This cross at Huirangi, east of New Plymouth, marks the grave of more than 40 Māori from Waikato and Taranaki (Ngāti Hauā, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Mahuta and Te Āti Awa). They were killed making an audacious dawn attack on No. 3 redoubt (Pratt’s sap) on 23 January 1861. The battle lasted over an hour, with many of the casualties resulting from vicious fighting in a trench. The redoubt was held by the 40th Regiment, which lost five men in the action.
The original wooden memorial cross was replaced by this concrete one in 1941.
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Private collection
by Ron Lambert
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