A booklet on the Cambridge Star Redoubt published in November 2024 is available as a free download because of the generosity of author and researcher, Robert J. (Bob) McQueen.

About the booklet

The booklet is a brief summary of what has been discovered about the Cambridge Star Redoubt, which was constructed in 1864, and was the start of the town of Cambridge in Waipā, New Zealand. A redoubt is a British military fortification common in the 1860s in New Zealand, consisting of earthworks with an outer ditch and an inner parapet, rectangular or square in shape, and range in size from 30 to 90 metre sides.

Visualisation of Star Redoubt. Source: Frank Tian

Download here>> The Cambridge Star Redoubt by Robert J. McQueen

About the author

Robert J. (Bob) McQueen is a retired Professor of Electronic Commerce at the University of Waikato. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School in Boston, USA, and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of Waikato.

He and his wife Anita emigrated from Canada to New Zealand in 1988 after a previous one year working holiday here in 1985. He has been a landowner at Te Miro, just outside Cambridge, NZ, since the purchase in 1992 of a 35-acre lifestyle block, which was run by him for many years as a small registered Hereford stud. They have lived in Te Miro since 1996, in a 1907 era villa house that they moved on to that property from Morrinsville. They have three adult children, and nine grandchildren.