item details
NameLieutenant Rowan, 43rd Reg., about 1870-1873
ProductionWilliam Francis Gordon; copyist; circa 1900
John Mayall; photography studio; 1870-1873; London
John Mayall; photography studio; 1870-1873; London
Classificationcopy prints, photographic prints, gelatin silver prints, studio portraits
Materials Summarycopy photograph, gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 72mm (height), 48mm (length)
Registration NumberO.013490
Credit linePurchased 1916
Overview
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.