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Grapevine Spring 2026
Exercise Tauwharenīkau 2026: Building Combat Power in the Reserve Force
This edition of The Grapevine introduces a few new articles. The first – and most important – is a profile of our new Patron, Christopher Pugsley, one of New Zealand’s foremost military historians (and a former member of one of 2/4 RNZIR’s predecessor units).
Readers will also notice a photograph of what looks like a brand-new Charles Upham Centre building, although this is an artist’s impression of what a new facility could look like. As we noted in the previous edition, we have now moved all the books in the Polaschek collection to a more suitable room in a building in the Camp Community Centre which is also a more comfortable location for our volunteers to continue their work of cataloguing the whole collection.
On a more sombre note, we have introduced a new section titled ‘Last Post’, in which we will pay our respects to former members of our wider Army family in the South Island who have passed away. As the article notes, if any readers are aware of the deaths of former soldiers, please advise the Editors via the email address or through the Adjutant or Cadre NCOs.
