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New Zealand’s Coastwatchers To Be Remembered
Media Release
12 October 2012
New Zealand’s Coastwatchers To Be RememberedA wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of New Zealand Coastwatchers' service in the Second World War will be held at the National War Memorial on Monday, 15 October 2012 at 11am.
His Excellency Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae, GNZM, QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand will attend the ceremony alongside Government Ministers, the Chief of Defence Force and Chief and Deputy Chief of the Royal New Zealand Navy.
During the Second
World War, New Zealand established Coastwatching stations at
various islands throughout the pacific to track enemy
movements and report them back to the allied forces.
On
15 October 1942, seventeen New Zealand Coastwatchers,
together with five British and Australian civilians, were
executed on Tarawa Atoll, in what is now Kiribati. One other
New Zealand Coastwatcher also died while a prisoner of
war.
The exact location of the Coastwatchers’ remains is still unknown.
What: Coastwatchers
70th Anniversary Commemoration
Where:
National War Memorial, Buckle St,
Wellington
When: 11am Monday, 15
October.
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