New Zealand's First World War Heritage by Imelda Bargas & Tim Shoebridge

Author:Imelda Bargas & Tim Shoebridge [Bargas, Imelda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
Published: 2015-02-21T22:00:00+00:00

Provincial memorials: Waikumete Cemetery, Great North Road, Auckland (above left); Karori Cemetery, Old Karori Road, Wellington (above right); Ruru Lawn Cemetery, Raymond Road, Christchurch (right above); and Andersons Bay Cemetery, Tomahawk Road, Dunedin (right below). When 20-year-old Terence Carroll jumped overboard during a flu-induced fit of delirium on the Tahiti’s ill-fated 1918 voyage, he drowned because the ship was not allowed to turn to rescue him due to Admiralty orders. Carroll and the many Tahiti flu victims who were buried at sea are commemorated on the four New Zealand provincial memorials to those ‘denied a known and honoured grave’ during the First and Second World Wars. The government built the Wellington memorial in 1930 or 1931, but the Otago, Canterbury and Auckland memorials were built only in the early 1960s at the urging of the Imperial War Graves Commission.

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