Hard News: The War Stories
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ChrisW, in reply to
My Gallipoli bound Granddad, just before he left Middle East ...
I'm interested (my grandfather in the Wellington Mounted Rifles). Yours was with the Canterburys in the immediately post-War deployment from Palestine to Gallipoli?
I'm trying to reconcile the horse story with that described after careful research in Terry Kinloch's 2007 book 'Devils on Horses' on the Mounted Rifles Brigade. Might it relate to the small proportion of CMR horses taken to Gallipoli in Nov1918, but not recorded as brought off again in January 1919?On the general matter of not repatriating the NZ horses, there were many things money could not buy in the world of 1918/19. In addition to the quarantine regulations for horses, there was rather a lot else against it. Millions of people were dying of influenza. Ships were in short supply after so much warfare - it took most of a year for enough shipping to be organised to bring the men home let alone horses. Food for humans and horses was short in the Middle East. One worn-out troop ship heading for NZ in March 1919 broke down so much the food ran out except for bread and tea for several days ...
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Raymond A Francis, in reply to
Hard to believe but the local paper claims via a book written by a local boy that Waimate ex residents are more than 1% of the army
Not bad for a small town that is one of the whitest in the country (not that last fact is worth celebrating) but rather the hard time that we had in the 1980s -
Islander, in reply to
Not bad for a small town that is one of the whitest in the country (not that last fact is worth celebrating) but rather the hard time that we had in the 1980s
Um, there's a lot of -covert Maori? - in Waimate, inlcuding 2 sets of my whanau.
Each of which have sons in ATC... -
Raymond A Francis, in reply to
I know that Islander, like you a fair number of local Maori are whanau (Tumaru and Te Maihroa clan) or have some sort of connection
The whiteness is based on the census figures
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Celia Wade-Brown, in reply to
We sang that verse in Wellington Cathedral.
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Richard Aston, in reply to
This article from the VUW Student Magazine Salient had a pretty big effect on me when I first read it.
Had a big effect on me reading it today Graeme!. It’s bloody shocking.
Baxter’s resilience and total commitment to his ideals is breathtaking, doubt I could have done it. -
Richard Aston, in reply to
We sang that verse in Wellington Cathedral.
Good on ya Celia , that's good to know .
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