AKE AKE: B COMPANY REMEMBERS

Year: 2001
Reference: F49779
Media type: Moving image

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Year: 2001
Reference: F49779
Media type: Moving image

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Place of production: New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories: Television
Duration: 0:30:00
Broadcast Date: 25/04/2001
Production company: STORY INC PRODUCTION
Credits: Director: Steve La Hood
Writer: James McLean
Narrator: Rāwiri Paratene
Production Manager: Karl Zohrab
Camera: Chris Terpstra
Editor: Jonathan Woodford
Online Editor: Martin Moose Culpit
Online Editor: 2d Post
Sound: Michael Kerslake
Engineer: Tim Farrant
Sound Design: Bruno Barrett Garnier
Mix: Bruno Barrett Garnier
Mix: Marmalade Studios
Research: David Filer
Research: Martin Tatare
Research: Ann Sommerville
Original Music: Clive Cockburn
Exhibition Design: Chris Currie
Exhibition Design: Ann Sommerville
Exhibition Design: Dean Cato
Project Manager: Cherie Meecham
For Rotorua Museum: Greg McManus
For Rotorua District Council: Charles Roberts
Thanks To: Alexander Turnbull Library
Thanks To: Film World
Thanks To: Imperial War Museum
Thanks To: National Archives Of New Zealand Te Whare Tohu Tuhituhinga O Aotearoa
Thanks To: Nz Television Archive
Thanks To: New Zealand Film Archive
Thanks To: Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum
Thanks To: Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust
Thanks To: Bay Of Plenty Community Trust
Thanks To: Lottery Grants Board
Thanks To: Rotorua District Council
Thanks To: The Men Of B Company And Their Families
Sound Design: Marmalade Studios

Interviews with surviving members of 28th Māori Battalion’ B Company who talk about events during their service in the Second World War.
0:00:25 interviews:
George Rehu, B Company. Kitty Tihi, George’s wife. Sonny Sewell, B Company. Kaputerangi (Les) Stewart, B Company. Arthur Midwood, B Company. B&W film footage: B Company in Greece. Waimanuka (Boysie) Merriman, B Company.

B&W film footage: B Company in Crete. Florence Maaka (nee Stewart), sister of lost B Company solider. Rei Rautahi, B Company. B&W film footage: B Company in the Egyptian desert, El Alamein. Leonie (Bub) Ngatai, niece of lost B Company solider. Muriel Stewart, sister of lost B Company solider. B&W film footage: B Company in the Libyan desert.
B&W film footage: B Company in Takrouna, Tunisian village.

B&W film footage: B Company in Italy, 1943. Tai Paraki, B Company. B&W film footage: B Company in Casino, Italy, 1943. Rei Rautahi, B Company. Rei has been paralysed for 60 years. Monty Wikiriwhi, B Company. Monty’s legs were shattered by gun fire. B&W film footage: B Company in Casino, Italy, 1943. B&W film footage: B Company Spring 1944, Americans march into Rome. B&W film footage: B Company returns after April 1945s victory. Continued interviews: 3578 men fought with 28 Maori Battalion: 640 were killed: 1791 were wounded: 237 were taken prisoner.
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