Graeme Vercoe is the Registrar of the Māori Land Court Waikato- Maniapoto, Waiariki and Taiāwhiti Districts and a former Lieutenant Colonel in the NZ Army. He chairs the B Company History Trust which commissioned Ake Ake Kia Kaha E: B Company 28th Māori Battalion1939- 1945, written by Wira Gardiner.