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Arrival of presentation gun, Cook Islands

Arrival of a presentation field gun for the war memorial in Cook Islands, 1919. The captured German gun was presented by the New Zealand government.

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  • Rarotongan ammunition handlers
    Pacific aftermath

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war memorials
cook islands
pacific islanders
Credit

Reference: James Cowan, The Maoris in the Great War, 1926. Chap 18, between pp. 156–7 (NZETC)

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