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Kakanui memorial

Kakanui memorial

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Kakanui war memorial.

The memorial is a dark grey polished granite square obelisk in three sections on a plastered concrete plinth on three steps. The memorial includes two rose beds and an extensive area of public land on the corner of Kakanui Rd and Fenwick St.

Note there is also a Kakanui memorial grove.

Kakanui Memorial names

WW1
C.H.S.Barnett
A.E.Cooper
R.H.Grenfell
C.H.Maffey
H.Southgate
L.H.Wright

WW2
D.I.Cooper
J.W.Isbister
S.S.F.Wilson

Information and images courtesy Bruce Comfort, 2009

Find out more about the people listed on this memorial from Auckland Museum's Cenotaph database

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How to cite this page: 'Kakanui memorial', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/kakanui-memorial, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 10-Nov-2010

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