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17 August
1942 Attack on the Nino Bixio
118 New Zealand prisoners of war died when the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio was torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea by a British submarine.
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- W. Wynne Mason, Prisoners of War, War History Branch, Wellington, 1954 (NZETC)
1839 NZ Company ship Tory arrives
The New Zealand Company party, which included William Wakefield and his nephew Jerningham, was sent to make preparations for organised settlement. more...
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- Ships, Famous Tory (1966 Encyclopaedia)
- The Voyage of the 'Tory' (NZETC)
- Wakefield, Lieutenant-Colonel William Hayward (1966 Encyclopaedia)
- E.G.Wakefield biography (DNZB)
- Immigration and the NZ Company (Te Ara)
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