Photo / FileA ceremony will be held in Gisborne today to present medals to whānau of members of the Māori Battalion who served in World War II but never received their honours. Members of the 28th Māori Battalion march up Nias Track to the Waitangi Treaty grounds in 1940. However, he said Māori Battalion members believed there was no mana in receiving a medal in the post. Stone said other families of members of the Māori Battalion were still owed medals. The 28th Māori Battalion at a transit camp in Egypt on the morning after their evacuation from Crete, June 1941.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 16, 2021 22:20 UTC