New Zealand Remembrance Army
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Can you help us find this soldiers family?
In Napier there lies an unmarked grave of a WW1 veteran.
We are looking to get a headstone for this former serviceman.
11304 Pte William Lee Otago Infantry Regiment, NZEF. His NOK was Henry Lee, a butcher in Whangarei.
He was with the 12th reinforcements.
He was born 22 July 1870 in Ireland.
He was 45 when he enlisted and was injured in Egypt. He was then discharged via a medical board and sent to NZ.
He served from Dec 1915 to May 1918.
He was trapped by the Napier floods in 1938 in a landslide and died a few days later.
He lived in Wellington at 149 Willis Street (where his medafter the war yet is buried in Napier, dying the 4th August 1938
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Poll: Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝
In The Post’s opinion piece on the developments set to open across Aotearoa in 2026, John Coop suggests that, as a nation, we’re “allergic to exuberance.”
We want to know: Are we really allergic to showing our excitement?
Is it time to lean into a more optimistic view of the place we call home? As big projects take shape and new opportunities emerge, perhaps it’s worth asking whether a little more confidence (and enthusiasm!) could do us some good.
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41.4% Yes
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33.7% Maybe?
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25% No
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