A First World War hero and commander of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Bernard Freyberg was British-born but New Zealand-raised. He proved to be a charismatic and popular military leader who would later serve a term as Governor-General
The small Otago seaside township of Aramoana, near Dunedin, was the scene of the deadliest criminal shooting in New Zealand history when David Gray began a 34-hour shooting spree that left 13 people dead.
Gray, a 33-year-old unemployed Aramoana resident, went on his rampage following a verbal dispute with his neighbour. After shooting his next-door neighbour and daughter he began indiscriminately shooting at anything that moved. Armed with a scoped semi-automatic rifle, Gray killed 13 people, including local police Sergeant Stewart Guthrie, who had been the first to respond to the emergency. Gray was tracked down during a house-by-house search the next day. He started firing wildly and was shot dead by Special Tactics Group police.
Image: ute at Aramoana with kids' bikes in the back and police paint marks on the ground (still from TVNZ film)
13 November
