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IN FOREIGN FIELDS – FULL DOCUMENTARY

Increasing numbers of New Zealanders are visiting the war grave cemeteries around the world. The director of a new documentary ‘In Foreign Fields’ (Maori Television, Anzac Day April 25, 10am and 6.30pm), John Keir explains how the Commonwealth War Grave cemeteries came into existence – and why Maori and some Pakeha question whether all our fallen should ‘forever lie in foreign fields’.

As the WW1 casualties mounted, New Zealand and other countries faced a huge practical problem – how to deal with the dead. The issue provoked a fiery political debate about who ‘owned’ the dead. Was it the families? Or the state?