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Deborah and Alma war memorial

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Deborah and Alma war memorial. This memorial is a 3.5 metre tall granite square obelisk on five concrete steps. It records 22 names of those from the district killed in war: 17 First World War and 5 Second World War.

The names include Sergeant Donald . F. Brown who became the first member of the New Zealand forces to win a VC on the Western Front for his actions at the Somme on 15 Septemeber 1916. He was killed in battle two weeks later.

Credit

Main image: Bruce Comfort, 2009. Other images: Bruce Ringer, 2014.

Find out more about the people listed on this memorial on the Auckland Museum's Cenotaph Database.

How to cite this page

Deborah and Alma war memorial, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/deborah-and-alma-war-memorial, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated