Mr Alan (‘Ace’) Wood The first Regimental Sergeant Major of the 28th Maori Battalion, Second N.Z.E.F., Mr Alan (‘Ace’) Wood, D.C.M., has died in Nelson. With Brigadier G. Dittmer, a former commanding officer of the Battalion, he was responsible for the discipline of the Battalion, which was of an outstandingly high standard. Aged 47, he was one of eight Europeans with the original battalion. Mr Wood was seriously wounded in the El Alamein campaign at the time Lieut-Col T. Love was killed. Mr Wood was invalided home as a captain at the end of 1942. He was in Rotorua for the reunion of the Maori Battalion in 1961. The president of 28 Maori Battalion, New Zealand Association, Mr K. Waaka of Rotorua, accompanied by Messrs E. Kingi and C. Welsh, Rotorua, each a member of the original battalion, flew to Nelson for the funeral.
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Te Ao Hou, June 1964, Page 62
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