Getting the monument rebuilt was no easy task. The New Zealand Government Heritage Ministry are the custodians of New Zealand’s war graves but this is no longer a war grave. The remains of those buried in a mass grave at the foot of the monument were re-interred in a Garden of Remembrance in the Town Cemetery in Vrede in 1965. However, the fact that Langverwacht was the first occasion when a significant number of New Zealand soldiers lost their lives in a war on foreign soil was a deciding factor. The Prime Minister, Helen Clark, in fact ordered the rebuilding. Let into the base of the monument was a white marble plaque with inlaid lead lettering giving the names of the fallen. The plaque had been broken, fortunately into only two pieces. Finding the missing piece was the easy part.