age 15. He worked through the ranks until he until he retired from the Regular Force, joined the territorials as a commissioned officer serving in various appointments for a further seven years. Five years of his military service was spent on overseas tours of duty. Wayne has spent the last 30 years in business as owner of a flower growing business, an Economic development officer, a CEO of a honey marketing company, and economic development officer with Enterprise Northland now know as Northland Inc.

donkey and it is believed it is a painting of him, based on a soldier’s photo, that formed part of an Anzac legend, though the painting was called Simpson and his Donkey. Major General Alexander Godfrey: British commander of the New Zealand and Australian Division at Gallipoli, his troop training was praised but he was widely criticised for not reconnoitring the steep and rugged terrain and later quashing New Zealand VC recommendations from the campaign. — AAP

SMALL SCALE: Figurine of Lieutenant Colonel William Malone in the battle as part of the Gallipoli: the New Zealand Story in Wellington.

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Sources: nzhistory.net.nz, teara.govt.nz (both Ministry for Culture and Heritage), anzacsite.gov.au (Australian Department of Veterans’ Affairs), London Gazette, NZ Press Association.

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Friday, April 21, 2017

ANZAC DAY 2017

When bombs rained down I

T’S AN ICONIC scene of Britain at war: Thousands of Londoners huddled in Underground stations as German bombs rained down. But this is not the 1940s Blitz — it’s World War I, more than 20 years earlier. For most people, the Great War evokes images of mud, gas masks and the trenches of the Western Front. The Imperial War Museum in London has over the past few years tried to provide a new perspective on “the war to end all wars”. Senior historian Terry Charman said many people are surprised to learn that London was bombed — first by zeppelins, then by planes — and that 300,000 people sought shelter in subway stations. “They say: ‘Air raids? Really? You forget that there was a home front,” Chapman says. The museum was founded in 1917, as the war still raged, to preserve the stories of those who were fighting and dying, and reopened after renovations three years ago. It retains that goal, as well as its “Imperial” moniker, a relic of a vanished British Empire.

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You forget that there was a home front [in World War I]. In other ways the museum has modernised. It now covers recent conflicts, including those in Iraq and Afghanistan, and includes an impressive collection of old and new military hardware. From the ceiling of the building’s new atrium hang a Spitfire fighter plane, a Harrier jump jet, a V1 rocket and more. But the museum’s curators are just as interested in human stories. The World War I galleries move from the battlefront to the home front, to show how the first “total war” shook society from top to bottom. The permanent exhibition includes more than 1300 objects — from weapons and uniforms to diaries and letters — and alternates between the big picture and small details. Both perspectives have emotional power. It’s hard not to be humbled by the sheer scale of the slaughter.

After war was declared in August 1914 — with Germany and AustriaHungary on one side and Britain, France and Russia on the other — seven million men marched off to war. By December, a million of them were dead. Multimedia displays capture the vast tragedy of the Battle of the Somme, in which 20,000 British soldiers were killed in one day. Visitors learn about tanks, planes and other technological innovations that changed the course of the war. They share space with crude weapons that suggest the almost medieval savagery of trench warfare, including catapults to fling grenades and an iron-headed club for crushing skulls. Many visitors will find the small, personal items especially

moving. Soldiers complain of boredom, rats, lice and cold in letters home from the trenches. The wallet of a soldier killed in battle holds faded photos of his wife and children. In a letter, nineyear-old Alfie Knight begs to be allowed to enlist because “I am very strong and often win a fight with lads twice as big as myself”. Most of the displays show the war from the perspective of Britain, its empire and its allies — including the US, which entered the conflict in 1917. It was a deliberate decision to convey the war as it was experienced. The exception comes in the final room. The last word is given to Harry Patch, the final known survivor of the trenches, who died in 2009, aged 111. “I’ve tried for 80 years to forget it,” he said. “But I can’t.” — AAP

IMAGES: A visitor to the Imperial War Museum in London checks out an image of trench warfare, more readily associated with World War 1.

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Sheer horror of trench warfare

ENDURANCE: Anzac forces endure the awful conditions of the trenches on the front line.

Living in the trenches was like being stuck in a nightmare, write Fran Blandy and Pierre Marie Giraud

OR THREE YEARS during World War I, millions of soldiers holed up in a warren of trenches, fighting and dying in nightmarish conditions along a barely moving frontline. For the French, British, Germans, Anzacs and others caught in this futile fight, the rain, biting cold and thick mud, the awful stench of death and scourge of rats would haunt their daily lives as much as the constant onslaught from the enemy. “When the world is red and reeking, and the shrapnel shells are shrieking, and your blood is slowly leaking, carry on,” urged one of the Great War’s soldier poets Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, nicknamed “Woodbine Billy”, who chronicled the horrors of the trenches. “When the broken battered trenches, are like the bloody butchers’ benches, and the air is thick with stenches, carry on.” In the summer of 1914 soldiers had set out for a swift war, but after several mobile and extremely bloody months, rival armies decimated by artillery fire found themselves locked in a stalemate along the battle’s Western Front. To better protect themselves, soldiers burrowed a line of trenches that stretched for 700km from the North Sea through France to Switzerland, where both sides would dig in for three years, suffering crippling losses but making little headway. The first trenches were hastily dug, often shallow holes, becoming deeper and more elaborate as the stalemate dragged on. They were dug in a zigzag so that if an enemy

soldier got in he could not open fire along the whole length of the trench. Fields of barbed wire surrounded the ditches, aimed at slowing any advance through “no man’s land” — the area between enemy lines that was sometimes only a few dozen metres. The warren of trenches usually included a frontline, a reserve line and a support line, which soldiers would rotate through, usually spending only days at a time at the front. Either way, daily life in the unhygienic trenches was miserable. Heavy rain flooded the trenches, needing to be scooped out at downtimes. Walls collapsed in a muddy mess that would freeze in the thick of winter and made moving around with heavy arms and equipment a terrible ordeal. Toilets were improvised in the trench — going outside left you open to attack — and with no means to wash, and garbage and dead bodies piling up in and

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Western Front. “I knew a simple soldier boy, who grinned at life in empty joy. “In winter trenches, cowed and glum, with crumps and lice and lack of rum, he put a bullet through his brain. “No one spoke of him again,” wrote Sassoon in the grimly entitled poem Suicide in the trenches. Food often arrived cold, while bread was frozen or mouldy. For French soldiers, it was their daily litre of red wine and cigarettes that helped ease them through the day. Mornings for both sides began with a pre-dawn “stand to arms” where men would climb up on the fire-step, rifle and bayonet at the ready in case of a dawn raid. After an inspection, breakfast would be eaten during an unofficial truce between the two sides, one of several such tacit “live and let live” agreements on the frontline. Although the threat of danger was never far, attacks were most likely to take place at night so days were dedicated to repairing the trenches and other vital jobs. In quiet times, soldiers passed the time tinkering with

When the world is red and reeking, and the shrapnel shells are shrieking, and your blood is slowly leaking, carry on around the ditch, the stench could be overpowering. “The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still, and I remember things I’d best forget,” wrote English poet Siegfried Sassoon, who fought on the Western Front. Soldiers also had to deal with the scourge of multiplying rats who would feed off these bodies as well as lice and flies. If this wasn’t enough to drive entrenched soldiers to the brink of sanity, the constant fear of death certainly was. Barrages of artillery fire and explosions in the trenches and constant sniper fire gave rise to the term shell-shock, the trauma and mental breakdown suffered by many soldiers on the

whatever they could lay their hands on — wood, scrap fabric or bullet casings — to cobble together lamps, pipes, jewels or even musical instruments. Letter writing and reading was a lifeline, with 10 billion letters and packages exchanged during the conflict, although many tried to hide the horror of their daily lives from loved ones. Nighttime brought raids, transfers of supplies and movement of troops between the trenches. “The air is loud with death, The dark air spurts with fire, The explosions ceaseless are,” wrote another war poet, Isaac Rosenberg, killed in 1918, in the chilling Dead Man’s Dump.

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Friday, April 21, 2017

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Where they gathered for the Great War By Tim Clarke

HEY arrived unannounced. Thousands of troops from across Australia and New Zealand, primed for war. Gathered together aboard dozens of warships, laden with horses, typewriters, ambulances, provisions and tonnes of weapons, they sailed into the King George Sound, on Western Australia’s south coast. And for the next week, the town of Albany — population 4000 — became the last Australian home many of these young, fearless men would ever know. It was late October, 1914, and the Australian Imperial Force and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force — the Anzacs — had been deployed to Europe. Just days earlier, it had been resolved they would cross the Indian Ocean on board nearly 40 ships, but they needed somewhere to gather. Albany is the oldest permanently settled town in Western Australia, pre-dating Perth and Fremantle by two years, when in 1826 it was colonised as a military outpost as part of Australia’s resistance to French ambitions. The 110sq km sound is sheltered on all sides from winds and heavy seas — and so was big enough, deep enough and calm enough to house the biggest fleet the Commonwealth had ever assembled. And so they came. “Here were gathered innumerable vessels of every line trading in the southern oceans. Not painted uniformly grey like our ships, but taken in all their glory of greens, blues and yellows, they rode on the calm water of King George’s Sound, packed with the adventurous spirits of the First Australian

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They were bored, sick of training and waiting for decisions. They were told when they signed up their Empire needed them and they were very keen to go and do their bit. Division,” wrote Major Fred Waite, author of The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. The equally sheltered, secluded townsfolk of Albany had never seen anything like it. “It was one of those things that snuck up on the people of Albany, and they did not know it was happening because of military censorship,” recounts Malcolm Traill, public programmes officer at the WA Museum in Albany. “They woke up one morning in late October to see that ships had begun to arrive in our waters . . . and the war had started.” The numbers of troops were huge. Thirty six ships gathered — 26 from Australia, 10 from New Zealand — to be joined later by two sailing from Fremantle. An escort convoy of six warships and one Japanese cruiser would protect the precious cargo — 20,000 soldiers, 2000 sailors and 7000 horses. Behind the fleet command vessel Orvieto would sail in the Hymettus, the Geelong, the Pera, the Omrah, the Clan Maccorquodale, the Medic, the Argyllshire, the Shropshire, and dozens of others. And for days, as the Albany townsfolk watched from the land, the ships and the men sat and waited in the harbour, while coal and fresh water were replenished. “They were bored, sick of training and waiting for decisions. They were told when they signed up their Empire needed them and they were very keen to go and do their bit,” Traill says.

“But they had little idea of what they were in for in the weeks, months and years ahead.” To help expend the nervous energy and relieve the boredom, troops were ferried ashore daily to exercise, to drill and march. Their impending sacrifice was embraced.

LONG WAY FROM HOME: Tourists walk among the headstones at Ari Burnu Cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

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IN MEMORIAM: The Anzac memorial on Mt Clarence in Albany.

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“One of the breweries set up a stall to help refuel the marching men, and a couple of men from the brewery took a keg down and encouraged the men to get a top up to send them on their way,” Traill says. “And the townsfolk presented the troops with sprigs of wattle, which some placed in the Slouch Hats and that was a memory of Albany, and Australia, they would take away with them.” Then just as quietly as they arrived, in the early hours of November 1, the troops left, headed for Egypt, the Dardanelles and Gallipoli. Steaming out under the gaze of Mt Clarence, one by one the ships passed Breaksea Island and its lighthouse, occupied by its keeper Mr Howe and his teenage daughter Fay. And one by one, she signalled to the departing fleet in morse code, becoming for many young soldiers, the last human contact they would ever have with Australia. Weeks later, after a second convoy had also departed and Albany was returning to normality, postcards began arriving from the Middle East addressed to “The little girl on Breaksea Island”, from the men who had hung on to that final memory of home. In 2014, 100 years after the departure of the fleet, troops marched on Albany’s streets, as they did in 1914, to honour the memory of those men. “Albany has a special place in Australia’s history. And, hopefully, we learned our lesson, sending thousands of troops to war in one convoy knowing they would not return,” Traill says.

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ANZAC DAY 2017 1914 Nov 1: First convoy of Australian and New Zealand troops depart for Europe from Albany, Western Australia. Nov 5: The United Kingdom declares war on Turkey.

man’s land. Aug 6: The major battle of the Gallipoli campaign, the August Offensive, begins. The six-day Lone Pine diversion starts. Aug 7: Four waves of men in Australia’s 3rd Light Horse Brigade wiped out at the Battle of the Nek. Aug 8: New Zealand and English forces gain foothold at vital outpost Chunuk Bair. Aug 10: Turkish troops force Allied servicemen off Chunuk Bair. Aug 21-29: The Battle for Hill 60 ends with major casualties, August Offensive fails. Nov 22: English Secretary of State for War Horatio Kitchener recommends evacuation of Anzac Cove and Suvla. Nov 27: Blizzard hits Gallipoli peninsula, reinforcing the need to evacuate. Dec 9-18: More than 16,000 troops evacuated from Anzac Cove mostly at night. Dec 18-20: Remaining 20,000 Australia and New Zealand soldiers withdrawn. Dec 20: Evacuation of Anzac Cove and Suvla completed before dawn.

FAREWELL: Just before the evacuation of Gallipoli, many soldiers visited the graves of friends to bid a last goodbye.

Jan 13: British War Council approves naval operation to force the Dardanelles. Mar 18: French and British naval operation fails. Mar 22: Britain decide to launch land campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula. Apr 25: Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) land at Anzac Cove and more than 1700 casualties are evacuated in the first 24 hours. Apr 26: Australian submarine HMAS AE2 is first Allied vessel to sneak through the Dardanelles. Apr 27-29: Anzac troops survive Turkish attempts to drive them into the sea. May 5: Turkish shell Anzac Cove in

what’s known as “Beachy Bill”, resulting in more than 1000 casualties. May 8: Anzac troops join British attack at Helles, losing 1000 men out of 2000. Jan 15: Major General WT Bridge, commander of the Australian 1st

KEY DATES

Aug 1: Germany declares war on Russia. Aug 3: Germany declares war on France and invades Belgium. Aug 4: Britain declares war on Germany. Aug 23: The British Expeditionary Force begins its retreat from Mons. Germany invades France. Aug 26: Russian army defeated at Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes. Sept 6: Battle of the Marne begins. Oct 18: First Battle of Ypres. Oct 29: Turkey enters the war on Germany’s side. Trench warfare dominates the Western Front.

1915 Jan 19: The first Zeppelin raid on Britain takes place. Feb 19: Britain bombards Turkish forts in the Dardanelles. Apr 25: Allied troops land in Gallipoli. May 7: The Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat. May 23: Italy declares war on

Germany and Austria. Aug 5: The Germans capture Warsaw from the Russians. Sept 25: Start of the Battle of Loos. Dec 19: The Allies begin the evacuation of Gallipoli.

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Rest of WWI

1914

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Jan 27: Conscription is introduced in Britain. Feb 21: Battle of Verdun starts. Apr 29: British forces surrender to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia. May 31: Battle of Jutland. June 4: Start of the Brusilov Offensive. July 1: Start of the Battle of the Somme. Aug 10: End of the Brusilov Offensive. Sept 15: First use en masse of tanks at the Somme. Dec 7: Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister.

1917 Feb 1: Germany’s unrestricted

Division is mortally wounded. He dies on May 18, 1915. Jan 19: Australian legend John Simpson Kirkpatrick, famed for rescuing fallen troops with his donkey, is killed. Jan 24: Armistice declared for nine hours to bury dead soldiers in no-

submarine warfare campaign begins. Apr 6: US declares war on Germany. Apr 16: France launches an unsuccessful offensive on the Western Front. July 31: Start of the Third Battle at Ypres. Oct 24: Battle of Caporetto — the Italian Army is heavily defeated. Nov 6: Britain launches a major offensive on the Western Front. Nov 20: British tanks win at Cambrai. Dec 5: Armistice between Germany and Russia signed. Dec 9: Britain captures Jerusalem from Turks.

1918 Mar 3: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed between Russia and Germany. Mar 21: Germany breaks through on the Somme. Mar 29: Marshall Foch is appointed Allied Commander on the Western Front. Apr 9: Germany starts an offensive in Flanders. Jul 15: Second Battle of the Marne

— Source: Dept of Veterans’ Affairs, Monash University professor Bruce Scates

SOLDIERS: Larger-than-life figures of Gallipoli soldiers, created by Weta Workshop, on display at Te Papa’s Gallipoli exhibition.

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begins. This is the start of the collapse of the German army. Aug 8: The advance of the Allies is successful. Sept 19: Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo. Oct 4: Germany asked the Allies for an armistice. Oct 29: Germany’s navy mutinies. Oct 30: Turkey makes peace. Nov 3: Austria makes peace. Nov 9: Kaiser William II abdicates. Nov 11: Germany signs an armistice with the Allies — the official date of the end of World War I.

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ANZAC DAY 2017 A Gallant Loss -The Montgomery Brothers of Mititai

reat losses were sustained in the Kaipara District area during WW1 with many, many names on the Dargaville Museum’s WW1 Roll of Honour. This story, one of many, is that of a Farming /Storekeeper family: the Montgomery’s.

THE TWO BROTHER LOST IN WW1: Henry and Edward Montgomery.

Thomas and Alice Montgomery of Mititai, Dargaville, were to have 4 of their 7 beloved sons called to arms during WW1. It was a massive and gallant sacrifice for any mother and father of their time to send sons to war and was especially so for Thomas and Alice as two of the four were killed in action in Belgium and only one of the two lost sons was buried in a marked grave. Two of the sons, John and William Montgomery, returned home safely after WW1 and John continued farming with another brother, Richard. Henry (1890-1917) and Edward (1892-1917), the Montgomery’s fifth and sixth sons respectively, were not so lucky. Henry, a storekeeper working for Montgomery Bros., was the first to leave. He enlisted on the 12th October 1915 at Trentham, leaving for Egypt in October 1916 with the 10th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, ‘A’ Company. They disembarked at Suez where they joined the 1st Infantry Battalion aboard the ‘Nile’ on its way to ‘Sling Camp’ England, before leaving for France and arriving at Etaples on the 1st March 1917. The company went to field on the 23rd June 1917 and just over a month later Henry was killed in action at Ypres, Belgium. He was laid to rest in a marked grave at Mud Corner, Warneton, Belgium. Edward, a farmer, enlisted and set off to war a year and a half after Henry, along with his brother John. They left New Zealand on the 14th April 1917 on the ‘Pakeha’, but due to a fire on board, the ship returned to Wellington and the troops reembarked 12 days later set for Devonport, England, arriving on the 28th July 2017. In September the troops marched to Etaples, France, where both Edward and John were posted to ‘B’ Company, 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade. Four months later Edward too was killed in action,

along with 1795 other New Zealand men during the Passchendaele offensive in Belgium, and was buried in an unmarked grave. His name is commemorated on the Buttes Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium. Thomas and Alice Montgomery, mourning their two fallen sons, erected the Memorial Gates at the Arapohue Cemetery after the war. They were officially opened on the 24th April 1922 and, it is believed, was the first WW1 Cenotaph to be built in Northland. A marble memorial, donated by the men’s Grandmother Vincent, was unveiled on the 15th December 1923. To find out more about the many men of Dargaville and surrounding Districts who went to war for New Zealand in WW1, visit the Dargaville Museum, our big museum on the hill at Pou Tu Te Rangi/Harding Park, Mt Wesley. Winter hours - 9am till 4pm daily.

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Hikurangi’s Early Settlers

he following paragraphs are excerpts taken from the book ‘Hikurangi, The Story of a Coalmining Town’ by Madge Malcolm.

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The land purchase which marks the beginning of Hikurangi as a town was made in 1862. On the 20th of January of that year John Rogan, the District Commissioner of Lands, purchased 12,000 acres from the local Maori Tribal leaders. The land purchase deed which recorded the first transaction bears the names of Maori families still living in the Whangarei area. The main reasons for purchase lay in the abundance of mature timber and flax to be had in the area and the fact that the situation of the land at the centre of transport routes north and south and to both coasts made it possible that any town which grew up would be well served by communications. The area known as Hikurangi stretched from the Mangahuhuru Stream in the south to Waiotu in the north. It had the plentiful supply of mature trees including totara, rimu, rewarewa, kahikatea, taraire, tawa, black and silver beech, matai, karaka, pukatea, hinau, titoki, miro and kauri. The Hikurangi swamp was well stocked with raupo and the best quality flax particularly suited for making cordage. After the bush was burned, limestone rocks were revealed as “gleaming white castles”. Fortunately, those at Waro have been kept as a reserve. Early native history says that the Maori chief Heke is supposed to have retreated on Hikurangi when driven out of Ruapekapeka Pa by the British troops during the 1846 war. He then took up a position, now known as Heke’s Pa, situated on a domeshaped hill near Hikurangi Mountain. An ancient Maori cemetery has been discovered in the crevices of the lime rocks.

Settlers The ﬁrst settler in the district was Donald MacLeod. Born in Cape Breton in 1838, he came to New Zealand in 1860 and took up land at the south end of Hikurangi in 1893. Three years later Malcolm and William Buchanan bought section L31 from the government. Another early and prominent settler family at this time were the Carters who were born in Devonshire and came to New Zealand in 1863. In October 1891, a notice in the New Zealand Herald stated the immigrant and land order selection and the date of selection for the

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referred to rural lands being opened for sale or selection, price ten shillings per acre.

Timber Mills From the 1860’s Europeans settled in the Hikurangi area and made their homes in the heavy bush. Here they felled the kauri and used the pit saw and broad axe to turn the logs into timber. After the road had been put through from Whangarei in 1875, Mathewson, a local land owner, completed a contract to supply a large number of spas ranging in length from 60 to 85 feet, the greatest diameter being 22 inches. One man was killed and another was seriously injured while getting these spars out. Soon after that, Mathewson and Dr Richard Sissons started a sawmill and for the next ten years their timber was carted to Whangarei. Their mill was situated where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints now stands and, except for the very early Ngunguru mill (1838), was the first to start anywhere in the district. It was the timber that now attracted men to Hikurangi. Mathewson and Sissons mill was eventually taken over by George Buchanan and with workman’s huts, the mill extended as far as the creek where the Returned Servicemen’s Association (RSA) hall now stands. Logs were floated down from surrounding hills to the dam near the mill and from there were hauled up the skids to the mill. Timber also came into the mill on horse drawn wagons, called “pole-wagons”. After the timber was unloaded, the back wheels were pushed up to the front of the pole. Coal-mines Coal was first discovered in Hikurangi by some Maori when they were digging for gum in 1863. The seam was just below the surface and was found when they were widening the track between Hikurangi and Whangarei. The first coal mine ws opened in May 1889 in Section 41. It was called “Keep it Dark” and was on the rocks side of the road at Waro. The timber-mills were in the centre and southern end of Hikurangi while the coal-mines were in a desolate area under scrub-covered hills and swampy valleys to the north and north east; the Waro endo of the township.

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we had lived for two years… “I had not intended to write a great deal on the mine, but I was office girl there for four years until the mine closed and I realize that I still remember well the working- life of that great industry and something should be written down as seen from the eyes of a fifteen-year old girl. I was the only girl ever employed by the Waro Coal Mine; the office boy having joined the navy and gone to war… “This was an era of soldiers returning from World War Two and sadly for many families, some did not return. As in all districts, there were regular ‘farewell dances’ when the local boys left for overseas and ‘welcome home dances’ when they came back. To a young teenager, I remember they seemed pretty glamorous, but that they were lucky to return at all did not make an impact that it should have. To the families of those who did come back, what a great relief it must have been from the constant worry. Do we really appreciate the sacrifice that was made for us then? When I read the papers today, I think not.” WILSONVILLE: Photo Northern Publishing

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ost 33 young men killed in the 1914-18 Great War 11 of them lost from the tiny settlement of Tapuhi ( East Ruapekapeka ) Tom Hedley The first settler in the valley ran the Post Office and his house. Daughter Sue was the sworn Postmaster she and her siblings delivered the telegrams. At the outbreak of the war Tom trained 28 men, using bush training at his own rifle range The men fired from the school grounds to targets on a clay bank several hundred yards up the gully. He gave them training in horsemanship and fighting from horseback as they would be serving with the NZ Mounted Rifles. It was Tom who relieved his children from delivering the dreaded military telegrams to local families informing them they had lost a beloved son.

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One by one he was to make more than 11 of these difficult deliveries in that little valley. The burden weighed heavily on his shoulders. Most of them were killed fighting the Germans in France . Their names are carved in stone on the Memorial erected in Toms paddock where Monument road now climbs to Ruapekapeka. The Citation reads Erected by the residents of Tapuhi in honour of our brave boys who gave their lives in France During the great war 1914-18 Duty Nobly Done As a community Tapuhi really struggled after WW1 and never really recovered from the sacrifice Of so many of its fine young men Some 3 miles down the valley at Waiotu Harry (Tupu) Johnson who had already fought in the Boer war was readying himself to enlist.

His 4 sons had already enlisted and were ﬁghting in Europe. Harry 56yrs old falsiﬁed his age and was accepted as a Vet (self taught). He fought in the Middle East and returned home an invalid. Of his 4 sons 3 returned. Herbert (Bertie) received the DCM but Henry George was killed in action in France. Tupu had a hard time dealing with his loss and said “I would have gladly given my life for his,In my minds eye I keep reliving those wartime horrors, seeing my son amongst the dead and dying. In most cases this was a lot harder to accept than my own injuries. It took many years to recover” The Jack Morgan Museum would like to thank the advertisers below for supporting their story.

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Celebrating the men who fought in the wars for New Zealand The surnames listed below are named on the memorial plaques outside the Kaikohe Memorial Hall.

WWI. Anderson, Baker, Bennet, Bindon, Boyd, Bridge, Brown, Choat, Cullen, Dawson, Dickeson, Edwards, Faithful, Farnell, Far, Flood, Grooves, Halliday, Hansen, Hirst, Joyce, Kihi, King, Leslie, Ludbrook, McMullen McNamara, McNicol, Makoare, Marr, Moffat, Neilson, Padlie, Perry, Pollock, Poutawera, Rameka, Russell, Sly, Snowdon, Stevenson, Tiatoa, Walker, Warena, Watt, Whetu, Wilson, Woods, Wooster, Wynter. WWII.- Ahlfeld, Aiken, Alexander, Anderson, Ashby, Baynton, Bradley, Brodie, Brown, Bryers, Cains, Carr, Chapman, Clarke, Curry, Dawson, De Costa, Donaldson, Eady, East, Edmonds, Gilbert, Haimona, Hammond, Hapeta, Harrison, Horimona. Hutchinson, Kaiawi, Kaire, Kareko, Katene, Kelly, Komene, Law, Leaf, Lockett, Longworth, Lovelock, McKenzie, Mackereth, Maihi, Marshall, Munn, Neilson, Neumann, Nicholson, Penny, Philips, Pokaimau, Pollock, Pou, Ramsey, Robinson, Roos, Russell, Shortland, Skinner, Skudder, Stanton, Tau, Te Namu, Warren, Webster, West, Wihongi, Wipere.

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Robert enlisted when he was 29 while residing in Christchurch. He joined the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and was in the 3rd, 6th and 10th contingents fighting in the South African War of 1899-1902. He received the Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Queen’s South Africa Medal, King’s South Africa Medal and was mentioned in Despatches. Robert died in Kaikohe on the 9th May 1959 aged, 89 years and is buried in the Kaikohe Public Cemetery. His uniform can be seen at the Pioneer Village, Heritage Park Kaikohe. Private Clarence C Atkinson. Born in 1895 in New Zealand Clarence was a farm hand when he enlisted. On embarkation he was a Rifleman in the 3rd Reinforcements, 1st Battalion, E Company, New Zealand Rifle Brigade. . He sailed for Egypt on the 8th January 1916 from Wellington. He was killed in action on 4th October 1917 in Ypes, Belgium, at this time he was 22 years and a Private with the Auckland Infantry Regiment,

2nd Battalion. The Pioneer Village, Heritage Park Kaikohe holds a Memorial card which includes a photograph of Clarence. Sapper John Nicol. Born in Dingwell, Ross-shire , Scotland. The eldest son he was engaged in his deceased father’s business as a wine and spirit merchant. John Nicol immigrated to New Zealand about 1905. At the outbreak of war he offered himself for service but was rejected. Determined to assist the home country, he made several unsuccessful attempts to enlist, but it was not until his ﬁfth effort that he was accepted. He was placed in the New Zealand Engineers, tunnelling section of a pioneer battalion, leaving New Zealand aboard the Maunganui in 1916 headed for Devonport England and ultimately crossed to France. John died in New Zealand at the grand age of 85 years and is buried at Kaurihohore Cemetery. The Pioneer Village, Heritage Park Kaikohe holds Sapper John’s Certiﬁcate of Service in the NZ Expeditionary Forces in the ‘Great War’.

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command of the colonial forces in Egypt in 1914. But relations before the war weren’t that close and Australia was tainted by being a convict colony, says Massey University historian Glyn Harper. The New Zealanders and Australians were put together because of administrative convenience. They came across on the same ships and it was easy to throw them together. But the New Zealanders initially called themselves a variety of names: diggers, Maori land soldiers, NZers, Moalanders, before the Anzac moniker took hold. “There was a distinct feeling in New Zealand that New Zealanders would be better off not being too closely associated with Australians, that they were better Britons than anybody else, ”Harper says. “That continued into Egypt, where the Australians and New Zealanders were training. They didn’t like each [other] at the beginning because the New Zealanders saw the Australians as being loud, aggressive and always eager to drink, ﬁght and gamble. ”And the Australians thought the New Zealanders were too serious about themselves and their role. The antipathy is illustrated by the Battle of the Wassir, where an estimated 2500 New Zealand and Australian troops rioted in Cairo’s Haret Al Wassir red-light district. Many of those

involved were drunk. The houses of prostitutes were ransacked and their furniture thrown into the streets and set alight. There was an inquiry where “both sides blamed each other with glee,” Harper says,“ which indicated that Anzac solidarity was non-existent at that stage. It came later.” A large combined British and French force had landed at the southern end of Turkey’s Gallipoli peninsula, and on April25, 1915, the Australians and New Zealanders landed at the

the Boer War more than a decade earlier. At the turn of the century, New Zealand sent more than 6500 men to South Africa to ﬁght for the British in South Africa. Just 71 were killed in action or died of wounds, and another 159 died in accidents or from disease. Historian Chris Pugsley says that following Australian and New Zealand efforts in the Boer War, empire bosses were very conscious of their military “talent” but it wasn’t organised. It wasn’t overt, but when World War I broke out Britain was able to call upon a ready pool of men from the colonies. In 1914, New Zealand had a population of just over 1 million. A remarkable number volunteered: 120,000 enlisted at home and at least 3370 served for Australian or Imperial forces. Overall, the Allies lost 33,532 men at Gallipoli, of whom 2721 were New Zealanders and 8141 Australians. It was a brutal introduction to the new“ industrial” war machine for the newly coined Anzacs, which had little effect on the course of the war. However, Pugsley says it was much bigger for New Zealand. “It was a discovery of ourselves as a nation simply by comparing ourselves with the Australians, who we found while we had things in common with we were different.”—AAP

There was a distinct feeling that NewZealanders would be better off not being too closely associated with Australians, that they were better Britons than anybody else. spot that was to become Anzac Cove. They had a secondary task in the Gallipoli landings but when the ﬁghting began, the two nations were a revelation to each other, Harper says. “The New Zealanders were almost in awe of their ﬁghting quality as soldiers, and it’s reciprocated... there’s no getting around that it was a water shed in the relationship between Australia and New Zealand. ”The Anzac legend may have been born in Gallipoli in 1915 but the seeds were sown in

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rank Wiki was born in Te Kao, New Zealand in 1894. His father’s name is no recorded, and his mother was Harata Wiki of Herekino. Wiki was described on his enlistment interview form as an ‘aboriginal native of NZ’! He had completed the sixth standard at school and at enlistment was a sawmill hand employed by the Union Box Company of Rawene. He enlisted at age 22 and his medical details indicate that: Height: 5 foot 10.5 inches Weight: 13 stone Chest: 34.5 – 37 inches Complexion: dark Eyes: Black Hair: Black Religion: Church of England His medical examination found him fit and healthy, without any ‘defect’ that might be sufficient to cause him to be rejected from the military. It further states that he was bodily and mentally healthy, and that he had no scars or deformities. After initial training of three months he embarked for Devonport, England from Wellington on 19 August 1916 on HMNZT 61, the Apirama. He enlisted in the Maori Contingent and was serving with the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion when he was killed in action in Belgium on 3 June 1917. Most of the men buried in the cemetery did not die in what may be called ‘a big battle’. Instead they were killed through every day activities that occurred in trench warfare. Days were tedious, cold, and dangerous. There was constant artillery fire and regular bursts of machine gun fire. Each night troops were sent ‘over the top’ to repair damaged barbed wire emplacements, try to recover the wounded and dead, and remove unexploded ordinance. The Kaitaia Museum would like to thank the advertisers below for supporting their story.

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ANZAC DAY 2017 10/633 Private Richard John Denny

NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS RESTING AT CHUNUK BAIR TAKEN ON THE NIGHT OF 6 AUGUST 1915. [National Library of New Zealand, F58131]

rivate Richard John Denny was born on 21 July 1892 at Awanui (North). The names of his parents have not been found, but his uncle R. J. Denny lived in Awanui, while his aunt, Mrs. M. Carr, lived in Station Rd., Penrose, Auckland. He was a bushman by trade. Denny enlisted in Waituhi, Taumaranui and when he was medically examined on 18 August 1914 with the Wellington Infantry Battalion, Richard Denny was described as being: Height: 6 feet Weight: 162 pounds Chest: 34 – 37 inches Complexion: Dark Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Religion: Anglican His medical examination found him ﬁt and healthy, without any ‘defect’ that might be sufﬁcient to cause him to be rejected from the military. It states that he was bodily and mentally healthy and that he had no scars or deformities. He embarked from Wellington on HMNZT 10 Arawa bound for Suez, Egypt. From there he was rapidly dispatched to Gallipoli. On 26 April 1915 he was wounded in action and arrived at the No 5 Indian General Hospital with a gunshot wound to the hip and was placed on the dangerously ill list. On 20 May he was taken off the list and transferred to the 15th General Hospital in Alexandria. On 4 June he was transferred to the Convalescent Hospital at Mustapha. However, on the 12 June he was readmitted, this time to the 17th General Hospital in Alexandria. Then on 17 June he was discharged to duty and embarked for the Dardanelles on board HMT Annaberg. On 26 June he was admitted to the No. 16 Staty Hospital on Mudros with a bullet wound to the groin. HMT Scotian transported Denny to Alexandria and on to Cairo where he was admitted to the Egyptian Army Hospital.

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ANZAC DAY 2017 Kawakawa Memorial Library

ach year we gather here to pay homage to those who fought and died for our country. We listen as the names of the fallen are read, but have you ever wondered who were these people -what walks of life did they come from. Many of the names are still familiar in the area today. At a guess I would have thought most of them were farmers but I would have been mistaken. We at the Memorial Museum are trying to put together profiles of these men and find that they were a real diverse selection of the community. David Lemon was a Bushman. Thomas Leslie, a farmer. Thomas Lee, a mill hand. Lou and Clarence Goodhue were railway surface men. John Halliday, a Labourer. Frank Garaway, a cook. Captain Horace Eccles of the British Mounted Rifles was one of the first surgeons appointed to the Bay of Islands hospital and lived on the corner just past the three bridges. A bronze plaque inscribed Mr Eccles Surgeon was found in the vicinity and is now in the museum. And we have one woman mentioned. Ada Hawken who was matron of the hospital when she joined up in 1915 as a nursing sister. She was assigned to No. 19 General Hospital in Alexandria. So we had a very diverse selection of the community who all gave their lives to ensure that we who follow have the opportunity to live in freedom, harmony and unity. On this day each year we gather together to

honour and remember them. But what of the rest of the year – how do we keep that spirit of ANZAC alive? Hawken –Ada Gilbert. S/N 22/123 Ada Hawken was matron of the Bay of Islands Hospital when she joined up as a nursing sister to go to the Middle East on the 10 July 1915. She was assigned to No. 19 general hospital in Alexandria, Egypt. She contracted enteric fever and was admitted to hospital on the 26th October that year and died on 28th October 2015. She was buried in Alexandria at the Chatby Military Cemetery. Grave THE HOSPITAL STAFF –TAKEN IN MARCH 1914 (WHANGAREI) No. 536. Back row: Nurse E. Whisker, Nurse M. Quinn, Sister M. Illingworth, Nurse L Philpot, She was awarded the 1914- Nurse A. Jewiss, Nurse L Clanson. 15 Star, British war medal, Middle row: Nurse M Phillips (ﬁrst to register), Dr L Frazerhurst, Miss D Giffney (matron), C McKinnon, Nurse M. Newton. and the Victory medal. Her next of kin was listed as Front row: Sisters M Jamieson and A Hawkins. her father, Gilbert Hawken, by adding some wooden buildings. Four NZANS Boscoppa, Ranfurly Rd., nurses from the ﬁrst contingent were here. Epsom, Auckland. She was 30 years of age. Miss Margaret Bilton from New Zealand hut a No. 19 general Hospital, Alexandria, build by the member of the QA’s was also on the staff. Germans and staffed by German Deaconesses and was taken over in June 1915. Originally accommodating 300 beds it was increased to 1000 The Kawakawa Museum would like to thank the

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he Kawakawa Volunteer Corps was converted into a Mounted corps that year of 1905. Their first parade was held on 24th July, with Sergeant-Major Rodgers and Major Eccles being in command. An election of officers resulted in D. A. Graham as Captain, G. Tabuteau, First Lieutenant; and W. Culley, Second Lieutenant. At Oheawai, Dr. Menzies sold out in 1904 to Dr. Buckley who remained five years. At Kawakawa, Dr. Edmonds gave place to Dr Eccles. In 1905 the Medical Club decided that as it was unable to guarantee the amount a hitherto (250) the existing fund should be abandoned. However Dr. Eccles decided to remain in the district and continue practicing without a guarantee. Dr. Eccles was required to visit Rawhiti natives several times on behalf of the government in May 1906 as there was a typhoid fever outbreak there. The teachers, Mr and Mrs Welsh cared for the patients. Mr. W. Flowerday, Sanitary Inspector, was stationed at Rawhiti as Quarantine Agent and SS IDA was making two trips a week with provisions. Dr. Murray and two nurses were then sent up from Auckland by the Public Health Dept in July to take charge.

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ANZAC Day in Russell

s we near ANZAC Day each year, Russell RSA prepares for our annual commemorations. We join all New Zealanders in remembering those who have served their country in times of war and peace. We all think of World War 1 and Gallipoli - both the awful war and the tragic nine months of bloodshed in Turkey that ended in stalemate. 25 April 1915 was the day the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula. There, they were to create the proud ANZAC reputation for fighting hard in difficult conditions. Of the combined ANZACs, the 500-strong Maori Pioneer Battalion were lauded as the fiercest fighters on the Gallipoli Peninsular. On this day, it is always moving to remember that, New Zealand lost more men per head of population in World War 1 than any other of the allied countries. Even more so to know that the Russell-outer Bay of Islands community served by Russell’s RSA lost more men per head of population than any other in New Zealand. This year Ng iotonga Marae will host the traditional dawn service, something which is shared every

three years between Ng iotonga, Russell and Te R whiti Marae. A cursory scan of the war memorials in all three places shows the names of our people, M ori and P keh , who gave their lives. It is even more moving to know that amongst these are descendants of chiefs who signed the Treaty of Waitangi. Each year, after the dawn parade, a mid-morning parade assembles in Russell outside the RSA. They march to the war memorial on the village green, where the services’ ﬂags are lowered and a wreath-laying ceremony is held. The parade marches on to Christ Church to acknowledge those who fell in the Battle of Koror reka in 1845, and then the RSA cemetery before returning to the RSA for lunch and perhaps a rum. For years Russell Koror reka has included the Northern New Zealand War in its ANZAC commemorations. This year, we saw the government create for the ﬁrst time a national day marking the 19th-century New Zealand Wars, 28 October. If Gallipoli is known as the proving ground for New Zealand’s national identity, then the recognition of our own internal wars is a symbol of real maturity. Kei wareware t tou. Lest we forget.

On this day, it is always moving to remember that, New Zealand lost more men per head of population in World War 1 than any other of the allied countries.

AMONGST THE RUSSELL MUSEUM COLLECTION IS A WOODEN PATU, about which we know little except that it was carved by a Maori patient in a military hospital in London during World War 1. He gave it to a New Zealand nursing sister, Miss Kathleen Welch.

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Community Cenotaph coming to the Waipu Museum

He Pou Aroha, Community Cenotaph provides portable digital access to Online Cenotaph using innovative purpose-built digitisation kiosks. The digitisation kiosks allow you to search Online Cenotaph, lay a virtual poppy against a speciﬁc person’s name and contribute additional information to the database. Each kiosk contains an object photo booth that enables you to digitise your family’s war related items such as medals, diaries, letters and more, within minutes. The digitised objects are immediately uploaded to the relevant service person’s Online Cenotaph record for the world to see and future generations to remember.

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ook out for our roadshow unit at the Waipu Museum Museum from June 30th until August 31st as we come to discover, connect and share stories of those who served. Online Cenotaph is a comprehensive online hub for stories of New Zealand service personnel; it currently contains approximately 127,000 records in total with around 99,000 biographical records relating to WWI. Auckland Museum needs the help of communities throughout NZ to enhance these records further.

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AP McKay was the third son of John Johnson McKay and Alexandrina Stewart McKay who were married at Waipu and had 12 children born at their Millbrook Road family home. He was renowned as a good dancer and well loved by his sisters. A natural diplomat he could never be persuaded to pass judgment as to which sister made the best shortbread! As a young man Alex P McKay was engaged in timber work. With his brother Daniel he patched up the log dams by gathering up soil and ferns tto tightly pack the logs. This substance was known as Bukau. He became very skilful in this task and gained the nickname ‘Little Bukau’. Following this youthful occupation he became a farmer and was engaged in farming prior to his enlistment. He was a very good sportsman, an excellent footballer, a good runner and was once looked upon as a champion hurdler. He was involved with the community and had a keen interest in sport. Alex McKay was a member of the 1906 Waipu Rugby Team. He was an active volunteer on the committees of the Waipu Caledonian Society, the Waipu Agricultural Association and the Waipu Road Board. When war broke out he joined other Waipu comrades and went away with the first Expeditionary Force. After being stationed briefly in Egypt, along with others from the first expeditionary force, he was dispatched to GAllipoli, where sadly he met his death, 8th August 1915 at the battle for Chunuk Bair. The Waipu Museum would like to thank the advertisers below for supporting their story.

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Whangarei Art Museum is proudly hosting two exhibitions on tour Sovereign Trust. The public art gallery of the Whangarei District and custodians of its art collection and public art works in the city, Whangarei Art Museum is free and open daily. During the Easter school holidays, a range of activities are hidden in the dark of the gallery- inspired by the reﬂections and symmetry of ATA and perfect for kids of all ages. New and returning visitors are welcome and urged to view ATA and Whenua Hou before they close on May 21. Located at the Hub in the Town Basin (entry through I-SITE).

TA: a third reflection by Bob Jahnke and Whenua Hou- New Maori Ceramics. ATA has proved to be an exciting and thought provoking show, great for children and adults alike. In this, Professor Bob Jahnke explores Maori creation narratives and prophetic imagery through light and reflection. ‘Ata’ in Te Reo Maori means reflection, form, light and shadow, but also refers to the act of deliberation. Toured by Wellingtons Pataka Art + Museum, this new body of wall-mounted and free-standing installation works explores reflection using neon text and pattern inspired by the practices of Ivan Navarro and Paolo Scirpa. The technique results in a repetition of pattern that appears infinite but disappears into a void of darkness. Through these optical effects Jahnke endeavours to capture the Maori notion of the emergence of Te Ao Marama the world of light from the darkness of Te Po. Like light through a prism, Jahnke’s sculptures offer us alternative perspectives, expanding our linear view of history into a spectrum of thought and colour. Whenua Hou showcases a survey of current uku (clay) practice, and the work is likely to be quite different from what you may have seen before. It features the diverse work of 8 Maori artists who

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