Home Little Maori Home A Memoir of the Maori Contingent, 1914-1916 by Rikihana Carkeek. SIGNED by Louise Carkeek.

Published by Totika Publications (2003), First Edition. Wellington

Softback in near new condition, no owner inscriptions. 157pp; b/w photos.

"Rikihana Carkeek's singular and gripping narrative recounts the day to day experiences of a young soldier in the First Maori Contingent which participated in the Dardanelles Campaign of the Great War."--Back cover. The author was born in Otaki in 1890 and enlisted at age 24 and served in the Dardanelles campaign. Wounded in 1915 he later went to Gallipoli and then France in 1916. Rikihana continued his diary until after the war.

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