Photos: Long-lost dead of Te Ruapekapeka honoured
3 Feb, 2021 07:07 PM
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Warriors of mass haka group Te Tira Taua arrive at the site of the British encampment during the Battle of Te Ruapekapeka 175 years ago. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Warriors of mass haka group Te Tira Taua arrive at the site of the British encampment during the Battle of Te Ruapekapeka 175 years ago. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
Waitangi Day commemorations got under way in earnest on Wednesday as more than 700 people gathered on an isolated hilltop south of Kawakawa to remember the victims of a battle 175 years ago. The dedication of a memorial at Ruapekapeka to 12 British soldiers, whose unmarked grave was rediscovered in 2017, was Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern s first official engagement of a four-day stay in Northland.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern s Northland visit starts at emotion-charged Ruapekapeka commemoration
2 Feb, 2021 08:49 PM
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PM Jacinda Ardern, Willie Apiata, Governor General Dame Patsy Reddy and British High Commissioner Laura Clarke are welcomed onto Ruapekapeka.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has kicked off a four-day visit to Northland at an emotion-filled unveiling of a memorial for British soldiers killed during the Ruapekapeka battle of 1846.
Ardern, Governor General Patsy Reddy and British High Commissioner Laura Clarke were at the unveiling of the memorial stone, which sits over the grave where the 12 British troops killed during the battle were found during an archaeological dig in 2017.