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The memorial honouring Samuel Frickleton

A bronze statue of Henry Nicholas was unveiled in the Christchurch Park of Remembrance in March 2007.

Women perform a waiata during the hui in Ruatoria to award the Victoria Cross to Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, October 1943.

Image of Victoria Cross winner Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu

The 28th (Maori) Battalion established a formidable reputation as one of New Zealand’s finest fighting forces.

A rifleman in the 3rd Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, Samuel Frickleton won his Victoria Cross during the attack at Messines on 7 June 1917.

Following his death, Henry Nicholas was buried in the French cemetery at Beaudignies. However, as the battalion wished to show greater respect, his body was exhumed and reinterred, with full military honours, in the Vertigneul churchyard in northern France.

One of the German machine-guns captured by Leslie Andrew on 31 July 1917

Henry Nicholas earned a Victoria Cross when he single-handedly rushed the enemy, shot the officer and charged the remaining Germans with his bayonet.

Leslie Andrew gained a Victoria Cross for his 'cool daring, initiative and fine leadership'.

Charles Hazlitt Upham VC and members of his platoon