Culture Waitaki Blog
The collaborative blog of Culture Waitaki, featuring thoughts and ideas from the Forrester Gallery, Waitaki Museum and Archive, Waitaki District Libraries.
This cloth is a souvenir of Egypt from World War One. A soldier sent it back to New Zealand as a Christmas present 99 years ago.
Donald Forrester Brown VC was a keen rugby player and his club, Excelsior, presented him with a cap on
William Duncan Neill received a letter in 1917. At that time he was serving as a Sergeant in the New Zealand Army.
Edward John Weller was working in Oamaru as a coach builder in 1914. He was quick to enlist, only 8 days after war was declared. He was 20 years old.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. Hargest unveiled Oamaru's World War I memorial on Anzac Day in 1926.
After more than 30 years and hundreds of thousands of visitors the Forrester Gallery street level space and stairway are to receive a well-earned facelift in keeping with the heritage value of the Category 1 listed, RA Lawson designed building.
