Free time for first finished (Correct)! Girls vs Boys challenge
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1. How many companies were there in the 28th Māori Battalion? 2. How many members of the Battalion were killed in action or died while on active service? 3. When did the 28th Māori Battalion first assemble (come together)? 4. Who was the first commander of the 28th Māori Battalion? 5. When did the first 28th Māori Battalion troops leave New Zealand? 6. Why were Māori soldiers initially denied shore leave when in South Africa? 7. Which Battalion Company was nicknamed ‘Ngāti Walkabout’? 8. Where were the first members of the Battalion killed in combat? 9. Where was 42nd Street, the scene of a particularly famous action on the part of the Battalion? 10. How many Māori Battalion soldiers were killed in Greece and Crete? 11. Who was the first Māori commander of the Battalion? 12. Which C Company officer won a Victoria Cross for his actions at Tebaga Gap, Tunisia? 13. Where did A and B Companies have 128 out of 200 men killed, wounded or captured in February 1944? 14. Where did the European war end for the 28th Māori Battalion? 15. On which ship did the bulk of the Battalion return to New Zealand? 16. What was the name of the Battalion’s mobile canteen? 17. What is the name of the Māori God of War? 18. Who published a bilingual booklet entitled The Price of Citizenship? 19. When did the 28th Māori Battalion return home? 20.Who told returning members of the Battalion: ‘Go back to our mountains, go back to our people, go back to our marae. But this is my last command to you all - stand as Maori, stand as Maori, stand as Maori’? |
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