| | Title | Forgotten battalion rediscovered. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 18 April 2000; p. 9 | | Description | As Anzac Day approaches, the North Shore Times Advertiser looks at the little known history of the Maori Pioneer Battalion, whose members braved enemy fire during World War I without the resources to defend themselves. Ruma James Timo was one of them, but it seems no one remembers the former Mairangi Bay resident whose remains are buried at the old Albany Cemetery. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Maori battalion remembered. | | Source of Article | North Harbour News, 20 April 2000; p. 3 | | Description | Former Mairangi Bay resident Ruma Timo is buried at the old Albany Cemetery. Article on the 2227 battalion to which he belonged during World War I. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Old soldier's grave in caring hands. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 16 May 2000; p. 9 | | Description | Birkenhead resident Jo Waby cleans up Private Ruma Timo's grave in the Old Albany Cemetery. Ruma Timo was the subject of a previous article about a World War I soldier buried at the cemetery. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Someone thought of forgotten soldier. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 11 May 2000; p. 22 | | Description | Further small article about the grave of private Ruma Timo and asking for further information on him or the significance of the recent grave decorations. | | View full record |
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| | Title | Young volunteer died in vain. | | Source of Article | North Shore Times Advertiser, 30 September 1999; p. 9 | | Description | One of North Shore's Boer War soldiers remembered: Edward Monstedt, whose grave is in Albany Cemetery. | | View full record |
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