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Members of the 2000 All Blacks visit the grave of Dave Gallaher at Nine Elms Cemetery, Belgium. Gallaher, captain of the All Black 1905–1906 Originals team, was killed at Passchendaele on 4 October 1917.
From left to right: Norm Maxwell, Greg Somerville, Mark Hammett, Todd Blackadder and the team manager, Andrew Martin.

Dave Gallaher's gravestone
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