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Camp of the Flying Column, Wairoa District  [Lt Col Arthur Morrow (B.1842,D.1937)] In September 1863 Maori raiding parties resentful of settler intrusion on their land turned their attention to the scattered settlements on the lower part of the Wairoa River. They pillaged the houses of outlying farmers who had gone into the stockade opposite Galloway Redoubt or into Papakura, lying in wait at the edge of the bush to cut off settlers who might return to their farms. To relieve the garrison doing duty on the Redoubt, detachments of Auckland Rifle Volunteers were sent down the Wairoa in the armed steamer " Sandfly ". The Volunteers had already served at Otahuhu and Drury and as part of a Flying Column on an expedition with the 70th Regiment, Pitt's Militia, encamped near St John's Redoubt, Papatoetoe and the Hunua hills on the west side of the Wairoa River. It is this encampment which is represented in the watercolour by Lieut. Colonel Morrow. He had trained for the Royal Marines and arrived in Auckland with his father in 1861, Later he was to become Colonel of the Volunteers in the Waikato Wars following General Cameron's advance south. Morrow also worked as a draughtsman in Auckland and in the Government Survey Office. His skills as a draughtsman are clear from the minutely detailed large scale pencil drawings he made. In 1904 he exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts. In later life he lived at Buckland's Beach.
Camp of the Flying Column, Wairoa District

  MUNRO, ROBERT WILLIAM Trooper 13/106 19/05/1915
  JONES, RICHARD ROLAND Trooper 13/79 27/08/1915
  WATERS, MERVYN LEIGH Serjeant 13/1106 04/08/1916
  ATKINS, THOMAS FREDERICK Rifleman 25/482 15/09/1916
  MOHR, KEITH Corporal 13/3185 26/03/1918
WILLIAMS, W H Cadet ("Aparima") 19/11/1917
 
  HIRST, RAYMOND JOHN Sergeant NZ404067 11/07/1942
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