What did you do in the war Gran?

What did you do in the war Gran? Hawke’s Bay and East Coast women who served overseas in World War One.

The role of Hawke’s Bay and East Coast women who served overseas in World War One is the focus of a fascinating public lecture at MTG Century Theatre on Sunday 5 July.

Professor Kay Morris Matthews will speak about her on-going research for regional museum exhibitions, such as MTG Hawke’s Bay’s current exhibition From the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: Hawke’s Bay at War 1914-18.

Her focus will be on the 64 Hawke’s Bay and East Coast women who served overseas in Egypt, France, Greece and England in WWI, and their lives before and after the war. Several later received New Zealand’s highest military awards.

Questions that will be addressed include; did any of the women from our region identify as Māori, did any of them die overseas, and were any of them told not to go but went ahead and did so anyway?

If you’d like to know the answers to these questions, you’ll have to come along.

What: What did you do in the war Gran: by Kay Morris Matthews
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier
When: 2pm Sunday 5 July
Entry: By gold coin donation

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