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The site also includes background information to the life of Walter Callaway and his war service in South Africa as well as other related information.
Click here to access the the Walter Callaway brochure
Walter Callaway or Wata te Wahahuia :
* was with the first group of New Zealanders to leave its shores to fight abroad
* was most likely the first Maori to enlist
* enlisted in spite of the British dictum that no Maori could serve in 'a white mans war'
* was critically injured while rescuing an Australian
* had his own life saved by an Australian surgeon while operated on without anesthetic
* was of the first Maori to become an officer in the NZ Defence Force
* was the first New Zealander to contract smallpox
* was the longest serving New Zealander in the war
* volunteered on three consecutive occasions to serve in South Africa
* was most likely the last to be discharged from war service in 1902.
This compelling biography, 'Walter Callaway- Maori Warrior of the Boer War' is the first account of a Maori serving in the South African War (1899-1902). Walter Callaway's story tells the story of a little known New Zealand war hero who particpated in a war which a later British Prime Minister described as 'infamous,criminal and wholly indefensible.' The conflict is often referred to as 'New Zealand's Forgotten War' yet its impact on the then fledgling nation was immense.
Walter Callaway provides a personal yet enlightening perspective of what New Zealander volunteers had to endure during that period of conflict.
It is a story that needed to be told.
If interested in purchasing this book then link to the "order book" page
The site also includes background information to the life of Walter Callaway and his war service in South Africa as well as other related information.
Click here to access the the Walter Callaway brochure
Walter Callaway or Wata te Wahahuia :
* was with the first group of New Zealanders to leave its shores to fight abroad
* was most likely the first Maori to enlist
* enlisted in spite of the British dictum that no Maori could serve in 'a white mans war'
* was critically injured while rescuing an Australian
* had his own life saved by an Australian surgeon while operated on without anesthetic
* was of the first Maori to become an officer in the NZ Defence Force
* was the first New Zealander to contract smallpox
* was the longest serving New Zealander in the war
* volunteered on three consecutive occasions to serve in South Africa
* was most likely the last to be discharged from war service in 1902.
This compelling biography, 'Walter Callaway- Maori Warrior of the Boer War' is the first account of a Maori serving in the South African War (1899-1902). Walter Callaway's story tells the story of a little known New Zealand war hero who particpated in a war which a later British Prime Minister described as 'infamous,criminal and wholly indefensible.' The conflict is often referred to as 'New Zealand's Forgotten War' yet its impact on the then fledgling nation was immense.
Walter Callaway provides a personal yet enlightening perspective of what New Zealander volunteers had to endure during that period of conflict.
It is a story that needed to be told.
If interested in purchasing this book then link to the "order book" page
