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Sir Peter Henry Buck - copy of a handwritten report by Buck, titled `With the Maori Contingent - Egypt', written in 1915 : Personal Collection; Personal Narrative 1915.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buck, Sir Peter Henry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- 1915
- Summary:
- Description: Major Peter Buck served with the NZEF Pioneer Battalion in France.11-page carbon copy of a handwritten report by Buck, titled `With the Maori Contingent - Egypt', written in 1915. With it is a 5-page typescript of it, by Eric Ramsden, with the note that the report was found in one of Buck's field notebooks.The report describes the contingent's experiences and relates an incident in Egypt when the Maori troops, with Buck as their spokesman, protested about being sent on garrison duty at Khartoum, rather than being sent to the front.See also MS-Papers-0196-341A.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource (viewed on October 15, 2018).
- Part of the Ramsden, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962, Papers (MS-Group-0181).
- AMDigital Reference: MS-Papers-0196-340A.
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