
A memorial wall and gate were dedicated in the soldiers' section of the Kawhia cemetery on Anzac Day 2002. The accompanying plaque lists 12 men from Kawhia and district who gave their lives in the First World War and ten who gave their lives in the Second World War. It also lists the name of Barry Wahanui, who served in Borneo, Malaysia and Vietnam, and who died in a car accident in Malaysia in 1969.
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