tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64314864299653400972024-03-14T23:55:25.971+13:00100 NZ World War One Memorials 1914-2014My goal is to personally visit and collate information from 100 New Zealand World War One memorials throughout New Zealand to commemorate the Centenary of World War One and to remember those who paid the ultimate price.Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.comBlogger502125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-3537418771974053882015-10-04T14:19:00.002+13:002015-10-04T14:19:43.380+13:00William Haigh Seaton - Devonport Memorial, Auckland<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Battle of Broodseinde on 4 October 1917 was a comprehensive victory for the allies. The New Zealand division was given the task of capturing the Gravenstafel Spur on the Broodseinde Ridge. They fulfilled their task admirably but at a cost. At the completion of the battle the New Zealanders had 1,700 casualties including 350 deaths. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">William Haigh Seaton was born in Grimsby, England the eldest son of Kemp and Jane Seaton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He had emigrated to New Zealand with his parents and brother James in 1912. The family set up home in Devonport and at the outbreak of war William was employed as an engineer working for the Union Company in Auckland. William enlisted in November 1915 and embarked with the Auckland Infantry Battalion on 4 March 1916. He marched into camp at Etaples, France on 24 April 1916. At the end of July 1917 he was granted 10 days leave to the UK. By this time his younger brother James had enlisted and embarked from Auckland earlier during the month of July. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sadly the two brothers were not reunited in the UK as James disembarked in Plymouth on 24 September 1917 and William by then was already back at the Front. Tragically William was killed in action </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">on 4 October 1917 at the Battle of Broodseinde. He was 27 years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">James finally marched into camp at Etaples on 28 October 1917, this must have been a difficult time for him knowing that only weeks earlier his brother had been killed in action. Even harder would have been the fact that William's body was never recovered so James had no grave to visit. </span></div>
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-20612390345542581372015-06-01T10:39:00.000+12:002015-06-01T10:39:20.737+12:00"She faced them gentle and bold" - Nurse Edith Cavell<h1 itemprop="itemreviewed" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">She was binding the wounds of her enemies when they came— <br />
The lint in her hand unrolled. <br />
They battered the door with their rifle-butts, crashed it in: <br />
She faced them gentle and bold. <br />
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They haled her before the judges where they sat <br />
In their places, helmet on head. <br />
With question and menace the judges assailed her, “Yes, <br />
I have broken your law,” she said. <br />
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“I have tended the hurt and hidden the hunted, have done <br />
As a sister does to a brother, <br />
Because of a law that is greater than that you have made, <br />
Because I could do none other. <br />
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“Deal as you will with me. This is my choice to the end, <br />
To live in the life I vowed.” <br />
“She is self-confessed,” they cried; “she is self-condemned. <br />
She shall die, that the rest may be cowed.” <br />
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In the terrible hour of the dawn, when the veins are cold, <br />
They led her forth to the wall. <br />
“I have loved my land,” she said, “but it is not enough: <br />
Love requires of me all. <br />
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“I will empty my heart of the bitterness, hating none.” <br />
And sweetness filled her brave <br />
With a vision of understanding beyond the hour <br />
That knelled to the waiting grave. <br />
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They bound her eyes, but she stood as if she shone. <br />
The rifles it was that shook <br />
When the hoarse command rang out. They could not endure <br />
That last, that defenceless look. <br />
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And the officer strode and pistolled her surely, ashamed <br />
That men, seasoned in blood, <br />
Should quail at a woman, only a woman,— <br />
As a flower stamped in the mud. </span></div>
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casualties of the First World War – Nurse Edith Cavell – on a new coin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Edith Cavell was a British nurse who was executed in 1915 for helping
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the coin are words from the poem above by Laurence Binyon called 'Edith Cavell' <i>"she faced them gentle and bold" </i> I have not reproduced the whole poem and the link below will take you to a copy of the full version. Laurence Binyon is well known for his First World War poem 'For the Fallen'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The highlight of the exhibition for me was the colourisation of World War One photographs which shone a new light on many images that I had seen before, making the war itself all the more vivid 100 years later.</span></div>
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Pukeahu National War Memorial Park<br />
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-77411817007976915532015-05-31T14:37:00.003+12:002015-05-31T14:37:34.997+12:00Poignant WWI Photos to See Light of Day Online<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The<i> </i>National Army Museum has received a grant which will enable it to digitise most of their WW1 photographs, this is great news for researchers (like myself). </span></span></div>
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-39615343305430129882015-05-27T12:07:00.000+12:002015-05-31T15:29:50.290+12:00Cyril Patrick Melbourne Jackson - Picton Memorial<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The handsome man in the photo above is that of Cyril Jackson, the second son of George and Martha Jackson of Picton. In his days in Picton Cyril had been a valued member of the local cricket club and a member of the Holy Trinity church choir. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At the outbreak of war Cyril was employed by the New Zealand Railways as a clerk at Waihi station in Coromandel. He enlisted on 20 October 1915 at Waihi and embarked with the 10th reinforcements attached to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade on 4 March 1916.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cyril was promoted to Company Sergeant Major on 11 July 1916 at Sling Camp, England. His posting to the Western Front was delayed as he contracted Mumps early in March 1917 and was admitted to hospital in Glasgow for treatment. By the begining of April he had recovered and was marched back into Sling camp and on to Codford camp where he was transferred to the 3rd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He arrived in France in May 1917. However his tour of duty on the front was short. Cyril was wounded in action at Passchendaele most likely on 4 October 1917 at the Battle of Broodseinde and died of his wounds the next day. He was buried at the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3, Vlamertinge, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The news of Cyril's death back in New Zealand added to the grief that his family were already suffering, this due to the death of Cyril's father in June of the same year.</span></div>
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-19789259960960648702015-04-07T09:44:00.001+12:002015-04-07T09:44:18.961+12:00Great War soldiers leave poignant memorial in French quarry - NZ Herald<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is an amazing find what a great memorial to those who fought in WW1</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Robert William Leaf known as "Willie" was the eldest of 5 boys and 1 girl. Born and raised in Matakohe his father had been one of the pioneering 'Albertlanders', the name given to a thousand immigrants who arrived at Port Albert in the Kaipara harbour in 1862. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Prior to enlisting Willie had been sheep farming with his younger brother Toin in the Kaipara region and together they enlisted at the beginning of October 1916, embarking from Wellington on 2 April 1917.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They marched alongside each other into Sling camp, England, Etaples camp, France and then on 25 July 1917 joined the 2nd Battalion of the Auckland Infantry Regiment at Messines. Less than a week later the brothers were separated by death, when Willie was killed in action on 1 August 1917. Months later on 27 March 1918 Toin was seriously wounded, receiving injuries to his face and right arm. He ultimately lost an eye and was invalided back to New Zealand a few days before the Armistice was declared.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Willie's body was never recovered and he is remembered on the Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium. His family back in New Zealand struggled with the fact that Willie had no known grave. A line from a memorial poem placed regularly by the family on the anniversary of his death in the years following the war, shows the depth of their feeling and grief. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "<i>But the unknown grave is the bitterest blow" </i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They also placed notices in the New Zealand Herald asking returned servicemen for any information on Willie's death in the hope that his body would be located and given a proper burial.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Back in New Zealand Toin's suffered poor health as a result of the injuries he suffered in the war. He died in 1929 of pulmonary tuberculosis.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 154, 2 July 1929, Page 5</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A further brother Alfred also served in World War One enlisting on 9 March 1917 and embarking on the 'Ulimaroa' on 26 July 1917, only days before his brother was killed in action. Before departing he married Phyllis Grice on 19 June 1917. Alfred survived the war but not unscathed. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is a note on his Cenotaph database record stating he returned to New Zealand with a nervous disorder caused by a train accident. After looking at Alfred's service record I concluded the accident he was involved in was the Bere Ferrers train accident which took place on 24 September 1917. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A train carrying disembarked New Zealand troops from the 'Ulimaroa' and 'Norman' was on route from Plymouth to Sling camp on the Salisbury Plain. The train stopped for signals at Bere Ferrers in Devon, when troops mistakenly got off the train thinking they had reached their refreshment stop in Exeter. The soldiers were hit by an oncoming express train as they alighted from the wrong side of the train.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ten New Zealand soldiers were killed as a result of the accident</span>.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>"...it was the custom of the Maori to enter the firing line in the early teens. Many a man of the old generation went on his first war trail at the age of twelve."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How old Edward actually was is open to debate, I could not find any official entry of his birth and on his Commonwealth Grave Commission record it states he was 19 years old when he died of his wounds in December 1917. Before embarking Richard the eldest of the three brothers would most likely have promised his parents William and Mary Angel, that he would watch out for his younger brothers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On 6 August 1915 at the Battle of Sari Bair, William was wounded and subsequently medically evacuated back to Malta and from there to England. In February 1916, he returned to New Zealand minus a finger and with a bullet wound to the leg. He was medically discharged on 10 May 1916. In his service record I found evidence that he attempted to re-enlist at the beginning of June of the same year, however I could find no evidence that he was accepted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Angel brothers may well have been together when Richard led a section out to clear barbed wire entanglements from Chailak Dere, before the main attack on 6 August 1915. When the battle was over Richard was promoted to Corporal and awarded the Military Medal for bravery as a result of his actions, his citation reads:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />After the evacuation of Gallipoli Edward and Richard embarked for France at the beginning of April 1916. In July 1916 Edward was admitted to hospital suffering from debility, today debility would be known as chronic fatigue syndrome. Edward was at the most only 17/18 years of age and had been exposed to all the horrors of war while still a boy, witnessing more death than life. This must have had a profound negative effect on his physical and mental health. Yet less than a month after hospitalisation he was back at the front until he contracted mumps in May 1917. After recovering he returned to the front again and spent a short spell at the casualty clearing station with influenza, before going on leave on 18 July 1917.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Edward returned from leave at the end of July and was promoted to Lance Corporal on 8 December 1917. Shortly after his third Christmas as a soldier away from his home and family in New Zealand he was fatally wounded on 28 December 1917. He was buried at Ramparts Cemetery. Lille Gate, Ieper, Belgium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16760, 29 January 1918, Page 5 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I came across the Matakohe war memorial by chance on a drive back from the Far North last year. The memorial is well place on a hill overlooking the land beyond, on which many of those inscribed on the memorial would have farmed on before enlisting and embarking for war.</span></div>
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-33368972845251745702015-02-10T11:50:00.002+13:002015-02-10T11:52:28.936+13:00New look Cenotaph Database<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">I love the new look of the Cenotaph database from Auckland Museum. Congratulations to all involved. I especially like how we can all contribute to the site. Take a look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Harry McKillop and his brother Gordon were both young boys when orphaned in 1902. Their father Arthur, was killed as a result of a railway accident at Mt Eden in February 1900 and their mother Annie dropped dead on the street, most likely from a heart attack in 1902. The boys were then taken into the care of their maternal grandmother and raised at 27 Virginia Avenue, Mt Eden. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After finishing school they sought careers at sea. Gordon with Huddard, Parker & Co. and Harry with Union Steamship Company. When war broke out they were keen to enlist despite their young ages.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Harry (the eldest of the two) enlisted first in February 1915 aged 19. Embarking with the Auckland Infantry Battalion on 13 June 1915. At Gallipoli he was invalided to hospital in Malta with exhaustion in reality he was most likely suffering shell shock/shell concussion. His recovery was slow and he was sent to England in September 1915 where he spent time at Bethnal Green Hospital. </span></span><br />
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-91516175631331525372015-02-03T13:11:00.002+13:002015-02-03T13:11:34.221+13:00Bert & Syd Rinaldi - Waiau Memorial, Canterbury<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After enjoying leave in the UK from 10 September 1917 Lionel rejoined his unit in the field on 24 September 1917. He then saw action at Passchendaele where on 12 October 1917 he was severely wounded by machine gun fire in the left shoulder. Invalided back to the UK the shoulder proved slow to heal and he was transferred from hospital to a convalescent home in Brighton, Sussex. Eventually he was given 3 months sick leave and sent back to New Zealand in April 1918. In New Zealand Lionel's health deteriorated due to him contracting TB. At his own request he was admitted to the Mona House private hospital on Carlton Gore Road in Auckland. On 12 March 1919 at the age of 33, Lionel died at Mona House. His body was returned to Raetihi where he was buried in the cemetery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lance Corporal Charles Beeson was the son of George and Joanna Beeson, he was born and educated at Waiorongomai in the Bay of Plenty on completion of his schooling he became a teacher and prior to enlisting in May 1916 he was teaching in Matamata where by all accounts he was well respected. His father passed away in 1909 and his mother lived at 81 Clonbern Road, Remuera at the time of Charles's enlistment. He was one of four of nine sons who served in World War One.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Charles embarked with the 8th reinforcements as part of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade on 23 September 1916 aboard the Pakeha. Charles came close to surviving the war but was sadly killed in action on 8 September 1918 at Havrincourt, France most likely from machine gun fire or a sniper. He was buried at Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery, France.</span></div>
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-11459584758034874542015-01-23T12:32:00.001+13:002015-01-23T12:32:21.310+13:00Costar Brothers - Papakura Memorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Like the dawn of a beautiful day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">The poem above was inserted in the New Zealand Herald on 9 December 1918 in memory of the Costar brothers by their family on the one year anniversary of the death of Walter Costar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Reginald (known as Reg) and Walter (known as Wally or Walt) Costar were the sons of Matoaka and Sarah Costar farmers in Karaka. Their father arrived in New Zealand in 1865, he was born on the journey from London aboard the Matoaka somewhere in the Atlantic hence his parents named him Matoaka Atlantic Costar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Second Lieutenant Gordon Gerald Harper was born in Christchurch the </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">sixth son of George and Agnes Harper of Christchurch. The Harper family were a well known Canterbury family and a deeply religious one - Gordon's grandfather Right Rev Henry J.C. Harper had been the</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> first Anglican Bishop of Canterbury (Agnes Harper Gordon's mother was a Roman Catholic and the children were baptised Catholic). When Gordon enlisted with his brother Robert, known as Robin, in August 1914 they had been a sheep farmers in Waiau, North Canterbury. Gordon had recently been selected to be the Reform Party candidate for Riccarton however he withdrew his candidacy before embarking. </span></span><br />
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30th August, 1915, at Kaiajik Aghala (Dardanelles), when in charge of
machine guns. He invariably displayed great bravery and devotion to
duty. L.G. 11 March 1916, p2746.</span></span></i><br />
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in General I. Hamilton's dispatch dated 11 December 1915. L.G. 28
January 1916, p1210.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a letter printed in Glyn Harper's book 'Letters from Gallipoli' Gordon writes to his mother of his concern at leaving his brother Robin behind in Gallipoli:</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A great fight was put up by the machine guns. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lieut. Gordon Harper</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">,
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difficulty by his famous brother, Captain Robert Harper, O.C. Machine Gun Squadron.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"he was more than a brother if that's possible... the last 2 years... we have fought side by side all the time"</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Robin and I are safe and sound so far, thanks I am sure to the continued prayers sent up for us by you and so many at home..."</i></span></span><br />
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-79151717826810604272014-10-28T07:41:00.001+13:002014-10-28T07:41:39.261+13:00War News - 28 October 1914<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-2912390733009149362014-10-23T08:41:00.000+13:002014-10-23T08:44:54.511+13:00Sapper Edgar Boucher - Remuera Memorial<div style="text-align: center;">
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-74209001450186071642014-10-21T14:23:00.000+13:002014-10-21T14:23:25.127+13:00Lieutenant William Archibald Buchanan - Remuera memorial, Auckland<br />
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Helen Vailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16129679953598828045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6431486429965340097.post-69172028947592944082014-10-16T08:43:00.000+13:002014-10-16T08:44:23.138+13:00Main Body sails 16 October 1914 - 100 years ago today.<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hugh Graham Pringle - 11/116</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Embarked 16 October 1914, Wellington Mounted Rifles</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Killed in Action at Gallipoli, 9 August 1915, aged 26</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remembered on </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Frank Jennings Rule - 10/502</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Embarked 16 October 1914, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wellington Infantry Battalion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Died of wounds received at Gallipoli, 26 May 1915 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Buried at </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Charles Bruce Stuart-Menteath -10/1082 </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Embarked 16 October 1914, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wellington Infantry Battalion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Killed in action between </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">6 May 1915 - 10 May 1915, Gallipoli</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aged 23</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remembered on </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Twelve Tree Copse (New Zealand) Memorial, Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Helles, Turkey</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Augustus Alfred Tegner - 11/154</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Embarked 16 October 1914, Wellington Mounted Rifles</span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Died on service, suicide, 6 March 1918, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mesopotamia</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Buried at </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Waziriah Area of the Al-Russafa district, Baghdad, Iraq</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" class="recordImg" src="http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/image/Twisleton-Francis-Darbyshire-World-War-I-1914-1918-57467-618660.jpg?240x600" /> </span></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Francis Darbyshire Twistleton - 11/158</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Embarked 16 October 1914, Wellington Mounted Rifles</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Killed in Action 9 August 1915, Wellington Mounted Rifles, aged 26</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remembered on </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Charles Watt - 11/165 </span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Embarked 16 October 1914, Wellington Mounted Rifles</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Killed in Action 30 May 1915, Gallipoli, aged 34</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Remembered on Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Photos sourced from Auckland Museum Cenotaph database</span></span><br />
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