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Memorial hospital, Hastings, 1928

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Memorial hospital, Hastings, 1928

There were few utilitarian First World War memorials because these were seen as an affront to the ideals for which the soldiers had died. A notable exception was the Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital in Hastings, shown here at its opening on Anzac Day (25 April) 1928.

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Reference: LH10 98_726

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Jock Phillips, Memorials and monuments – Memorials to the First World War, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/32536/memorial-hospital-hastings-1928 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 14 March 2012, updated 26 March 2015.