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    Waiouru is a small town in the Ruapehu District, in New Zealand's Manawatū-Whanganui region. It is located on the south-eastern North Island Volcanic...
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    Waiouru Military Camp is a camp of the New Zealand Army in the central North Island of New Zealand near Waiouru. All New Zealand Army soldiers complete...
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  • State Highway One, on the southern side of the small military town of Waiouru. The 1300 square metre museum is fortress-looking in design, complete with...
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    accident, rescue teams departed from Waiouru 8 km (5 mi) east of Tangiwai. These included soldiers from Waiouru Army Camp, radio operators from Irirangi...
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  • HMNZS Tamaki, Motuihe Island Papakura Military Camp, Auckland. Waiouru Military Camp, Waiouru. Linton Military Camp, Palmerston North. Trentham Military Camp...
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    Waiouru railway station in Waiouru, New Zealand was an intermediate station on the North Island Main Trunk line. It was opened for goods traffic in March...
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    locked, reinforced glass cabinets at the QEII Army Memorial Museum in Waiouru, New Zealand, with a value of around NZD$20 million. Charles Upham's VC...
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    Centre at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds in the United Kingdom; the Waiouru Army Museum and the Auckland War Memorial museum in New Zealand; and the...
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    to the unproductive nature of the extreme winter climate. The town of Waiouru, with its army camp, lies to the south and much of the southern part of...
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  • allowed the RNZAF's Skyhawks to use more advanced weaponry, such as the AGM-65 Maverick missile being launched here over Waiouru training ground, 1989...
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    of the district. Waiouru, with an elevation of 815 metres, is in the extreme south-east of the district and houses the large Waiouru Army Camp. The southern...
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    Nairnville in Khandallah near Wellington, and from 1943 HMNZS Irirangi at Waiouru. Transmissions were sent to the Far East Combined Bureau via the Navy Office...
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    enough to have a store and a school. It was 12.55 km (7.80 mi) south of Waiouru and 3.05 km (1.90 mi) north of Turangarere. Hīhītahi is at the top of a...
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    Gunners fire a L119 Light Gun in exercise at Waiouru, 2010...
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    Archived 17 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine "The Russian SBML 18-pr at Waiouru" Archived 5 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Royal New Zealand Artillery...
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    Battalion of Singapore Artillery at the artillery range of Waiouru Army Camp, near Waiouru in New Zealand. This resulted in the deaths of two full-time...
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    national museum for the Army, the QEII Army Memorial Museum, was built at Waiouru, the Army's main training base in the central North Island. After the 1983...
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    Ōhura (130) Ōwhango (190) Raurimu (70) National Park (240) Rangataua (160) Waiouru (890) Kai Iwi (160) Rātana Pā (380) Koitiata (130) Hunterville (430) Mangaweka...
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    rifles were delivered in May 2017, and soldiers began training with them at Waiouru Military Camp on 15 June 2017. In September 2018, it was reported that...
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  • Eltham, Stratford 762, 764, 765 Taihape Taihape, Mangaweka 382, 388 Waiouru Waiouru 387 Waipukurau 855, 856, 857, 858 Wairoa 837, 838 Whanganui Whanganui...
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  • Plymouth and educated at New Plymouth Boys' High School. Based out of Waiouru Military Camp, Johns played centre on the Wanganui-King Country side which...
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  • 47 – Feilding, Marton, Taihape 48 – Ashhurst, Bulls, Foxton, Shannon, Waiouru 49 – Dannevirke, Pahiatua, Woodville 50 – Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, Kapiti...
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  • that the fuzes procured by its contractor met military specifications. Waiouru Army Camp, New Zealand Captain (CPT) Teddy Quah Kok Meng 11 December 1999...
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    78806; 175.50972 Lake Moawhango Ruapehu District Hydroelectric lake in Waiouru military area 39°23′30″S 175°45′00″E / 39.39167°S 175.75000°E / -39...
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    edge) became the focal point for travellers going between Wanganui and Waiouru. A thriving town emerged to serve the timber workers and those passing...
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    preserved and have been handed over to the museum. The other two went to the Waiouru training ground as hard range targets. Socialist Republic of Romania: Defector...
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    Otorohanga District, Waitomo District, Ruapehu District excluding Waimarino-Waiouru ward. 419,890 Wairarapa Wairarapa DHB www.wairarapa.dhb.org.nz Masterton...
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    operationally fields the guns. Overloon War Museum. National Army Museum, Waiouru. Royal Artillery Museum. Shropshire Regiment Museum, Shrewsbury Castle...
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    sacred. The park includes many towns around its boundary including Ohakune, Waiouru, Horopito, Pokaka, Erua, National Park Village, Whakapapa skifield and...
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    agreed to a permanent loan of the medals to the National Army Museum at Waiouru. On 2 December 2007, Upham's VC was among nine stolen from locked, reinforced...
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