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Mounted special constables guard the Devonport Steam Ferry Company's offices during the Auckland Waterfront Strike, November 1913.

Pupils and teachers at Devonport Primary School head for air raid shelters

Devonport South African War peace memorial. Devonport has two distinct South African War memorials in different locations at the foot of the town centre: a concrete-and-tile fountain with a bronze centrepiece statue and a curved metal arch topped by a gas (now electric) lamp. This South African memorial celebrates peace and is a metal arch with lamp above railed concrete steeps leading from the seaside walkway along the northern shore of Waitematā Harbour down to the beach below Devonport’s town centre. Seven New Zealand South African War memorials featured lamps, which were

South African War memorial fountain in Devonport

The Royal New Zealand Navy memorial at Devonport, Auckland. The memorial lists the names of 352 officers and men of the Royal New Zealand Navy, Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve and Royal New Zealand Naval Vounteer Reserve who died in all parts of the world during the Second World War and who have no known grave. Most were lost or buried at sea, although the memorial also honours some who died in Japanese captivity.

Devonport School war memorial.

Frank Lynch's bronze statue of the "untidy soldier" features on the Devonport war memorial. Another casting was used for the Masterton memorial. Site Style Ornamentation Unveiling Date No of Dead park/gardens soldier   13-Apr-24 86