Sir Robert Gillies has been laid to rest at Kauae Cemetery in Rotorua alongside his wife. Hundreds attended a service for the man who was the last remaining member of the Māori battalion, where his body rode on a gun carriage as he went past his marae for the final time. Waiata and kapa haka ran out across Te... read full story
"Very sad, but it was a time to think about everything that Sir Robert meant to us and to the army and to the entire defence force,"