South African War Memorial

Returned Services Association

From Queen's Wharf on 21 October 1899, 215 men of the First Contingent embarked for the South African War aboard the SS Waiwera - The first of more than 250,000 New Zealand men and women to serve their country in overseas wars in the following centrury.

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