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Waiata for Victoria Cross winner at Ruatoria, 1943

Women perform a waiata during the hui in Ruatoria to award the Victoria Cross to Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, October 1943. Apirana Ngata is in the foreground.

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Keywords

maori in war
apirana ngata
victoria cross
maori battalion
ngarimu
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference no:  PAColl-6301-60
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