Alamein War Memorial

Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. Bennett, a former commander of the Maori battalion, was the Maori representative in the New Zealand contingent which attended the unveiling of the Alamein memorial in North Africa to those who lost their lives in the Middle East in the last war and have no known graves.

After the service Colonel Bennett presented to the Imperial War Graves Commission a carved box as a token of the Maoris' appreciation of the Commission's care of graves of their people in the two world wars.

There are nearly 100 Maoris buried at Alamein, among them Lieutenant-Colonel E. T. W. Love, who was the first Maori to command the Maori battalion.

The names of a further 50 Maoris who have no known graves are inscribed on the memorial panel.