Te riri kapuni

Ko te whakaputanga tuatahi o te matū kino ki te pae o te riri.

Ka uhia te Papa o Flanders e te kapuni. Ka wehi ngā hōia, ka rutu, ka taka. Ka pupuha i te korenga o te hau ora, ā, i ia kuhunga o te hā, ka werangia ngā pūkahukahu e te te hau kino. Ka taki oma ētahi ki te kimi putanga ora mā rātou. Ka wehi te katoa, nā wai, ka hinga te 2500 tāngata.

Kātahi anō ka ringihia te 1600 tana o te hau māoto e ngā Tiamana i te Pakanga Tuarua ki Ypres (22 Āperira–25 Mei 1915). Ko te wā tuatahi tēnei i tukuna te matū kino i te Pae o te Uru. Ka whati te aro-ā-kapa o te Ope Haumi. E 3km te nui o te whenua i riro i ngā Tiamana i ētahi rohe.

Ko te whakahoki a ngā Whenua Haumi he tuku i ā rātou ake matū kino. Ka ara ake tētahi whakataetae wehi. Ka tahuri ngā taha e rua ki te whakamarumaru i ō rātou hōia. Ko te hua matua ko te ārai kapuni i te tau 1916. Ahakoa, ko te kapuni tonu te rākau wehi o te Riri Tuatahi o te Ao.

Photos & objects

Smoke pots released to simulate a gas attack for training in Palestine.National Army Museum of New Zealand: 7588

Members of the 6th Australian Sanitary Section training in the ‘PH helmet’ gas mask, 1 May 1916.Australian War Memorial: C01316

Gas mask inspection of a Wellington Regiment, 15 April 1918.Henry Armytage Bradley Sanders, AWMM: PH-ALB-419-H593

NZ troops checking gas masks, 15 April 1918.Henry Armytage Bradley Sanders, AWMM: PH-ALB-419-H595

German gas mask, pre -1915.AWMM: W0026. © Auckland Museum CC BY