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Recovering New Zealand's wartime fallen
The story of New Zealand's fallen soldiers who remain buried in foreign fields, often unprotected, and the whanau who want to bring their remains home, is told in a new Maori TV documentary. In Foreign Fields is hosted by Witi Ihimaera who shares his own story - the pressure to return the body of one of his relations to Aotearoa New Zealand. In Foreign Fields is directed by John Keir. John had his own story of a lost soldier in his wife's family, and they'd visited Gallipoli so they could find his grave. But John tells Lynn Freeman that's not what started him down the path of suggesting the documentary to Maori TV. In Foreign Fields premieres on ANZAC Day on Maori TV
Professor Peter Stanley from the University of New South Wales, is the author of Die in Battle (2015), the first book to recognise Indians serving in the Gallipoli campaign.
Titled ‘Duty, Honour, Country’- the display will include a collection of black and white photographs and artefacts of Sikh soldiers who served in Malaya, Singapore, Burma(Myanmar), Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, the Middle East Africa and Europe.
The curator of this exhibition is Harchand Singh Bedi who told SBS Punjabi that most of the photographs are from the archives of the Imperial War Museum in Elephant and Castle, London.
Remembering the turbaned titans of World Wars
Guru Gobind Singh's famous words;
Chirian to mein baaz tudaun.
Gidran to mein sher banaun.
Sawa lakh se ek ladaun. Tabe Gobind Singh Naam kahaun.
Gidran to mein sher banaun.
Sawa lakh se ek ladaun. Tabe Gobind Singh Naam kahaun.
(It is when I make sparrows fight hawks and
mould 'giddars' into lions,
that I am called Gobind Singh).
Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke on Berlioz and Steve Jobs
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