Waikumete Cemetery
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Waikumete Cemetery, originally Waikomiti Cemetery, is New Zealand's largest cemetery. It occupies a site of 108 hectares in Glen Eden, Auckland, and also contains a crematorium in the south-west corne
Waikumete Cemetery in May 2022
Drawings of Waikumete Cemetery in 1892
The Auckland Provincial Memorial
Chapel of Faith in the Oaks
Spanish flu
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The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the misleading name Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the in
Waikumete Cemetery
…Anglican churches were built in Glen Eden in 1910 and 1926 respectively. The cemetery was used to bury bodies coming from the city of Auckland during the 1918 flu pandemic. Glen Eden residents themselves were mostly unaffected by the flu. An alarm would sound at the train station when the bodies were brought by train from…
Soldiers sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, Kansas
El Sol (Madrid), 28 May 1918: "The three-day fever – In Madrid 80,000 Are Infected – H.M. the King is sick"
Advertisement in The Times, 28 June 1918 for Formamint tablets to prevent "Spanish influenza"
Front page of The Times (London), 25 June 1918: "The Spanish Influenza"