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South African War Memoral

d. 1999

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From Queen's Wharf on 1 October 1899, 215 men of the first contingent embarked for the South African War aboard the SS Waiwera - the first of more than 250,000 New Zealand men and women to serge their country in the overseas wars in the following century.

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