Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Apart from the monument on the burial site at Langverwacht, there are several places in New Zealand where their men are remembered. Farrier Leonard Retter was from Johnsonville, now a suburb of Wellington in the North Island where his father was the blacksmith. Two of his other sons served in New Zealand contingents in the Anglo Boer war. A monument now stands in Moorefield Road in Johnsonville and a short distance away are memorial gates at the entrance to a public park.

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