Rnz: Te Ahi Kaa

When your job involves caring for a website that memorialises the 28 Māori Battalion understandably your knowledge of military terminology and history is more than say, the average punter, Yet nothing beats the visceral knowledge gained when you actually return to the places where the soldiers fought and in some cases died. In May, Leanne Tamaki was part of a tour of largely C Company descendants who travelled to Tunisia, Italy and Greece and experienced first-hand how it must have been for the Māori men who were in the 28th Māori Battalion during the Second World War.