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Jean Guerren NZ Wars memorial:
Commemorates French miller Jean Guerren, who died defending the Te Poronu flour mill on 11 March 1869.
The other stone of the pair is at the Ngāti Awa's Wairaka Marae.
Signboard
says:
Erected to the memory of a gallant son of France
Jean Guerren
who died March 11th 1869 heroically defending the Te Poronu Mill
on this site, against the rebel forces under Peka Makarini, Lieutenant of the Maori insurgent leader, Te Kooti
Erected by Y Squadron Legion of Frontiersmen
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