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Karamea war memorial

Karamea war memorial

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There are memorial gates with plaques outside the Karamea Domain - but this is a memorial that is like a spade that has had both a new handle and a new blade.

Memorial gates were unveiled on 18 April 1926 (and there is a photograph in the Museum). According to local historian Dulcie McNabb the gates and their pillars were damaged by a cattle truck in the early 1950s, and the gates were moved to the local cemetery. New pillars, made of concrete blocks, were later erected. The cast-iron plaques are obviously post WW-2 as they record the names of those killed in both wars.

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Names on Karamea memorial

The Plunket rooms are a Second World War memorial. (An image from April 2011 shows that the blue trim has now been painted red.)

Credit

Information from Simon Nathan, 2008
Images: Simon Nathan, 2008 and Francis Vallance, 2011

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

How to cite this page

Karamea war memorial, URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/karamea-war-memorial, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated

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