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Plaque honours WWI officer snubbed for speaking against Gallipoli

Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Bowler s great-grandchildren speak about him in this video, from 2015.
A Timaru plaque honouring a WWI officer snubbed after speaking out against Gallipoli, has been visited by family members for the first time, after its official unveiling last year was cancelled because of Covid-19.
Edmund Bowler, then of Gore, left for war on December 14, 1914, as a Lieutenant-Colonel, one of New Zealand’s highest ranking officers, and is believed to be the first member of the New Zealand forces ashore during the landing.
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Vicki Parker, left, Ray Bennett and Elizabeth Francis visit the Timaru grave of WWI officer Edmund Bowler, who was snubbed by the military after World War I for speaking out against the Gallipoli landings. ....

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Not forgotten: The startling new revelations about NZ's WWI sacrifice

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. ....

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