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TE HOKOWHITU A TU : THE MAORI PIONEER BATTALION IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR by PUGSLEY, CHRISTOPHER
First Edition
Auckland: Reed Books., 1995. pp: 147. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, documents. Endpapers are facsimiles of the Regimental roll. Nominal Rolls of the Maori Contingents and Reinforcements 1914 - 18; Honours, Awards and Casualties of the New Zealand ( Maori ) Pioneer Battalion. Notes, bibliography, index. Bump to bottom fore-corner, affecting about an half-inch of the text block. The story of the Maori Contingent at Gallipoli and later in France with the Pioneers being added to the New Zealand forces in 1917. Usually a Pioneer Battalion is looked upon as a labour force and is looked upon as something of a second-class soldier. The Maori Pioneers certainly laid railways, built bridges and dug trenches in the combat zones however they were also a formidable part of the NZ Division's fighting force and were given the same recognition as the infantrymen alongside whom they fought. The Pioneer Battalion was first on the field, fought alongside the infantry, and were last off the field. In 1919 the King's Colour was returned to NZ along with the colours of the other three battalions of the Nez Zealand Expeditionary Force. Those colours were presented and now hang in various cathedrals and museums....but not that of the Pioneer Battalion. That colour went missing in the 1920s and was not found until the early 1990s. . ISBN: 0790003988. First Edition. Cloth, Gilt Lettering.. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. History, Military, New Zealand, Maori, WW I..
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