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Great War Stories 4 - Falaoa Tosene
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2017
A hundred and fifty men were volunteered and nobody really thought the offer of troops would be taken up.– Historian Margaret Pointer, who wrote a book about Niue's WWI involvement
I had received a letter from a lady, the official visitor to the New Zealand soldiers, telling me of a Niuean in hospital at Chelsea, very lonely as he could not speak English.– A letter from former missionary Sarah Lawes
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