Auckland Museum · Pou KanohiLetters from the front line
Survivors from the torpedoed transport ship Marquette being brought to Salonika.Mary Eleanor Gould Album, National Army Museum of New Zealand: 11931

War chronicle · 23 Oketopa · Aegean Sea

Kua 'kōhurutia' ngā nēhi o Niu Tīreni

Tekau ngā nehi i mate i te pahūtanga o te kaipuke o te Marquette – he aha te take kāore rātou i haere mā runga i te kaipuke hōhipera?

I te ata o te 23 o Oketopa, ka patua te kaipuke kawe hōia o HMT Marquette e te wakataua whakatakere o Tiamani i te Moana o Aegean. Ka rangona te pahū nui, ka tīhaea te hao o te kaipuke. I te 10 meneti noa, ka totohu te waka.

Kei runga i te kaipuke te Taua Hōhipera o Niu Tīreni, e 36 o rātou he nēhi. E 500 anō ngā hōia o Piritana. E 32 ngā tāngata o Niu Tīreni i mate – 10 o ērā he nēhi.

Ka tū ngā pihi o Niu Tīreni whānui i ēnei 'kōhurutanga'. Ka ara ake te wairua matakawa mō ngā Tiamana. Ka riri hoki te kāwantanga, engari, he take anō ā rātou. He kaipuke kawe hōia te Marquette, ka whāia aua tū waka e te hoariri. Hei tā te Minita Taua, tā James Allan, nō ngā mana o Piritana i Ihipa te hē, ko te kaipuke e āta mau ana i ngā tohu a te hōhipera kē te waka tika hei kawe i ngā nēhi.