Wārea war memorial, located at Cape Egmont Boating Club, Bayly Road, Cape Egmont (formerly at Wārea School).
In 2007 a second plaque was added to the memorial for the Pungarehu district. The names for this plaque were taken from the honours board at the Pungarehu hall.
Both plaques, and an additional one, were re-installed and unveiled on 25 April 2021.
Inscription
Erected by the residents of Warea
To the memory of those who served
1914 -1918
Roll of Honour
- W. Bell
- F Pierson
- Reg Hill
- W Thrush
- O E Julian
- W Wade
- M Lawn
- H Wells
- C Pierson
- K Wells
Returned Men
- J Aylward
- C McLachlan
- W Barr
- D McLachlan
- F Clothier
- J McLachlan
- S Frost
- C W Revell
- J Jones
- T Roberts
- T B Judge
- A J Thompson
- C Magon
- B Wade
- W McLachlan
- E Wilson
1939 - 1945
Roll of Honour
- Flight Sergeant J L McDonald
- Sergeant Pilot I H W Franks
Returned Men
- E J Caldwell
- R Julian
- A D Sole
- C I Deacon
- L A Luckin
- M P Sole
- W B Franks
- G H Luckin
- L G Stott
- P N Hill
- C A Meier
- M J Wells
- S D Harrison
- H C Magon
- C V Wells
- A J Julian
- P Rowe
- A R Wells
- S R Julian
- O G Sole
- W Wright
- F A Sole
For King and Country
Find out more about the people listed above on Auckland War Memorial Museum's Cenotaph database
Article about this memorial
Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 2006, re relocation from Warea School (closed) to Cape Egmont Boating Club
Pat Sole was literally the last man standing in Cape Egmont yesterday.
Mr Sole was the district's only war veteran who was still alive and present at a ceremony to relocate a memorial flagpole and plaque from Warea School.
Residents concerned that the memorial war plaque would be lost with the closure of the school last year relocated it to the Cape Egmont boat club yesterday.
Dozens of men from the Warea district, who fought in World War I and II, were listed on the plaque and their names were read out in a public ceremony. But Mr Sole was the only person from the plaque present.
‘It's a wonderful, unique opportunity to see my name and be allowed to see it there,’ Mr Sole said.
The only other survivor from the plaque was his cousin M.P. Sole, who now lived in Kaitāia.
However, Father Francis Garty said there was no chance the war veterans would be forgotten.
‘What's taken place in the last 15 years I don't know, but there's been a great trend towards Anzac Day,’ he said.
"You only had to be at Okato this morning to realise it means a lot to a lot of people."
About 50 people attended the afternoon ceremony at the boat club, where the names of war veterans from Pungarehu were also read out.
Thanks to Ron Lambert, Puke Ariki, for the main image and information on this page.
Other images courtesy Simon Nathan, 2018 and Sam Goodin, 2021