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<p>From an interview between Tautini Glover (<a href="/node/1279" title="See his record">Tautini Moana Karawa</a>, 802006) and Megan Hutching.  </p><p>Tini Glover describes the scene at a key point on the route to Cassino, Italy.</p>

<div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><p>Tautini (Tini) Glover , Te Aitanga a Hauiti, born 1923, interviewed by Megan Hutching, 16 August 2003, for the <em>Second World War oral history project - Italy</em></p>

<p>From the collections of the Alexander
Turnbull Library Oral History and Sound collection, OHInt-0748-02.   All rights reserved. Permission of the <a href="http://www.mch.govt.nz/">Ministry for Culture and Heritage</a>
must be obtained before any re-use of this sound file </p><p>Image: Tautini Glover </p></div></div>

<p>Interview between <a href="/node/555" title="See Patira Edwards' record">Patira Edwards</a> (25844) and Megan Hutching.</p>
<p>Patira Edwards describes the trip out from New Zealand. Patira sailed for Egypt with the 4th Reinforcements on the Polish liner-turned-troop ship <em>Batory</em> in November 1940.</p>

<p>Patira Edwards, Ngāpuhi (1919-2005), interviewed by Megan Hutching, 27 November 2000, for the <em>Second World War oral history project - Crete</em></p>

<p>From the collections of the Alexander
Turnbull Library Oral History and Sound collection, OHInt-0729-08.   All rights reserved. Permission of the <a href="http://www.mch.govt.nz/">Ministry for Culture and Heritage</a>
must be obtained before any re-use of this sound file </p>
<p>Image: Patira Edwards. </p>

<p>Interview between <a href="/node/555" title="See Patira Edwards' record">Patira Edwards</a> (25844) and Megan Hutching.</p><p>Patira Edwards describes life at Maadi Camp before joining the Battalion. Patira had sailed for Egypt with the 4th Reinforcements on the Polish liner-turned-troop ship <em>Batory</em> in November 1940.</p>

<p>Patira Edwards, Ngāpuhi (1919-2005), interviewed by Megan Hutching, 27 November 2000, for the <em>Second World War oral history project - Crete</em></p>

<p>From the collections of the Alexander
Turnbull Library Oral History and Sound collection, OHInt-0729-08. All rights reserved. Permission of the <a href="http://www.mch.govt.nz/">Ministry for Culture and Heritage</a>
must be obtained before any re-use of this sound file </p>
<p>Image: Patira Edwards. </p>

<p>From an interview between Tautini Glover (<a href="/node/1279" title="See his record">Tautini Moana Karawa</a>, 802006) and Megan Hutching.  </p><p>Tini Glover describes arriving with the Battalion at Taranto in Southern Italy in 1943. </p>

<p>Tautini (Tini) Glover , Te Aitanga a Hauiti, born 1923, interviewed by Megan Hutching, 16 August 2003, for the <em>Second World War oral history project - Italy</em></p>

<p>From the collections of the Alexander
Turnbull Library Oral History and Sound collection, OHInt-0748-02.   All rights reserved. Permission of the <a href="http://www.mch.govt.nz/">Ministry for Culture and Heritage</a>
must be obtained before any re-use of this sound file </p><p>Image: Tautini Glover </p>

<p>Padre Wiremu Te Tau Hūata (Ngāti Kahungunu, Waikato) makes introductory comments in Māori about the Battalion and then introduces the Battalion's Commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Monty Fairbrother, who makes a situation report. The himene <em>Au, e Ihu</em> (O Lord look down upon me) is followed by the blessing. Recorded in Taranto, Italy, November 1943.</p>

<p>Track one from <em>Ake, Ake Kia Kaha E! Songs of the 28 (Māori) Battalion</em></p>
<p><strong>Sound file</strong> from <a href="https://www.ngataonga.org.nz">Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision</a>. Any re-use of this audio is a breach of copyright.</p>

<p>Interview between <a href="/node/555" title="See Patira Edwards' record">Patira Edwards</a> (25844) and Megan Hutching about an incident during the Battle for Crete. </p><h2>Transcript (edited)</h2><p>We took off into the hills, into the mountains. The first village that we came to, the Cretan people were running out and [they asked us] did we want anything to eat? They gave us Greek bread, and they were milking goats to give us milk. There was wine there if we wanted it. We thought we'd lay off the wine, but we had the rest. That's when they told us that the Germans had gone through that morning and taken all the food from the people. It was just what they had hidden that they had there [for us].</p><p>We stayed there quite a while until they gave us a guide to guide us to the next little village in the mountains. They said that that was the only way we were going to get out – these guides would take us from one area to another. That's how we got through. </p>

<p>Patira Edwards, Ngāpuhi (1919-2005), interviewed by Megan Hutching, 27 November 2000, for the <em>Second World War oral history project - Crete</em></p>

<p>From the collections of the Alexander
Turnbull Library Oral History and Sound collection, OHInt-0729-08. All rights reserved. Permission of the <a href="http://www.mch.govt.nz/">Ministry for Culture and Heritage</a>
must be obtained before any re-use of this sound file </p>
<p>Image: Patira Edwards. </p>

<p>Tini Glover (<a href="/node/1279" title="See his record">Tautini Moana Karawa</a>, 802006) describes how Māori soldiers screamed when going into battle. From an interview with Megan Hutching.</p><h2>Transcript</h2><p>But we were all frightened. I tell you what, I never heard a haka. Somebody asked me, 'Did you haka when you went into action?' I said, 'Not haka really.' But we screamed. We screamed like devils and I think that was our inheritance coming out. The old people. As soon as we went in and saw a German, we started yelling. It's a queer scream, a high scream. We screamed at the top of our voices. And some Germans got paralysed behind their guns. I've seen them, many a time, attacking and the joker behind the gun, with that scream, it put him off. He'd got his hands up. 'Ka mate, ka mate', we had no time for that; but that scream, it seemed to help us. </p>

<p>Tautini (Tini) Glover , Te Aitanga a Hauiti, born 1923, interviewed by Megan Hutching, 16 August 2003, for the <em>Second World War oral history project - Italy</em></p>

<p>From the collections of the Alexander
Turnbull Library Oral History and Sound collection, OHInt-0748-02.   All rights reserved. Permission of the <a href="http://www.mch.govt.nz/">Ministry for Culture and Heritage</a>
must be obtained before any re-use of this sound file. </p> <p>Image: Tautini Glover. </p>

<p>Interview between Tautini Glover (<a href="/node/1279" title="See his record">Tautini Moana Karawa</a>, 802006) and Megan Hutching. </p><h2>Transcript (edited)</h2><p>We went beyond there. Nepia Mahuika was our officer. We went into a grove of trees for the night, and in the morning he told us to go across this slope. We were halfway across and he said, 'Get back! Get back into the copse of trees.' As soon as we got back, down came the screaming meemees, six-barrel mortars, and peppered the whole area. We would have all died except for Nepia. I said to him, 'Nep, why did you send us back?' He said, 'Well, I thought about getting the cows in, in Ruatoria. When I go to get the cows, early in the morning, the birds are singing, and they've got their wings down, drying themselves on the top of the trees in the sun. I didn't hear a bird.' Now, that's from the old people. That's an inheritance, in my opinion. Bushcraft is there. He was a good man. </p>

<p>Tautini (Tini) Glover , Te Aitanga a Hauiti, born 1923, interviewed by Megan Hutching, 16 August 2003, for the <em>Second World War oral history project - Italy</em></p>

<p>From the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library Oral History and Sound collection, OHInt-0748-02.   All rights reserved. Permission of the <a href="http://www.mch.govt.nz/">Ministry for Culture and Heritage</a>
must be obtained before any re-use of this sound file </p><p>Image: Tautini Glover. </p>