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Funeral for Tangiwai disaster victims

Funeral for Tangiwai disaster victims

HRH the Duke of Edinburgh attends the mass funeral at Karori Cemetery, Wellington, on 31 December 1953 for 21 of the victims of the Tangiwai tragedy. A few months later the grave was exhumed when it became clear that a number of the bodies were misidentified.

See also Tangiwai Memorial information on the Ministry for Culture and Heritage website. 

Credit:

Archives New Zealand
Reference: AAQT 6538 9 E/6
Photographer: E. Woollett
Permission of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga must be obtained before any re-use of this material.

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Anonymous
16 Sep 2008
I just know that it was the biggest disaster ever and heaps of people died like my great-great-grandad.

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