Captain Mercer, about 1860

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Captain Mercer, about 1860

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Description

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 146-147.This extract was authored by Michael Fitzgerald. A plaque in Lisburn Cathedral, near Belfast in Northern Ireland, reads: ‘Sacred to the Memory . . . of / Captain Henry Mercer / Royal Artillery / Youngest son of Colonel Edward Smyth Mercer / Who fell in action / At Rangiriri, New Zealand / On the 20th Nov., 1868 [sic], while leading in f...

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Date created

circa 1900

Creator

William Francis Gordon

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https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/404851

Related subjects

men / Military uniforms / Moustaches / Captain Henry Mercer / copy prints / photographic prints / gelatin silver prints / portraits / New Zealand Wars / Military officers / War casualties / Waikato

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