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John Mayall; photography studio; 1870-1873; London
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This extract originally appeared in Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2024) on pages 256-257.
This extract was authored by Caitlyn Lynch.
Nineteen-year-old Frederick Rowan arrived in New Zealand in December 1864, joining the 43rd Regiment as it returned from the Tauranga campaign to fight the ‘Hauhau threat’ in the Second Taranaki War, 1865–66. Rather than leave New Zealand with his regiment in 1866, Rowan stayed on in Taranaki, joining the settler militia. When news came of rising trouble in the south, Rowan led a group of 26 Taranaki Rifle Volunteers down to Camp Waihī.