C Company
The Tairawhiti Museum is honoured to be working in partnership with the C. Company Trust Nga Taonga a Nga Tama Toa Trust to celebrate the men and memories of the C. Company, Maori (28) Battalion.
The Maori Battalion was organised on a tribal basis where the C. Company was comprised of men from an area between Torere in the Eastern Bay of Plenty to Paritu, located 40 kilometres south of Gisborne. Nearly one thousand men served with the C. Company, including Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery.
The Price of Citizenship is a moving tribute to the men who gave and risked their lives for the World War Two Allied war effort. A main component of this display is a wall of photographs displaying images of the C. Company soldiers. Around 90% of the named soldiers have accompanying photographs and it is hoped that one day this wall may be complete.
Exhibition - update
New Exhibitioned opened Saturday 27 March 2010
Dr Apirana Mahuika, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Tairawhiti Museum, welcomes the C Company veterans and C Company whanau to the re-opening of The Price of Citizenship.
The entrance to The Price of Citizenship includes an enlarged photogrpah of C Company soldiers performing a haka and acknowledgement of Sir Apirana Ngata as the 'father of the battalion'.
A book compiled by Monty Soutar covering the history of C.Company is now available. Nga Tama Toa is available here...
C Company/ANZAC Gallery Project
When the C Company exhibition The Price of Citizenship was closed in 2008 Tairawhiti Museum and Nga Taonga a Nga Tamataoa Trust agreed to launch a project to raise funds to build a new gallery to house the C Company exhibition. It was also agreed that an accompanying exhibition celebrating the contribution of all Tairawhiti military personnel who have served overseas would be part of this new gallery. Plans for the new gallery and the exhibitions to be housed therein are currently being developed.
C. Company exhibit 2008
C. Company exhibit 2008
C. Company exhibit 1996
C. Company exhibit 2000
C. Company exhibit Auckland Museum 1998
C. Company exhibit Te Kaha 1999
C. Company exhibit Ruakaka, Tolaga Bay 2002
C.Company in schools 2007
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