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Featherston incident plaque
The plaque at the Featherston memorial is part of a small memorial garden that marks the site of a riot that resulted in the deaths of 48 Japanese prisoners of war and one guard on 25 February 1943.
Transcript of the haiku on the plaque:
Behold the summer grass
All that remains of the
Dreams of warriors.
Steve Watters, 2006
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