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Remembered Today:

Another Coloured Officer?


PhilB

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QUOTE (Phil_B @ Apr 11 2009, 07:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Were Maoris affected by the race rules?

Captain Natanahira Te Umutapu Parata in army uniform. Photograph taken in 1917.

As discussed before the contentious regulation referred to men on non pure European heritage, which applied equally to Jews and Maoris. The evidence is that both, and others, became officers in WWI.

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