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5th
MAR

Battalion veterans gather at Orakei

Posted by karere under Maori News

The voices were a little weaker as the “Maori Battalion” song rang out across Orakei Marae this morning. Only 50 frail ancient warriors now remain of the 28th Maori Battalion, a legendary unit that in World War II fought across Greece, Crete, North Africa and through Italy. Their oldest, a 101 year old veteran, was not there, but two men who signed up in 1939 were. “While the number of battalion veterans, like all those who served in the Second World War, grows thinner with each passing year, the memory of their service lives on,” Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand told the gathering. “Sergeant” Tautini Glover, of C Company, smiled at the thought it might be the last reunion. “We’ll get together, in ones and twos, and share memories and beer, as long as we are able to,” he told Stuff. Some, he said, wanted to end formal reunions, but he wanted to keep coming.

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