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Not forgotten: The startling new revelations about NZ s WWI sacrifice
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By: Clare de Lore.
New research shows that the tally of our dead from World War I is much higher than officially recorded. It s time to end the injustice. By Clare de Lore. They were the walking wounded – some possibly better described as the living dead: men who returned from World War I but who died of war-related mental or physical injuries and illnesses in the years that followed. There is a growing interest in WWI history and finally the stories of many of these mostly single, damaged and often forgotten men have been researched and verified. More than a century after the end of the Great War, an estimated 2000 are missing from the official New Zealand Roll of Honour, which was published in 1924.