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Emotions ran high for Ann Robbie at the weekend when she received two community service awards within 24 hours of being released from Dunedin Hospital.
It is believed the memorial was last visible in the 1960s or 1970s, Robbie said. “We’re narrowing it down, I reckon we’re within 100 to 150 square metres of it [the memorial].”
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Mervyn Guise, left, and Iain McDonald head off into the bush on Bluff Hill on Saturday in search of a memorial in memory of Ian McKenzie and his brother George who died in World War I. Guise, McDonald and other searchers did not locate the memorial. Alexander worked at the quarry and the owners of it gave him a piece of polished granite rock, from Bluff Hill, for the memorial. The engraved inscription on the rock included the names of his sons.
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Bryce Horrell holds a draft copy of information he has compiled for a book on Southland military men who were killed or died during World War I and have had their names put on war memorials throughout the province.
Bryce Horrell is close to finishing a book on Southland military men who were killed or died during World War I and later named on the province’s war memorials, honours boards and rolls of honour. Horrell, with help from Southland war memorial restorer Ann Robbie, is reasonably confident he has located all of them, with varying degrees of information about each one.