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The Dunedin Family History

Group’s purpose is to promote

interest in the field of family

history through educational

programs, to collect and

disseminate genealogical

knowledge and information, and

to provide support and guidance

to those trying to research all

aspects of their family history.

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History Group J U N E 2 0 1 4 I S S U E 7 8

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Heather Bray

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PROGRAMME FOR 2014 Unless otherwise stated meetings

start at 7.30 pm St Peter’s Church Hall,

500 Hillside Road, Dunedin. (entrance off Hillside Road, hall is at the left hand

side of the church)

11 June 2014 CHARTING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY

Easy tips and suggestions for manually drawing and displaying your family history.

Please bring along any charts you would like to display on the night.

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9 July 2014 PROBLEM SOLVING NIGHT

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13 August 2014 CASE STUDY:

How I researched the life of my 3x great grandmother.

This talk will be full of tips and suggestions and will use Cds, the Internet and books to solve

some mysteries of the family.

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10 September 2014 LAUNCH OF ENGLISH PARENTS

PUBLICATION Followed by a talk on researching in England.

REMEMBER: 31 July is closing date for entries.

PHOTO OF THE MONTH

Where was this suburban railway station located?

ANSWER ON PAGE 16

GROUP NEWS

PUBLICATION FOR SALE Georgetown Cemetery Booklet

Georgetown Cemetery is in North Otago. This publication has 98 pages and includes headstone

transcripts, newspaper death notices, war memorial and a selection of obituaries and inquests.

$30.00 including postage. Copies are available from: Shona Paton 197 Ferry Road, R.D. 1-K, Oamaru 9494

Telephone 03 4313720

Shona has kindly donated a copy of the Georgetown Cemetery index and it is now available

to view on the DFHG website.

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BIG THANK YOU To everyone who responded to the project to identify all soldiers who died overseas but are

recorded on headstones in the Andersons Bay Cemetery. We have identified several

more headstones, almost half the photographs and several biographies.

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PAPERSPAST HAVE EXTENDED YEARS http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/

paperspast

Papers Past have extended the dates for the

Clutha Leader now 1901-1920

Mataura Ensign now 1901-1914

Tuapeka Times 1910-1920

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EMAILING OF NEWSLETTERS Several members of the group did not receive their May newsletter when it was emailed out. We have no idea why this happened. We send

out over 2200 newsletters each month in alphabetical batches of 25. On investigation it

appears one batch did not get delivered. The DFHG uses XTRA (Yahoo) as our provider and most who did not receive their newsletters

were also XTRA customers. Some of the newsletters were found in the recipient’s SPAM

folder but several could not find any trace of receiving it. Fingers crossed you all have

received your June newsletter. Note that the newsletters are emailed out by the

first day of each month (12 issues a year, January being the only exception). If you have not received your newsletter by the first of the

month please email [email protected] and we will arrange to forward it to you.

GLENOMARU

WAR MEMORIAL

Glenomaru is a small settlement in The Catlins, located 11 kilometres north of Owaka and 25 kilometres south of Balclutha. It is believed it was named from a corruption of Scottish and Maori names. Glen is a Scottish name and Maru is the name of a Ngai Tahu chief. On 7 July 1891, a branch line railway from the Main South Line in Balclutha was opened to Glenomaru, and the village remained the terminus of the line until it was extended to Tahora on 16 December 1895. This line ultimately terminated in Tahakopa and was known as the Catlins River Branch. It closed on 27 February 1971 and a sawmill now exists on the site of Glenomaru station, though some of the railway's old formation can be seen in the surrounding area and the Hunts Road tunnel is in the vicinity and can be walked. GLENOMARU SCHOOL - The school opened in 1904 and closed on 4 June 1945. The pupils were then transported to Owaka School. OWAKA CEMETERY - Many of the early settlers from Glenomaru are buried in the Owaka Cemetery.

So Who Are These Soldiers:

HAY, George Huntley, Private 14020 Son of George and Helen Hay, Timaru NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Killed in action in Belgium on 14 June 1917. LINDSAY, Joseph Whyte, Private 6/4088 Son of Joseph and Mary Lindsay, Balclutha NZEF Canterbury Infantry Battalion Died of wounds in France on 1 October 1916. RANDALL, Christopher Owen, Private 19287 Son of Charles and Elizabeth Randall, Kaka Point NZEF Otago Infantry Regiment Killed in action at Bapaume, France on 28 August 1918. WARD, Thomas Frederick, Private 38324 Son of Edmund and Ruth Ward, Otekura NZEF Canterbury Battalion Killed in action at Le Quesnoy, France on 5 November 1918. WILSON, James, Lance Corporal 41121 Son of Catherine Wilson, Owaka NZEF New Zealand Rifle Brigade Killed in action at Ypres, Belgium on 16 November 1917.

THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

LANCE-CORP

JAMES WILSON PTE

GEORGE HUNTLEY HAY PTE

JOSEPH WHYTE LINDSAY PTE

CHRISTOPER OWEN RANDALL

PTE THOMAS FREDERICK

WARD

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS,

THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

Morrisons is a farming locality on the east side of the Shag River on the lower western slopes of the Horse Range. It is on the banks of Coal Creek, a tributary of the Shag River in the Waitaki District. It is located on SH85 (The “Pigroot”) 23 kilometres north east of Dunback, 37 kilometres north west of Palmerston and 39 kilometres south east of Ranfurly. It was named after one of the early settlers when land was balloted under Sir John McKenzie’s Land for Settlement Act. Morrisons had a Post Office until 1947 and a telephone bureau until 1957. The Morrisons Presbyterian Church was built by local people and Presbyterian theological students in 1954. It is a significant landmark beside the highway and regular services are held there.

Green Valley is a farming locality in the western foothills of the Horse Range in the Waitaki District. It is located on SH85, 29 kilometres north west of Palmerston, 43 kilometres south east of Ranfurly. It was named by the early settlers because of the rich fertile soil in the valley. It was originally part of the extensive holdings of Johnny Jones. Green Valley became a part of the Shag Valley Station founded by Sir Francis Dillon Bell. At one time the Shag Valley Run comprised 400,000 acres and supported 70,000 sheep. A Post Office operated from the 1880s until 1926. The main school to serve the area was the Waihemo School which opened in 1880 and closed in 1952. The local children were then bused to Dunback School. The Hocken Library in Dunedin has the Admission, Progress and Withdrawal records for the Waihemo School from 1901 to 1952. The old Waihemo school building was moved to Camp Armstrong near Palmerston. The former Green Valley Schoolhouse still remains in use as a crib and the former Coaching Inn, a substantial limestone building was converted into a private building. There was a community hall until it burned down in the early 1960s.

INTERESTING GRAVE

IN THE PORT CHALMERS CEMETERY

In the New Port Chalmers Cemetery is a headstone for James Henderson. The headstone is broken off the base and the top portion has been placed lying backwards against the base. The grave is surrounded by a rusted wrought iron fence.

The writing is worn in places but reads:

Erected by Elizabeth

In memory of her

Beloved husband,

James Henderson

Native of Banff, Scotland

Drowned Port Chalmers Baths

Sunday Nov 19th, 1893

Aged 54 years

Also of Elizabeth

Beloved wife of James Henderson

Died August 28th, 1901.

At the time of the drowning James Henderson, was a resident of Meridian Street, Port Chalmers and worked as a foreman at the Railway Goods Yard at Port Chalmers. He was born in Banff, Scotland and came to Auckland, New Zealand about 1861 when he was 22 years old. He married Elizabeth Harvey, an Auckland resident in 1866 and they moved to Port Chalmers.

The report of the drowning and the Coroners Inquest which followed was recorded in several editions of the Otago Daily Times newspaper. It would appear that the deceased was not a regular swimmer and in fact he told the bath-keeper on the day of the drowning that he had not swum for eighteen years. According to the local doctor and James Henderson’s wife, the deceased was in reasonable good health although his wife gave evidence that he had complained for the past three years of a pain in his side.

He had gone to the Baths at about half past twelve and had been in the water about three minutes when he called out to the Bath-keeper, David Burt, that “this is grand” which Burt assumed meant the temperature of the water. James Henderson then turned and swam about half the length of the pool back towards David Burt when it was noticed his arms drop and his face went down in the water. David Burt immediately threw a life-buoy to the James Henderson but he

made no attempt to reach for it so David Burt jumped into the water and pulled James Henderson’s body to the side of the pool. Members of the local Fire Brigade Ambulance Corps rendered first aid until two local doctors arrived but although they tried for over an hour and a half they could not resuscitate him. The doctors later gave evidence at the Coroners Inquest that they believed his heart had been affected but it is not clear if this meant he suffered from a heart condition.

Although the headstone says he drowned, the evidence at the Coroners Inquest gave the cause of death as syncope rather than drowning. Syncope (pronounced SING-ka-pee) is the medical term for fainting or passing out. This usually occurs suddenly, lasts for a short duration and has a spontaneous recovery. It could result from hypotension (low blood pressure), hypoglycaemia (low blood-sugar levels), cerebrovascular event (stroke), seizure, or concussion. It apparently is more common than imagined especially amongst teenagers and the elderly. Estimates are that 40% of the general population have one episode of syncope in their lifetime. It can only be suspected that the coroner deduced that from both the physical evidence and the witness evidence presented at the Inquest that while for all intents and purpose James Henderson had drowned, it was a loss of consciousness that led to the drowning. Had he not been in the water he may have revived without assistance so it is easy to see that the family recording on the headstone that he drowned was more understandable than saying he died from syncope or from passing out. The witness' comment probably rule out concussion. His other health factors would be considered to determine why he passed out but in the absence of specific evidence or medical history it could be a best guess. So in short - he passed out leading to his drowning.

His widow, Elizabeth Henderson remarried in 1895 to August Nelson. When she died in 1901 she was buried with James Henderson and the surname Nelson was not included on the headstone.

James Henderson was, however, not the only person to die while swimming in the Port Chalmers Baths. Several other deaths were recorded in the newspapers.

Two years before James Henderson's death there was another drowning. In December 1891, Robert Higman, a Salvation Army Captain based in Port Chalmers, drowned in the same Baths. He was 43 years of age and left a widow and three children. It was his death which resulted in changes in the operating procedures at the Baths.

At Robert Higman’s Coroners Inquest the verdict was “accidentally drowned” but a rider was added to the verdict that in the absence of a bath-keeper at the Baths that a proper substitute should be appointed or the Baths closed and a proper tide gauge should be erected and ropes placed across the Baths (Otago Daily Times, 31 December 189, page 2). Captain Higman was buried in the Addington cemetery, Christchurch.

On the right hand side of this photograph (marked with an X) is

the Port Chalmers Baths. It was an open uncovered pool filled

with sea water and jutted out into the harbour.

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ARMIT, Jean Melville 100 years Plan: Lawn Block 202 Plot 80 Stone 1: In Remembrance of Henrietta Louise loved wife of Robert ARMIT died 14 Mar 1950 aged 80 years also her beloved husband Robert died 18 Aug 1952 aged 82 years. Till the day break. Stone 2: also their loving daughter Jean Melville ARMIT 23 Aug 1998 aged 100 years.

BRIGGS, Nellie 101 years Plan: Block 46 Plot 31 Stone: In Loving Memory of James dearly beloved husband of Nellie BRIGGS died 12 May 1925 aged 34 years also his loved wife Nellie died 16 May 1991 aged 101 years also their beloved son Alan Ward BRIGGS died 30 Aug 2001 aged 81 years. Site: Concrete Surround and wood chips cover with geranium.

BUGDEN, Margaret 107 years Plan: R C Block 124 Plot 7 (double plot) Stone: In Loving Memory of Mary beloved wife of Thomas FITZGERALD died 7 Oct 1933 in her 72nd year also Thomas FITZGERALD beloved husband of above died 14 Apr 1940 aged 89 years Frederick John dearly beloved husband of Margaret BUGDEN died 7 Oct 1941 aged 43 Margaret BUGDEN loved wife of Frederick died 12 May 2003 aged 107 years R I P. Site: Moeraki Pebble surround and concrete sealed.

CAMPBELL, Jane 106 years Plan: Lawn Block 164 Plot 107 Stone: In Loving Memory of Arthur John Burns beloved husband of Jane CAMPBELL died 17 Sep 1949 aged 72 years Jane died 15 Sep 1982 aged 106 years.

CARLIER, Mary 100 years Plan: Lawn Block 264 Plot 33 Stone: In Loving Memory of Mary CARLIER died 8 Sep 1968 also her sister Esther SIM died 20 Apr 1992 aged 100 years. At Rest

CHRISTENSEN, Ethel 100 years Plan: Lawn RC Block 252 Plot 33 Stone: In Loving Memory of Jens Peter beloved husband of Ethel CHRISTENSEN died 17 Oct 1964 Ethel joined Jens 17 Feb 1996 aged 100 years. R I P.

COOK, Lawrence 100 years Plan: Lawn Block 160 Plot 119 Stone: In Loving Memory of Mary dearly loved wife of Lawrence COOK entered into rest 2 Jul 1941 also Lawrence COOK died 8 Sep 1963 aged 100 years. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.

CRAWFORD, Annie 100 years Plan: Lawn Block 66 Plot 82 Stone: In Loving Memory of Frances Joseph CRAWFORD died 17 Jul 1946 aged 74 years also his wife Annie died 3 May 1978 aged 100 years also their son Francis Harold CRAWFORD died 13 Aug 1979 aged 76 years.

CRAWLEY, Audrey Muriel 103 years Plan: Lawn Block 202 Plot 34 Stone 1In Loving Memory of George Edwin loved husband of Audrey M CRAWLEY died 16 Oct 1949 Audrey Muriel CRAWLEY died 30 Jan 1998 aged 103 years. Stone 2: and their son Kenneth 1929 – 1970.

DEEGAN, Florence 100 years Plan: Lawn RC Block 194 Plot 12 Stone: In Loving Memory of Denis DEEGAN died 19 Sep 1950 also his loved wife Florence died 27 Jul 1987 aged 100 years. R I P.

EDLIN, Florence Louise 101 years Plan: Block 146 Plot 82 Stone: In Loving Memory of Charles Percival loved husband of Florence L EDLIN died 10 Sep 1945 aged 64 years also his loved wife Florence Louise died 17 Sep 1982 aged 101 years. Peace Perfect Peace. Site: Concrete surround and sealed.

FOOTE, Sarah Templeton 108 years Plan: Wall of Memories behind the Office: Number 36 Plaque: In Loving Memory of Harry Arthur FOOTE died 25 Oct 1962 aged 74 years Sarah Templeton FOOTE died 14 Aug 1995 aged 108 years.

FRAPWELL, Agnes Ann 100 years Plan: Block 66 Plot 2 Stone: In Loving Memory of Lancelot Henry John beloved husband of Agnes Ann FRAPWELL born 30 Nov 1870 died 8 May 1933 also their beloved daughter Minnie died 24 Dec 1942 and Agnes Ann died 16 Dec 1969 aged 100 years. Site: Grey granite surround with pebbles cover and an urn.

GEERING, George F. T. 100 years Plan: Lawn Block 151 Plot 11 Stone 1: In Loving Memory of Ira Court GEERING died 2 Sep 1939 aged 33 years also Alice beloved wife of George GEERING died 17 Dec 1957 aged 78 years. Stone 2: George F T GEERING 7 Mar 1976 aged 100 years.

GRAHAM, Alice Charlotte 107 years Plan: Block 115 Plot 37 Stone 1: In Loving Memory of Frederick Charles GRAHAM died 6 Feb 1937 aged 32 years also Henry Tom GRAHAM died 10 Dec 1963 aged 87 years. Stone 2: In Loving Memory of Charles Mitchell BARNETT died 30 Dec 1937 aged 32 years. Bronze Plaque: In Loving Memory of Alice Charlotte GRAHAM wife of Henry Tom Graham died 16 Aug 1988 aged 107 years. Site: Concrete surround and sealed.

GROVES, Lilian M. 106 years Plan: Block 94 Plot 53 Stone 1: In Loving Memory of Corpl Andrew Dewar BRINGANS who died 21 May 1922 aged 25 years also Ann beloved wife of Andrew BRINGANS died 13 Jan 1940 aged 70 years and Andrew BRINGANS died 29 Jan 1955 in his 90th year. Stone 2: In Loving Memory of William H GROVES died 6 Mar 1968 and his beloved wife Lilian M GROVES died 18 Apr 2000 aged 106 years. Stone 3: In Loving Memory of William Andrew GROVES 1929 – 1995. Site: Concrete sealed with pink granite chips cover.

DECEASED AGE FULL HEADSTONE TRANSCRIPT

THE OVER 100 CLUB Currently there is a database being compiled of people who lived to 100 years plus. As part of this database the

Dunedin Family History Group has transcribed all entries from headstones at Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.

Note these entries are from headstones and not burial records. The following are the entries we extracted.

KENNELLY, Clarice Mary 100 years Plan: Lawn RC Block 194 Plot 50 Stone: In Loving Memory of Edward beloved husband of Clarice KENNELLY died 3 Sep 1951 aged 62 years and his beloved wife Clarice Mary KENNELLY died 13 Sep 1990 aged 100 years. R I P.

McLEAN, Ann 100 years Plan: Lawn Block 201 Plot 10 Stone 1: Remembrance. Andrew McLEAN died 2 Jun 1950 aged 90 years Ann wife of above died 19 Apr 1963 aged 100 years Agnes Thompson McLEAN died 15 Feb 1968 aged 80 years Doris Mowbray McLEAN died 25 Feb 1991 aged 89 years Elsie Anne McLEAN died 24 May 1994 aged 98 years. Stone 2: Robert Malcolm McLEAN died 7 Sep 1971 aged 82 years Janet Ann McLEAN died 22 Jul 1973 aged 83 years.

McLEOD, Beatrice Maud 103 years Plan: Block 108 Plot 43 Stone 1: In Loving Memory of my dear husband James KENNEDY died 25 Jul 1927 aged 79 years also of dear Cecil died 5 Nov 1931 aged 42 years. Only fond memories. Stone 2: In Loving Memory of Beatrice Maud McLEOD loved wife of William McLeod eldest daughter of James and Mary Ann Kennedy died Dunedin 9 Sep 1990 aged 103 years. Site: White marble scroll stone. Moeraki Pebble Surround and concrete sealed.

McSKIMMING, Doris Irene 102 years Plan: Lawn Block 226 Plot 70 Stone: In Loving Memory of my dear husband Samuel Aird McSKIMMING died 2 Feb 1959 aged 61 years and his loved wife Doris Irene McSKIMMING died 26 Sep 2001 aged 102 years.

NYE, Agnes Hutton Ruddle 107 years Plan: Lawn Block 226 Plot 60 Stone: In Loving Memory of Leslie Charles loved husband of Agnes NYE died 26 Feb 1959 aged 73 years also Agnes Hutton Ruddle NYE died 25 Feb 1993 aged 107 years. Sadly missed. Site: A ceramic rose is on the plot.

SAWERS, Christina 102 years Plan: Lawn Block 153 Plot 55 Stone: In Memory of William SAWERS 17 Jul 1939 aged 80 years also Christina beloved wife of above 23 Nov 1965 aged 102 years.

SCOTT, Rosella May 101 years Plan: Lawn Block 163 Plot 129 Stone: In Loving Memory of Henry Edward SCOTT died 9 Sep 1948 aged 63 years. R I P. Rosella May SCOTT born 1 May 1902 died 6 Nov 2003 aged 101 years.

SIM, Esther 100 years Plan: Lawn Block 264 Plot 33 Stone: In Loving Memory of Mary CARLIER died 8 Sep 1968 also her sister Esther SIM died 20 Apr 1992 aged 100 years. At Rest

SINCLAIR, Alexander 101 years Plan: Lawn Block 42a Plot 88 Stone: In Loving Memory of Alexander beloved husband of Elizabeth SINCLAIR died 4 Dec 1940 aged 71 years Elizabeth beloved wife of Alexander SINCLAIR died 22 Jan 1971 aged 101 years also their son Robert killed in action in France 5 Oct 1916 aged 25 years. Forever with the Lord.

STUART, Grace Hilda 102 years Plan: Block 7 Plot 20, 18, 16, 14, 12 Stone: Omne Solum Forti Patria. Erected In Loving Memory of Alexander STUART of Clifton who died 14 Jan 1905 aged 74 years and his wife Jane STUART died 21 Aug 1922 aged 89 years. STUART. Left Side: also Henry STUART died Jul 1874 aged 3 months also James George STUART M A, LLB died 8 Jul 1934 aged 64 years also William Alexander STUART died 3 Jun 1948 aged 82 years Grace Hilda STUART loved wife of John Bannerman Stuart died 18 Mar 1995 aged 102 years. Right Side: also Mary Jane STUART died 25 Feb 1921 aged 54 years also John Bannerman STUART died 12 Jun 1942 aged 78 years; 27613 2nd Lieut 1st NZEF William Alexander STUART M Sc killed in action in France 16 Aug 1918 aged 27 years also John Bannerman STUART died 29 Oct 1978 aged 85 years. Site: Tall grey granite stone Concrete Surround and pebbles cover.

SUTHERLAND, Frederick R. H.

100 years Plan: Block 47 Plot 53 Stone: In Loving Memory of Mary SUTHERLAND died 31 Dec 1953 aged 86 years her husband Frederick R H died 12 Dec 1968 aged 100 years also his father & our grandfather Neil SUTHERLAND died 18 Oct 1917. Site: Concrete sealed.

TARLETON, Wilhelmina 103 years Plan: Lawn RC Block 231 Plot 78 Stone: In Loving Memory of Christopher Patrick loved husband of Wilhelmina TARLETON died 12 Jan 1959 also Wilhelmina TARLETON died 27 Apr 1993 aged 103 years R I P. Site: Headstone has a cross with I H S inscribed.

TEMPLETON, Mary Jane 100 years Plan: Block 108 Plot 25 Stone: In Loving Memory of Ivie TEMPLETON beloved husband of Mary Jane Templeton died Dunedin 25 Sep 1927 aged 80 also Mary Jane beloved wife of above died 12 Jul 1965 aged 100 years. Site: Moeraki Pebble Surround and chips cover.

WALTER, Isabella Maud 101 years Plan: Block 91 Plot 25 Stone 1: WALTER nameplate at the foot of the plot. Stone 2: In Loving Memory of Margaret Douglas WALTER died 20 Oct 1920 also her father James FIRTH died 25 Oct 1933 and her mother Mary died 30 Sep 1958 Isabella Maud WALTER died 22 Apr 1996 aged 101 years. Site: Concrete Surround and wood chips cover.

WATT, Lena Betsy 103 years Plan: Block 110 Plot 7 Stone 1: WATT nameplate at the foot of the plot. Stone 2: In Loving Memory of Christina beloved wife of James WATT died 18 Feb 1929 aged 74 years also Tpr A WATT son of above killed in Palestine 14 Jul 1918 aged 27 years also James WATT beloved husband of above died 21 Jul 1932 aged 81 years also Lena Betsy WATT beloved daughter of James & Christina Watt born 17 May 1894 died 10 Jan 1998 aged 103 years. Site: Moeraki Pebble surround and pebbles cover.

WILKINS, Elizabeth Ann 103 years Plan: RC Block 84 Plot 89 Stone: In Loving Memory of Thomas Edward beloved husband of Elizabeth WILKINS died 1 Feb 1928 aged 50 years. Elizabeth Ann WILKINS died 17 Aug 1990 aged 103 years. R I P. WILKINS. Site: Stone is a grey granite column with a cross atop. Concrete surround & white pebbles cover.

DUNEDIN CITY COUNCIL EMPLOYEES ROLL OF HONOUR

The Dunedin City Council Roll of Honour for World War

One is on the Wall at the Toitu Otago Settlers Museum. It is a

magnificent honours board which includes the names of both

those who served overseas and those who made the supreme

sacrifice. The DFHG extends its grateful thanks to the staff at

the museum for allowing us to photograph this beautiful

Honours Board.

MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

BROWNING, George Henry, Private 8/1416 Son of Mr and Mrs T. Browning, Hove, England Husband of Margaret Browning, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 9 August 1915.

CRANE, Harry, Private 2634A Australian Infantry Killed on 21 July 1916 at Somme, France.

DEMPSTER, George Alexander, Private 71101 Son of Mr A. Dempster, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Regiment Died of wounds in France on 8 October 1918.

DURANT, William MacLeish, Lieutenant 4/1223 Husband of Mrs J. Durant, Dunedin NZEF New Zealand Engineers Died of wounds in France on 14 September 1916.

INGLE, Claude, Trooper 9/714 NZEF Otago Mounted Rifles Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 21 August 1915.

McINTYRE, Duncan Glass, Private 8/1100 Son of Mr and Mrs John McIntyre, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 2 May 1915.

McQUILKAN, Murdoch, Trooper 9/636 Son of Mr D. McQuilkan, Whare Flat NZEF Otago Mounted Rifles Died of disease in Egypt on 16 December 1915.

MILES, Arthur, Private 8/600 Son of Thomas and Susan Miles, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Died of disease in Malta on 25 August 1915.

MOIR, Alexander McCandlish, Trooper 9/65 Son of Mr and Mrs Peter Moir, Dunedin NZEF Otago Mounted Rifles Died of disease in Greece on 30 July 1915.

NICOL, George Arnot, Private 9/1474 Son of Mr David Nicol, Dunedin NZEF Wellington Infantry Regiment Killed in action at Ypres, Belgium on 4 October 1917.

ORCHISTON, Gordon Juro, Private 90540 Son of Joseph and Annie Orchiston Husband of Magdalena Orchiston, Dunedin NZEF New Zealand Training Unit Died of influenza at Featherston on 16 November 1918 Buried in the Featherston Cemetery.

PAGE, Thomas, Trooper 9/516 Son of Edward and Elizabeth Page, Hove, England NZEF Otago Mounted Rifles Died of wounds in England on 20 September 1915.

PEARSON, Francis George, Sapper 4/1309A Son of William and Mary Pearson, Mosgiel Junction NZEF New Zealand Engineers Killed in action at Gallopoli, Turkey on 28 April 1915.

PIPER, James, Private 8/1313 Son of Michael Piper, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Died of wounds in Egypt on 2 May 1915.

REYNOLDS, Oswald Bertram, Gunner 2/2519 Son of Mrs M. Reynolds, St Kilda, Dunedin NZEF New Zealand Field Artillery Killed in action at Somme, France on 25 September 1916.

SHEEHAN, Peter, Private 8/4018 Son of Michael and late Annie Sheehan NZEF Otago Infantry Regiment Killed in action at Somme, France on 1 October 1916.

THOMPSON, Stanley, Lance Corporal 14003 Husband of Susan Thompson, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Died of measles at sea en route to England on 19 July 1916.

Name also appears on the Otago Provincial Memorial at Andersons

Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.

TORRIE, Robert, Corporal 8/1109 Son of John and Mary Torrie, Selkirk, Scotland NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Died of wounds at sea ex Gallipoli, Turkey on 3 May 1915.

WHEELER, Daniel, Private 32764 Son of Mr and Mrs Wheeler, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Regiment Killed in action in Belgium on 7 June 1917.

SERVED OVERSEAS

OFFICIAL STAFF AITCHESON, J. A. CAREY, S. L. DOWLAND, S. A. C . FRASER, J. M. GRIGG, E. A. L. JAMES, C. S. JEFFERY, H. C. SWAN, L. W.

GAS DEPARTMENT BAIRD, K. HORROCKS, H. MILLER, F.

WATER DEPARTMENT BUTLER, T. DOUDLE, W. T. EDWARDS, W. FINNERTY, C. FINNERTY, C. FRASER, J. LAMONT, S. LAMONT, A. MATHESON, A. MORRISON, J. MCKAY, H.

McMILLAN, A. O’NEILL, M. RACKHAM, W. REEVES, A. ROBERTSON, V. C. WOODS, J.

WORKS DEPARTMENT BAUCHOP, W. CONNOR, C. COUGHLAN, L. J. DONLAN, P. FAIRWEATHER, W. C. FRAME, J. FRASER, D. HAY, N. J. HERRING, W. E. HICKMAN, E. T. MacKENZIE, R. C. MORRIS, R. V. MORRISON, J. SIMPSON, E. F.

ELECTRIC, POWER AND LIGHT DEPARTMENT ABERNETHY, J. N. ANDERSON, D. W. M.

ELECTRIC, POWER AND LIGHT DEPARTMENT CONT

ANDERSON, T. A. N. ARUNDEL, N. BANKS, T. CAMERON, W. CORMICK, J. GILMORE, E. F. HAMILTON, R. HANLEY, T. HAYDEN, E. J. JEPHSON, J. E. JONES, E. KING, A. LECALL, C. LINDSAY, C. P. MACKIE, A. P. MARTIN, K. MOONEY, T. MONTGOMERY, R. F. McLEAN, L. OVERTON, T. R. RYAN, J. WHEELER, A.

TRAMWAYS DEPARTMENT BENTLEY, J. BROADFOOT, J. BROOM, J. J. BUNTING, J. S. W. CAMERON, A. H. CLANCY, W. S. CULLINGER, W. H. B. DOUGHTY, H. I. DAGGER, R. H. DYER, J. EWART, A. D. GRAHAM, R. W. R. HANNAH, A. HEATLEY, D. P. HENDERSON, D. HILLIKER, F. G. HOLLEY, A. E. HOPE, G. JOHNSON, J. S. JONES, A. R. KEILAR, A. LAWRENCE, C. MATTHEWS, W. P. MacGREGOR, S. MAXWELL, A. MILLS, A. McLEOD, M. PATERSON, J. A. PYE, C. M. RAINHAM, F. H. RAPER, F. REEKIE, A. SMOLENSKI, A. STURGEON, J. T. THOMAS, W. H. H. TORRIE, P. TRAINOR, J. E. UMBERS, H. CAT WEBSTER, A. M. WEST, C. I. WINCHESTER, B. H. WYATT, H.

RESERVES DEPARTMENT COUDIE, B.

HAY, J. KNOX, J. McCALL, J. L. NEWMAN, A. SHEEHAN, J. MURPHY, W.

SANITARY DEPARTMENT LEAPER, W. WINDERS, G. H.

BATHS PHELAN, V.

SERVED IN CAMP IN N. Z.

OFFICIAL STAFF AUSTIN, A. E. HUNGERFORD, J. LONG, J. LOW, W. J. MacKENZIE, W. H. STEPHENSON, C. B. TIMLIN, J. W.

GAS DEPARTMENT BELL, J. DOUGLAS, J.

WATER DEPARTMENT HARRIS, J.

WORKS DEPARTMENT GILCHRIST, C.

ELECTRIC, POWER AND LIGHT DEPARTMENT BERRYMAN, W. ELLIS, J. R. ILES, E. J. ILES, W. A. JOSEPHSON, M. D. MARTIN, J. McSHAIN, J. D. ROBERTSON, P. WARREN, F.

TRAMSWAYS DEPARTMENT ANDERSON, E. W. CHAMMEN, C. C. CHETWIN, H. CLARK, W. A. CLAYTON, E. CURRIE, J. DOBBIN, J. ST C. HARE, T. C. JUDD, W. LAWRENCE, J. T. MORRIS, E. McLAUCHLIN, J. J. M. McNAUGHTON, A. B. PENNYCUICK, W. N. PLAISTER, A. REID, B. H. VICKERS, R. J. WATT, W. J.

RESERVES DEPARTMENT BREEN, J.

SANITARY DEPARTMENT CARTER, R. WRIGHT, C.

High Street Cable Car

I am looking for information on Thomas Fred. Martin born 10 July 1895 in Dunedin to Thomas William Martin (Dunedin) and Barbara McDougall (Waikouaiti). He died Victor James McGregor (Brighton) 27 August 1972, husband of Alice Ivy McGregor (nee Rhodes/Sammons). Any information would be very appreciated. [email protected]

############################# Thomas James Proctor was born in Fleetwood, England, in 1851, to Robert Procter and Jane Noblet. He immigrated, arriving in Port Chalmers in 1868. He died 1 March 1934 at Green Island, Dunedin, Otago. Jane Dalgleish was born in Harwick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, in April 1861, to John Dalgleish and Janet Renwick. She died at Seacliff Farm, Otago, on 9 March, 1949. Thomas and Jane married in Otago, in 1879. It appears that Thomas spelt the name Proctor at this time, but the name became spelt with an ‘e’ eventually. They had 5 children: Thomas (born 1883), John (born 1886), James Renwick (born 1887), Jane Noblet (born 1891), William (born 1894). James Renwick Proctor is my great grandfather. To date, I have limited information about James Renwick, as well as Jane Noblet and Thomas, but regarding the others I have not found anything. I am interested in any information that anyone might have about these early settlers of Dunedin. Ideally, there might be a photo or two available as well, but I don’t want to get ahead of myself! Richard Cannane [email protected]

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FOR SALE: The group has for sale stylus pens for use with iphones, ipads, tablets etc. These normally sell for $6.00 each but we have them for sale at $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00. They come in an assortment of colours. These are available to purchase at our June meeting or by sending money to DFHG, 28 Milburn Street, Corstorphine, Dunedin 9012. Please include an extra $1.80 to cover postage. Please note these sold fast at our May meeting and we only have a limited stock left so be in quick.

FAMILY HISTORY PUBLICATION

The group has been donated a copy of “A Reid and Shakespeare Family History”. It is primarily about a Tasmanian family but it has Dunedin content as several members of the Reid family resided in Dunedin in the 19th and 20th century. For further information about this publication contact:

Malcolm Ward, P. O. Box 275, Orford, Tasmania 7190,

Australia [email protected]

CAVERSHAM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 61 THORN STREET, CAVERSHAM, DUNEDIN

The work of the Presbyterian Church in Caversham dates back to the establishment, by James Roy, of an interdenominational Sunday School in 1863. In 1874 a wooden building was moved to Caversham and erected on a section in Maria (now Ranfurly) Street, Caversham. This church was destroyed by a fire in 1882. Following the fire the land in Ranfurly Street was sold and land was donated for the erection of the present Caversham Presbyterian Church in Manse Street (then re-named Marion Street and is now Thorn Street). The foundation stone of the present church was laid with Masonic honours and the completed building was consecrated in February 1883. The Church was designed by T. B. Cameron and built of hardstone with limestone facings. The front of the church had cast iron railings which have long since been removed. Since it was built two other additions have been added - Baxter Hall and Sidey Hall. The original church Manse was on the corner of Playfair and Thorn Streets, next to the Church and on the site on which the Sidey Hall is now built. The second Manse was on the corner of Playfair Street and Hazel Avenue, followed by a manse in Skibo Street and then in Milburn Street. The first organ was installed in 1888 and in 1911 Mr John Sidey presented a pipe organ to the church. In 1951 a War organ was dedicated in memory of those who served in the Second World War. It was unveiled by Mrs Lloyd whose two sons died in action. In 1975, the 1951 War Memorial Organ was rebuilt and enlarged by the South Island Organ Company of Timaru. In 1996 the church received a category “A” listing from the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. The Caversham Presbyterian Church is now part of the Coastal Unity Parish.

For a parish church of its size, Caversham has an unusually large collection of stained glass windows. Two of these windows are dedicated to involvement with the World Wars. BOYES WINDOW: This window is dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant Andrew Colquhoun Boyes, NZEF 2nd Battalion Otago Infantry Regiment who was killed aged 24 years at Armentieres, France on 16 May 1916. Before enlisting Andrew Boyes was active in the service of the church and held the position of Secretary of the Sunday School. The window was donated by Mrs Anderson, Andrew Boyes aunt, and was unveiled by her when the church was reopened following renovations in 1923. IONA WINDOW: This window was installed in memory of the men and women of the parish who served in World War II. Other memorials within the church, include those to Sir Thomas Kay Sidey (50 years service to the Church); William Henderson (Elder from 1890 to 1926) and to the Rev Daniel Dutton. There are also memorials to 44 members of the congregation who served in World War One and 12 members who died in the armed services during World War Two.

CAVERSHAM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAR EMORIALS 1914 THE GREAT WAR 1919

ROLL OF HONOUR * indicates died

CAVERSHAM

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

The Caversham Presbyterian Church as it looked on completion in

1883. The Manse on the right was built in 1875 on the corner of

Manse Street (previously Marion Street now named Thorn Street).

A. C. BOYES * G. G. CHAMBERS J. A. CUTTLE * J. B. HORNE * C. HORNE G. CARDNO * O. C. SMITH * J. H. CARNEGIE N. CARNEGIE F. S. McAULAY K. CALDER * W. LINTON A. H. McGREGOR C. A. MARTIN W. G. HANNAH Rev E. W. HALFORD * J. K. CARDNO R. W. CARDNO H. TOWNROW THOMAS EWART JOHN AITKEN ROBT. B. HENDERSON

J. A. F. MARTIN * F. McIVOR A. ADAM D. McAUILAY W. CARDNO * C. H. PAINE G. J. SUTHERLAND * M. CARNEGIE * H. DENFORD A. McIVOR A. AUSTIN E. BROWN G. McGREGOR G. A. CARDNO * W. N. PORTEOUS C. TROTTER H. GEAR * B. HAIG ALBERT D. EWART GORDON McBEATH JAMES HOY N. SMITH

CHAPLAIN MAJOR D. DUTTON

DEDICATED TO THE PRAISE AND GLORY OF GOD IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

OF ALL FROM THIS CONGREGATION WHO SERVED IN THE WAR OF 1939-1945

AND ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES A. L. V. BURNS J. L. LLOYD K. A. McGREGOR E. HOWARTH A. G. LLOYD H. J. PARIS R. JEFFREYS J. D. McGREGOR E. C. SHERRIFF J. C. LECKIE W. Y. McGREGOR W. E. S. STEVENSON

“THERE BE OF THEM THAT HAVE LEFT A NAME BEHIND TO DECLARE THEIR PRAISES”

ECCLESIASTICUS 44.8

SO WHO WERE THOSE WHO DIED?

WORLD WAR ONE

BOYES, Andrew Colquhoun, Second Lieutenant 8/1092 Son of John and Annie Boyes, Caversham, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Killed in action at the Somme, France on 16 May 1916.

Name also appears on the Caversham School Memorial Gates and

the Hillside Workshops War Memorial.

CALDER, Kenneth Moir, Rifleman 24/393 Son of David and Jessie Calder, Dunedin NZEF New Zealand Rifle Brigade Died of meningitis in Wellington on 5 July 1915 Buried in the Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.

CARDNO, George Alexander, Lance Corporal 21974 Son of William and Jane Cardno, Caversham, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Regiment Died of wounds in France on 22 October 1918.

CARDNO, George Alexander, Rifleman 23/702 Son of George and Ada Cardno, Dunedin NZEF New Zealand Rifle Brigade Died of wounds in France on 15 September 1916. Name also appears on the Caversham School Memorial Gates, the

Dunedin Railway Station Roll of Honour and the Palmerston War

Memorial.

CARDNO, William Robertson, Private 6/1256 Son of George and Ada Cardno, Dunedin NZEF Canterbury Infantry Battalion Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 5 June 1915.

Name also appears on the Caversham School Memorial Gates.

CARNEGIE, Maxwell Rae, Private 8/1717 Son of David and Eunice Carnegie, Caversham, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 9 August 1915.

CUTTLE, Joseph Alexander, Trooper 9/122 Son of Mr and Mrs John Cuttle, Dunedin NZEF Otago Mounted Rifles Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 27 August 1915.

Name also appears on the Caversham School Memorial Gates

GEAR, James Henry Nicholson (Henry), Private 53581 Husband of Martha Gear, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Regiment Killed in action at Somme, France on 5 April 1918.

Name also appears on the Caversham School Memorial Gates and

the Caversham Baptist Church Roll of Honour.

HALFORD, Edmund William (Rev), Corporal 36832 NZEF Otago Infantry Regiment Killed in action at Ypres, Belgium on 12 October 1917.

HORNE, Jack Brett, Sapper 4/411 Son of Charles and Louisa Horne, Dunedin NZEF New Zealand Engineers Died of disease in England on 19 July 1915.

MARTIN, John Alexander Erobester, Sergeant 8/894 Son of Alexander and Alice Martin, Caversham, Dunedin NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 2 May 1915. Name also appears on the St Peters Anglican Church, Hillside

Road, Dunedin.

SMITH, Oscar Charles, Private 8/3075 Son of Charles and Mary Ann Smith, Glenledi NZEF Machine Gun Corps Killed in action in Bapaume, France on 26 August 1918.

Name also appears on the Bruce War Memorial in Milton, the

Glenledi War Memorial and the Otago Boys High School War

Memorial.

SUTHERLAND, George James, Corporal 8/1849 Son of James and Arabella Sutherland, Caversham, Dunedin Husband of Williamena Sutherland, Christchurch NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Died of wounds at sea (ex Gallipoli, Turkey) on 7 September 1915.

WORLD WAR TWO

Burns, Arthur Leslie V., Staff Sergeant 16839 Son of William and Kate Burns, Dunedin Husband of Joan Burns, Christchurch 20 Infantry Battalion Killed in the Western Desert on 18 July 1942.

HOWARTH, Ernest Elliott, Pilot Officer 42128 Son of William and Isabella Howarth, Dunedin Royal Air Force 26 Squadron Killed in Europe on 27 May 1940.

Name also appears on the Macandrew Road School and Hillside

Workshop War Memorial.

JEFFREYS, R. - Unable to identify this soldier.

LECKIE, James Carter, Leading Telegraphist 0/7247 Son of James and Dora Leckie, Dunedin Husband of Ellen Leckie, Dunedin Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve Died when his ship (HMS Neptune) hit mines in the Mediterranean off Tripoli and sank on 19 December 1941.

World War One Roll of Honour

World War Two Roll of Honour

LLOYD, Albert Gordon, Corporal 242781 Son of Enoch and Maud Lloyd, Caversham, Dunedin 26 Infantry Battalion Killed in action in Italy on 31 March 1944.

LLOYD, John Llewellyn, Sergeant NZ413438 Son of Enoch and Maud Lloyd, Caversham, Dunedin Royal New Zealand Air Force Killed in the United Kingdom on 15 October 1942.

Name also appears on the Hillside Workshop War Memorial.

McGREGOR, John Dunlop (Jack), Pilot Officer NZ403465 Son of Alexander and Janet McGregor, Auckland Royal New Zealand Air Force Killed on air operations in Europe on 2 July 1942.

Name also appears on the Macandrew Road School War Memorial.

McGREGOR, Keith Alexander, Flight Sergeant NZ415770 Son of Matthew and Jeanie McGregor, Waikouaiti Royal New Zealand Air Force 75 Squadron Killed in action in Europe on 1 September 1943.

McGREGOR, Walter Young, Flight Lieutenant NZ412789 Son of Alexander and Janet McGregor, Auckland Royal New Zealand Air Force 227 Squadron Killed on air operations in Greece on 2 September 1943.

Name also appears on the Macandrew Road School War Memorial.

PARIS, Harry James, Second Lieutenant 15556 Son of Harry and Vera Paris, Caversham, Dunedin 24 Infantry Battalion Killed in action in Italy on 26 July 1944.

SHERRIFF, Ernest Charles, Sub Lieutenant Son of David and Alice Sherriff, Caversham, Dunedin Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve Killed in an aircraft accident in Scotland on 15 March 1945.

STEVENSON, William Ellis Stewart (Bill), Private 422182 Son of William and Catherine Stevenson, Dunedin Husband of Audrey Stevenson, Auckland 26 Infantry Battalion Died of wounds in Italy on 26 April 1944.

YOU SHOULD ALWAYS PURCHASE CERTIFICATES FOR YOUR DIRECT ANCESTORY

From one who just learnt a hard lesson by not doing so (aka Carole Sutherland)

My grandmother, Margaret Cecilia Henderson nee Waldie was born in London in February 1900. Six weeks after her birth her parents sailed for Dunedin. Her father was Mathew Waldie and her mother was Ada Lilian Lennox and they had married in December 1899, just five weeks before Margaret was born. They had married in Somerset so it has always been assumed that they were in London seeking passage to New Zealand when my grandmother was born. They settled in Dunedin where a further eight children were born. Mathew was visiting his son in Invercargill in 1939 when he died suddenly. Ada went to live with my grandmother in Hampden and died there in 1943. My grandmother was an amateur genealogist and wrote her family history in an exercise book. She gave it to me in 1997, just prior to her death, at the age of 97 years. I got quite interested in reading it and soon started doing a family tree. I found all of the information my grandmother provided to be accurate and it was easy to start researching back in England finding Mathew and Ada’s families on census and parish records. I got back quite easily to the 1700s but because my grandmother’s information was so accurate I never purchased a single certificate. I felt I had completed the basic research on my grandmother’s side so put it aside and started on my grandfather’s family tree. Then in December 2013 a cousin of my mother’s contacted me. She had decided to also do her family tree which included my grandmother’s branch. She had been told I had the exercise book and she wondered if she could borrow it. I said I had actually done the tree and I would be happy to give her a copy. We arranged for her to visit that weekend. She looked over the tree which

I had proudly printed out and asked “so who did Ada Lilian Lennox marry before Mathew Waldie?” I looked rather blankly and said she only married Mathew. She was 18 when they married so I doubted she would have been married before. To which my cousin pulled out the marriage certificate from her folder. It showed that Ada was 18 years of age and a widow when she married Mathew Waldie. HOW!!!!! And why did she marry as Lennox which was her maiden name. If she was indeed a widow she would have had to have married under her married name. So begun a rather lengthy search. I could find no marriage for Ada Lilian Lennox to anyone in England from 1880 to 1899 when she married Mathew Waldie. At a DFHG meeting I took along the certificate and asked Heather Bray for help. Heather suggested that she married someone called Lennox which was why her maiden and married name would be the same. Perhaps she married a cousin. Heather asked if there was a possible cousin the right age who might be her late husband. Heather also suggested I expanded my search for a marriage beyond England. I checked the family tree. Ada’s father was Bartholomew Lennox. He had several brothers but only one lived to adulthood and married - Samuel Lennox. He had four sons - Kendall, Mathew, Samuel and Seamus Lennox who were Ada’s cousins. I had details of three of the sons but I knew nothing about what happened to Kendall Lennox. So I took Heather’s advice and searched for records for Scotland and Ireland. Nothing for a marriage or a death for Kendall Lennox. So I went into my search engine and typed in his name to see if he was on any Internet sites and one hit turned up. It was a passenger list for fifteen year old Kendall Lennox sailing to Canada accompanied by his father Samuel, his mother Matilda, his brother’s Mathew, Samuel and Seamus and his fourteen year old cousin Ada Lennox who was recorded as a servant to the Lennox family. So my great grandmother had travelled to Canada as a servant to her uncle and aunt. I discovered (this time by buying certificates) that Kendall and Ada Lennox married in May 1898 in Manitoba, Canada. Ada was 16 years of age at the time and her uncle gave permission for his niece to marry his son. Kendall was killed while felling a tree in July 1898, two months after the marriage had taken place. The whole Lennox family returned to England in November 1898. On the manifest of the voyage back to England I found a passenger called Mathew Waldie on the same voyage as Ada Lennox. I did not know my great grandfather had also been in Canada. He was travelling on his own and his time in Canada remains a complete mystery to me. Mathew and Ada must have started courting on that voyage because my grandmother was conceived in May 1899 and Mathew and Ada married in December 1899. So Ada Lennox was indeed a widow when she married at the age of 18 years. So many questions need to be asked now. Why did Ada travel to Canada with her aunt and uncle, why was Mathew Waldie in Canada, why did they leave for New Zealand so soon after marrying, was their marriage not approved by Ada’s parents or her uncle who seemed to have so much say over his niece’s life. I was convinced my grandmother can not have known about her mother’s first marriage or her time in Canada because she did not include any of this in the exercise book. But now I am wondering if she did know because I ordered Ada’s death certificate and was shocked to see it showed the two marriages. And my grandmother was the informant. So my grandmother felt compelled to put it on an official document (the death certificate) but not to record it in the family history she wrote. I have certainly learnt a hard lesson here. You have to purchase certificates. You never know what little clues they may provide.

Waipori Falls was the name given to the village at the Waipori Falls hydro-electric power station. It is located in the forge of the Waipori River, about 14 kilometres downstream from the outflow of Lake Mahinerangi. It is 24 kilometres north-west of Henley, 31 kilometres south-west from Outram and 46 kilometres north of Milton. Waipori means “dark water”. There is often confusion between the villages of Waipori and Waipori Falls. Gold was discovered at Waipori in 1861 and a booming gold town sprang up there with eleven hotels as well as restaurants and dance halls. Gold dredging technology was pioneered at Waipori, and a reserve south of the lake preserves the remnants of Otago’s first underground quartz mine. The township of Waipori and most of the old goldfields were submerged in 1925 by the creation of Lake Mahinerangi for water storage to feed the power stations. The Waipori Falls Electric Power Company began a hydro-electric scheme in 1902 but was bought out by the Dunedin City Council in 1904 for £31,000. In 1907 a worker’s village was built and the works began producing power in the same year. The village was called Waipori Falls. Since that time, four more generating stations have been added to the system. A Post Office operated at Waipori Falls village from July 1920 until it was closed in February 1988. In 1991, as a result of economic factors and increasing automation of the plant, the Waipori Falls village was closed, along with the primary school and shop. In 1993 a property developer bought the village and its amenities and sold the houses to private owners. Many of these houses are now used as holiday homes. In 2007 centenary celebrations were held at Waipori Falls. WAIPORI FALLS SCHOOL Waipori school opened in 1866 and Waipori Falls School opened in 1910. The Waipori School closed in 1942 and pupils then attended the Waipori Falls School which closed in 1991. The Hocken Library in Dunedin holds the Waipori Falls School history file dating from 1949 to 1971. The file Includes historical notes and photographs of school buildings. WAIPORI CEMETERY The nearest cemetery to Waipori Falls is the Waipori Cemetery. It is located in the Tuapeka District on the hilltop above Lake Mahinerangi. The cemetery headstones have been transcribed from 1861 to 1977 and are available as part of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Cemetery Transcripts available at most public libraries on microfiche.

The Waipori Falls War Memorial. Located in the yard of the Waipori Falls Power Station. Previously located in the Waipori Falls School grounds.

Thank you to Logan McGhie, from Trustpower,

for providing this photograph.

IN MEMORY OF

THE EX-PUPILS WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

DURING THE II WORLD WAR 1939-1945

ALLAN B. CAMERON GEORGE FIRMAN

VINCENT J. McNULTY DAVID C. STEWART

“AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM”

CAMERON, Allan Barclay, Private 18834 Son of Angus and Jemima Cameron, Outram New Zealand Infantry Battalion Killed in action in the Western Desert on 24 October 1942.

Name also appears on the West Taieri War Memorial at

Outram.

FIRMAN, George, Leading Aircraftsman NZ4312786 Son of George and Louisa Firman, Dunedin Royal New Zealand Air Force 40 Squadron Killed in the Pacific on 24 September 1945. Name also appears on the Hillside Workshop War Memorial.

McNULTY, Vincent John, Private 434871 Son of Thomas and Gladys McNulty, Waipori Falls Second NZEF Died of wounds in Italy on 24 December 1943.

Name also appears on the Hillside Workshop War Memorial. STEWART, David Cameron, Flight Sergeant NZ40990 Son of David and Lily Stewart, Waipori Falls Royal New Zealand Air Force 635 Squadron Killed in Europe on 13 May 1944.

Waipori Falls Village and Power Station in 1939

For over three years I’ve been researching Bank of New

Zealand officers who served in the First World War. Over a

similar period I have visited Commonwealth War Graves in

Belgium and France where those who failed to make it home

are buried or memorialized. With the first of the

commemorations to mark the Centenary due to take place in

Wellington, on 4 August 2014, I thought it timely to share a

snapshot of my discoveries with you as I suspect some may

already be making plans to attend commemorative services at

Gallipoli, the Somme, Messines and Passchendaele next year.

In time my work will be deposited with the Bank of New

Zealand Museum at Harbour Quays, Wellington and the New

Zealand Society of Genealogists, Panmure.

Kind regards Paul Hickford

E-mail: [email protected]

THE FOLLOWING REMAINS WORK IN PROGRESS AND

WAS LAST UPDATED 16 MAY 2014

REMEMBERING OFFICERS OF BANK OF NEW ZEALAND WHO SERVED IN FIRST WORLD WAR

The First World War was declared on 4 August 1914 and was to be the war to end all wars. It proved not to be and ended in a stalemate after both sides had expended men and materials

in titanic proportions. Never had European blood been spilled

in such profligate quantities… and above all, at Verdun the

loss of life could on occasions be counted in tens of thousands

per hour or hundreds per square yard. (Europe: A History by

Norman Davies, 1997). Between 1914 and 1918 almost 500 Bank of New Zealand

(BNZ) officers enlisted for military service, patriotically answering the call to serve King and Country. The majority fought in the battles of Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele where due to flawed tactics, military blunders and incredible botch-ups, New Zealand suffered its darkest days. The horrendous weather in the Somme and Passchendaele, mud, rain and snow, prevented proper emplacement of field artillery and contributed to the significant losses of troops. 71 BNZ officers, including five from London branch, failed to return from their war duty and are memorialized at:

• Commonwealth War Grave cemeteries at Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele

• more remote cemeteries in France and Belgium

• several New Zealand cemeteries Their names are also inscribed on the memorial plaque now located at BNZ’s premises at Harbour Quays, Wellington. For reasons known only to his family, Harold Ellison SPEIGHT, Military Cross, who died at Whakatane on 19 November 1918, fails to feature on the bank’s memorial. The names of some who served are very familiar – ASHBY, DYKES, ROWAN, SARE, SOUNESS, STITT and YELVERTON. There are numerous others who are less familiar but will be remembered because their deaths are now linked to significant dates in history – Private John Lamb SCOULAR who lost his life at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and Gunner Harold Clarence DE RIDDER who died on 11 November 1918, coinciding with Armistice Day and the end of the Great War. Sapper Frank William WILTSHIRE is another. He arrived from London in late 1913 and joined BNZ at Auckland branch. Frank died from wounds received at Messines in 1917. Each year on 10

November “Friends of the In Flanders Fields Museum”, accompanied by a pipe band and bugler, gather at his graveside at La Plus Douve Farm Cemetery near Ypres/Ieper for a memorial service. There were also families who lost several sons including the BOYDS of Kaikoura, FELDWICKS of Kaiapoi, GILMOURS of Invercargill, MORPETHS of Auckland, REEVES, RUDKINS of Reefton, SMITHS of Otago all of whom had one or more sons working for BNZ. The three Samuel brothers - Claude and Otho at Wellington Branch and Edward at Head Office – all served overseas with NZEF and contributed almost 10 years to the war effort. Claude died in a Prisoner of War camp. His two siblings survived the war. Thirty-nine bank officers were recognized by King George and/or the Secretary of State for War for their gallantry. Fourteen received a Military Cross, ten a Military Medal, with one receiving both the MC and MM. A further ten were Mentioned in Despatches. The highest honour was an Order of the British Empire being awarded to Captain Charles Ingram GOSSAGE. Second Lieutenant Frederick Edwin ASHBY was however awarded a Military Cross and bar (two Military Crosses) for displaying gallantry, courage and remarkable skill while under fire. The longest serving officer was Warrant Officer (1st Class) Herbert / Hubert Frame WILSON who served five years and 257 days and was awarded a Military Medal for gallant conduct. The four INGPEN brothers (Norman (Norm), Military Medal, Frank, Ernest and Spencer) together contributed at least 10 years’ service to the war effort.

The first bank officers to undertake overseas service were members of the Main Body that sailed for Samoa (now Western Samoa) on or about 15 August 1914, less than a fortnight after declaration of war. Within a matter of days troops were also embarking for Egypt. At least two men were members of the Royal Navy reserve. Four men (two from Dunedin branch) joined the Royal Flying Corps and two were killed – one while training in England and the other was shot down over Italy by an enemy aircraft. Several bank officers had a sibling or siblings fighting with the Australian Imperial Force while one had a brother with the Canadian Forces. A large number (over 50) of men who returned were physically and/or psychologically harmed in the war and were unable to resume their careers with BNZ so resigned / retired and opted for a life on the land. Those maimed retired on a pension. Kenneth Walter Aimer, brother of 2nd Lieutenant George Edmond Vernon AIMER, Royal Flying Corps and formerly of BNZ Auckland, was a partner in Grierson, Aimer & Draffin, Architects whose design for the future Auckland War Memorial Museum was accepted in 1922. A small number of officers lived and worked in Kaikoura. Several were born in the town. While some began their careers in the coastal settlement made famous in the 1800s for its whaling station and in more recent times for whale watching. They include ABRAHAM, ABSOLUM, BARKER, BOYD (2), THOMPSON, VEITCHW When edited, revisedW the above will be the basis of an introduction to my final work.

Also see website: www.ww100.govt.nz

INDEX – Names and Branches at time of enlistment * indicates brothers.

NEW ZEALAND ABBOT, Gavin Melville – Taneatua ABRAHAM, Ronald Charles – Palmerston North ABRAHAM, William Percival - Kaikoura ABSOLUM, Norman William Leslie – Ngaruawahia (also Paeroa) A’COURT, Charles Harold - Hawera ADAMS, Arthur - Otautau AIMER, George Edmond Vernon – Auckland ALLEN, Charles Robert Gerrard - Invercargill ALLEN, Kenneth Hubert - Gisborne ALLRIGHT, L N – Thames ANDREWS, Lionel Edward Alfred - Wellington APPLEBY, Douglas – Christchurch ARCHER, Roy Stenning Tremaine – Featherston ARMSTRONG, David Cecil – Te Aro (Wellington) ARMSTRONG, Hugh Crossie - Raetihi ASHBY, Frederick Edwin - Pahiatua ASHLEY, Lawrence Lyttleton – Christchurch ASHWELL, William Rowland - Geraldine ASPINALL, Henry Ratcliffe – Dunedin BACON, Charles Law - Waihi BAGNALL, Lemuel Alan Weston – Auckland BAKER, H J – Thames BAKEWELL, William Levenet Chadwick - Feilding BANNERMAN, Wilfred Elles – Dunedin South BARGH, John – Patea BARGROVE, William Charles Arthur - Waipukurau BARKER, Alfred Charles – Auckland BARKER, Percival Chilman – Kaikoura BARNARD, Joseph William - Takaka BARR, Alan Dallas - Picton BARR, Lennox McMillan Gordon - Dunedin BARRON, Arthur Robert – Dunedin BARTHOLOMEW, Hector Thomas – Feilding BARTON, Ernest Onslow – Rongotea BATH, Leslie Atherton – Wellington BAXTER, Eric Kenneth (Jack) – Te Awamutu BEACH, John Allen – Hamilton BEAUCHAMP, Herbert Rolf Haultain - Timaru BELL, Arthur Stanley - Riverton BELL, George Norman - Dunedin BENGE, Arnold Hereward – Auckland BENNETT, Stacey Ernest - Raetihi

BENNETTO, William Francis – Gore BERRY, Reginald Alfred - Rotorua BIBBY, Robert Edward – Palmerston North BILKEY, Norman Trevor - Pukekohe BILLING, Francis (also Frances) Henry – Ohura BIRD, Kenneth Huia – Westport BIRD, Leslie Bertram – Eltham BLACKBURNE, Noel Churchill – Feilding BLAIR, Glen - Waiuku BLENNERHASSETT, Arthur Reginald (brother of H E) - Taihape BLENNERHASSETT, Henry Elliott (brother of A R) – Lyttleton BLENNERHASSETT, Walter - Wanganui BOGUE, Thomas Patrick - Dunedin BONGARD, Stanley – Auckland BOURKE, Eric Manson – Auckland BOWDEN, Harold Leslie - Rakaia BOYD, Henry Richard (brother of T G) Gisborne BOYD, Thomas George (brother of H R) - Stratford BREEZE, Cyril Henry – Christchurch BRIGHT, John William - Wellington BROWNELL, Eric Tasman – Christchurch BRUCE, Harry John - Morrinsville BRYANT, William – Dargaville BURT, Phillip George - Eltham CAIRNS, George – Wellington (Head Office) CALDWELL, Gilbert Comyn - Taihape CALLENDER, Clement Cyril – Christchurch CAMPBELL, Claude – Wellington (Head Office) CAMPBELL, Cyril Alexis – Te Aro (Wellington) CARMINE, Lionel James – Greytown CARTER, Oscar Weldon – Newton (Auckland) CHALMERS, Henry Ralph Harvey – Auckland CHAMBERS, Lawrence Dudley - Masteron CHAMBERS, William Wyman – Masterton (also Wellington) CHANEY, Walter St Clair – Auckland CHRYSTAL, William Livingston(e) - Wellington CLARK, George Layton – Auckland CLARK, James Patterson - Thames CLARK, Percy Macquarie – Foxton CLARKSON, Eric William – Palmerston North CLAYTON-GREENE, Eric Freeman - Hamilton CLIFFORD, Philip Montague – Auckland CLIFTON, Arthur Thomas - Naseby CLOUSTON, Noel Balfour – Blenheim COGAN, Ernest Desmond – Geraldine COLLIER, Eris Kells - Waitara COOKE, Alexander Harley - Queenstown COOKE, Arthur Charles Darwin – Auckland COOPER, Francis William - Wellington COOTE, Francis Edmond - Wellington CORBETT, Harry – Auckland CORNEY, Clarence Keith – Palmerston North CORRIGAN, Harold Albert - Motu COWAN, Sydney Francis - Invercargill COWEY, Edward Athelstan – Hokitika COWIE, Ronald Leslie - Petone CRAIGIE, John Bruce – Dunedin North CRAY, Donald - Raetihi CRICHTON, Arthur William - Dunedin CULLEN, Ernest Gibson - Hastings CURRIE, Edward - Dunedin DALDY, Edward Vincent - Carterton DALY, Martin – Akaroa DANIEL, Matthew James - Kaikohe DAVIDSON, Eric Layzell – Bluff/Invercargill DAVIS, Sydney Grey - Nelson DEMPSTER, Bruce Gillies – Eltham DE RIDDER, Harold Clarence – Petone DEWHIRST, Francis - Waitara DICKIN, Henry George - Kaitaia DIGBY, Merchant Ward – Ashburton DOIDGE, Herbert – Auckland DOUGLASS, Leslie Wingfield – Dunedin DOWNEY, John Joseph Esmond - Taumarunui DROWER, Mark Linden – Auckland DRURY, George Goprdon de Courcy - Christchurch DUFLOU (also DU FLOU), Leopold Louis Jack – Auckland DUNCAN, William Elder - Dunedin

DYKES, James Gordon – Auckland EARLY, Frederick Wayland – New Plymouth EDMISTON, Ernest Archie – Dunedin EDWARDS, Cedric Aroha – Rotorua EDWARDS, Victor Clive Stuart – Te Aro (Wellington) EILERS, Albert Frederick – Featherston ELLIOT, Alexander Noel - Ngaruawahia ELLIS, Charles Henry – Auckland ELLIS, Frederick Allen – Thames FAIR, Charles Patrick – Wellington (Head Office) (also Wesport). FAIRGRAY, James Douglas - Auckland FEE, Leonard Harold – Christchurch FELDWICK, Leslie – Gore FERGUSON, Alexander James - Wellington FERGUSON, Douglas Gray – Auckland FISHER, Alfred Augustus – Christchurch FLEMING, John Forbes Menzies – Waitara FLYNN, John Walter - Wellington FORBES, John – Tokomaru Bay FORGIE, Malcolm Burns – Auckland FOW, George Thomas - Gore FRANKLIN, John Martin – Eltham FREEMAN, Frank Swancott - Shannon FREYNE, James – Hawera FULDSETH, William John - Dunedin FULLER, Richard John – Motu GARDINER, Frederick Charles – Te Aro (Wellington) GARTH, Henry Easton - Motueka GARVEY, Charles -Hunterville GEORGE, Dudley – Eltham GIBLIN, Louis Hubert - Nelson GIBSON, McKenzie – Greymouth GILBERT, Alfred Edward – Kohukohu (Hokianga) GILMOUR, Arthur Martin – Ashburton GLASSON, Henry John Herbert - Tapanui GOSSAGE, Charles Ingram - Dunedin GOULD, John Glen – Auckland GOW, Norman – Te Araroa GOW, William Douglas – Napier (SEAD-)GOWING, Cyril Augustus S - Wellington GRAY, Norman Melville - Waitara GREEN, Norman Nicholas Pennefather – Auckland GREENE, E F C (see Eric Freeman CLAYTON-GREENE) – Hamilton GREGORY, John Albert Edward – Te Puke GREIG, Leslie Alexander - Invercargill GREVILLE, Charles Edward – Auckland GRIERSON, Arthur Robert – Gisborne GRIFFIN, Horace Fennel – Mangaweka GRINLINTON, Robert James - Thames GUDGEON, John Edmund – Christchurch GUINNESS, Arthur Hindmarsh – Ohura/Pongaroa GULLIVER-CRADWICK, J F Leonard – Christchurch – possibly Leonard James F born 12 Jan 1886. GUNION, Alan Douglas - Taihape GUY, Arthur Lawrence – Otaki Railway HAIR, Leslie Marks – Manaia HARDEN, Eric William - Whangarei HARGREAVES, Harold Verney - Methven HARPER, William - Dunedin HARRISON, John Fisher – Carterton HART, George Welbourne - Wellington HARTY, Lennard Power – Newton (Auckland) HARTY, Ulrich Kew – Auckland HARVEY, Vivian Lancelot Naismith – Wellington (Head Office) HAY, Arthur - Oamaru HAYBITTLE, Willam George – Feilding HEENAN, Brian Esbert Baddeley – Hamilton HENNINGS, Christian – Hamilton HICKEY, John Sidney – New Plymouth HINTON, Harry Ross – Helensville HIRST, Samuel Leonard Brambley – Kaikohe HITCHON, Hilton George – Milton HOBY, Stanley – New Plymouth HOLDEN, John Alexander - Hamilton HOULT, Eric Charles – Feilding HOWDEN, David Owen – Hamilton HOWELL, George Horatio - Marton

HOWIE, William Gladstone Invercargill HUME, Kenneth Gordon - Kaitaia HURLEY, Daniel Reinhold – Feilding HUTCHINSON, R – Ohura 3 x Robert on Archway – which one? INGPEN, Norman Lockyer – Auckland INKSTER, Edwin Clifford - Featherston INSTONE, Percy Hudson – Dunedin IRONMONGER, Alan Lovell - Martinborough JAGO, Gilbert Edward - Eltham JEFFERIES, Frederick Peebles D – Auckland JOHNSTON, Alexander Gilchrist - Westport JOHNSTONE, Arthur Lawrence - Waitara JOLLY, James - Motu JORDAN, Leslie Ray – Auckland JORDAN, Raynor Gladstone – Christchurch KANE, James – Milton KENNEDY, William Roy – Te Aro (Wellington) KERRY, Ernest Victor – Carterton KILBRIDE, James Herbert – Morrinsville KING, Hubert Leigh – Oamaru KING, James Morton - Winton KING, Thomas Leslie – New Plymouth KIRKBY, Ernest William – Carterton KROON, William James – Dunedin LAIRD, William Henry - Hunterville LAMONT, Marshall Leonard – Auckland LA ROCHE, Cyril – Feilding LATHAM, Harold Bowden - Pahiatua LAW, Allan Edward - Dannevirke LAWSON, Alan/Allan Wallace (also known as Al(l)an WALLACE-LAWSON - Auckland LEE, Edward Ivanhoe Woodhouse – Ashburton LEYS, James Robert Ruxton – Wellington (Head Office) LINDSAY, Hamilton - Waipawa LITTLE, Leonard Hawkins – Ngaruawahia LITTLE, Reginald Samuel – Raetihi LLOYD, Thomas Harold - Wellington LUCAS, John Garnet - Methven LYONS, Lewis Arthur - Raetihi LYONS, Lionel Ernest – Hastings McALISTER, Brian – Eketahuna McALISTER, Hugh Sarsfield – Wellington (Head Office) McALLEY, Robert Gilchrist - Hunterville McCARTHY, Justin Charles – Hamilton McCARTHY, John Kingsley - Queenstown McCLURE, Wilfred – Geraldine McDERMOTT, Hugh Kenneth – Kaponga McDONALD, Charles Vernon - Marton McDONALD, Ronald Stuart - Martinborough MacGIBBON, Ian Thomas Johnston – Christchurch McGREGOR, R H – Gore McGREGOR, Robert Ivan Cumming – Mataura McHATTIE, Clarence John – Tokomaru Bay McINNES, Horace Alexander – Te Aro (Wellington) MacINTYRE, Ewen – Taihape MacKAY, Claud - Wellington MacKAY, David Fergusson – Auckland McLAUGHLIN, Robert – Gisborne MacLEAN, Kenrick Charles - Hamilton MacLENNAN, George Galbraith – Gore McLENNAN, James Roy - Taneatua McPHERSON, A A – Foxton MAJOR, Frederick George – Wellington (Head Office) MALCOLM, Robert John - Wellington MANCHESTER, Alfred Robert - Waimate MANN, James - Hamilton MARCROFT, Frank Allen - Hamilton MARKLAND, Leonard Roy – Foxton MARSHALL, Charles Victor – Dunedin MARSHALL, Herbert Vincent Fowler – Kaikohe MARSHALL, William – Queenstown MASON, Howard George - Wellington MAUGER, Philip Timaru – Geraldine MEULI, Lorenz Wilfred – Manaia MICHIE, Grahame Forbes – Wellington (Head Office) MILLEN, Roy Gibson – Timaru MILLER, David Olliver – Wellington (Head Office) MILLS, John Claud – Te Kuiti

MILROY, William John Sawyers – Dunedin MITCHELL, Thomas N – Dunedin MOEN, Erck – Milton MONSON, George Brenchley - Takaka MONTEITH, John Hubert – Hastings MOODY, Robert Henry Ernest - Waimate MORESBY, Fairfax – Auckland MORGAN, Henry Charles - Gisborne MORONEY, Joseph Patrick – Dunedin MORPETH, Robert Nicoll - Thames MORRIS, Daniel Stewart - Hunterville MORRIS, Frank Ernest – Gore MORTON, George Berkeley – Te Puke MOSS, Claude Clement - Christchurch MOSS, Frank Harper – Eketahuna MOSSOP, Charles Agnew – Gisborne MOWAT, Patrick Renwick - Wanganui MUIR, Roy Neville - Napier MUIRHEAD, William Nichol – Dunedin MURPHY, Arthur Dillon - Wanganui MURPHY, George Ernest – Helensville MURPHY, James Hamilton - Hamilton MURPHY, Paul Joseph - Napier MURRAY, Alfred Donald - Motu NAISMITH, Arthur Gordon – Gore NEWELL, D’Arcy Roycroft – New Plymouth NICHOLS, Robert Brook – Greytown NORGROVE, Norman Rupert - Waiuku NORRIE, Robert Coulquhoun - Otautau NORTON, Stanley Thomas – Kohukohu (Hokianga) O’CONNELL, John Granfield – Palmerston (Otago) O’DONAHOO, Henry Arthur O’Neill – Wellington O’DRISCOLL, Francis Joseph - Wellington OGILVY, Lionel Victor – Auckland O’ROURKE, Joseph Humphrey Walter – Otaki Railway OSBORNE, George – Masterton O’SULLIVAN, John – Opotiki OXLEY, Francis Divens – Stratford PARKINSON, Harold Herbert – Wellington (Head Office) PARSON, Albert Charles - Christchurch PARSON, Lionel Henry – Christchurch PATERSON, Archibald Aird - Picton PATERSON, Hugh Bertram – Balclutha PATTERSON, William James Campbell – Timaru PAYZE, Edgar Herbert - Waimate PEARSON, Neville Walker - Foxton PENDER, Francis James – Alexandra PENNEY, James William Roy – Opotiki PEPPER, Edgar Septon - Taumarunui PERCY, Leonard Murray – Dunedin PICKETT, Stanley John Ponsonby – Invercargill PICOT, Ernest Horton – Kawhia (also Wellington (Head Office) PIKE, Hartley Emmerson – Greytown PILCHER, Arthur Mervyn – Wellington (Head Office) PINFOLD, Cyril Morley – Dunedin POLAND, Hugh Francis – Hamilton POPPELWELL, John Guy Bell – Hastings POTT, Gideon Frederick – Kaponga POWELL, Frank Ewington - Waihi PRESCOTT, Arthur Joseph – Auckland PRICE, Henry Ivon Charles - Wellington PURDIE, Alexander - Christchurch PURDIE, William Alexander – Christchurch PYKE, Leslie Francis Vincent – Mangaweka QUINN, William John – Thames RABBITS, Albert Gordon – Wellington (Head Office) RABONE, Samuel Dudley - Wellington RAINE, Harry – Palmerston North RAINE, Percy – Hunterville RANKIN, Allan Robert C - Timaru RAY, Francis - Dannevirke RAY, Kenneth – Auckland READING, Harold Gordon - Levin READY, Robert Gordon – Invercargill REDGRAVE, Cecil Edgar - Takaka REES, Ernest Owen Leslie – Auckland REEVE, Llewellyn William Pearce* -Petone REEVE, William Alfred Campbell* – Auckland

RICE, Leslie Samuel Clarence - Wellington RICHARDSON, Arthur Wallace - Pahiatua RICHMOND, John Thomas – Buckley (also Gisborne) RICHTER, Ola Gordon Conrad - Wellington RIGG, Bernard Leslie – Wellington RISHWORTH, Cyril Lackland - Wellington ROBERTS, John Macintosh – Te Puke ROBERTS, Lester Henwood – Christchurch ROBERTSON, Matthew Alexander – Gore ROSKRUGE, Kenneth Louis Kempthorne – Napier ROWAN, Walter - Winton RUDKIN, Edgar Ralph – Hokitika RUSSELL, Douglas Warren - Lyttleton ST GEORGE, John Clarence – Invercargill SAMUEL, Claude Montefiore* – Wellington SAMUEL, Edward Miles* – Wellington (Head Office) SAMUEL, Otho Max* - Wellington SARE, Edward Cecil - Hamilton SAVAGE, Lewis Bristow – Auckland SCOLON, Edward Archibald Hugh – Dunedin North SCOTT, Frank Douglas Hereward – Christchurch SCOTT, Lindsay Mackie – Dunedin SCOTT-SMITH, Thomas George – Featherston SCOULAR, John Lamb - Timaru SEDCOLE, Ernest James - Pahiatua SHAW, Norman Leslie – Dunedin SHAW, William Forster – Ngaruawahia SHORNEY, Kenneth Elton - Wellington SHORTT, Frederick Desmond – Lower Hutt, Wellington SINCLAIR, Roy MacKenzie – Roxburgh SKEEN, Reginald William – Takapau (also Waipukura) SMITH, Alexander Laing - Gore SMITH, David Lionel – Feilding SMITH, Francis Mervyn - Reefton SMITH, G A – Dunedin SMITH, John Charlton – Wellington SOUNESS, Lance Westby – Balclutha SPEDDING, Eric Claude – Dunedin SPEIGHT, Harold Ellison – Wellington (Head Office) SPENCER, Lewis Harcourt – Cromwell SPRY, Theodore James - Kawhia STAPLETON, John Philip - Dunedin STAPP, Vernon Lionel Gordon – Christchurch STEEL, Gordon Newman – Te Kuiti STEVENS, Ralf/Ralph Wilfrid - Raetihi STEVENSON, Charles - Milton STEWART, Albert John – Dunedin STEWART, Charles Gordon - Hastings STEWART, Tom Hickey Morrison - Hamilton STITT, Alexander Murray - Opunake STONE, Lindsay Burrell – Auckland STRACHEY, Richard Clive – Christchurch STRAIN, Eric Norman – Port Chalmers SUMMERS, Mark - Wyndham SURMAN, Henry Rowland – Auckland SUTHERLAND, Norman George - Inglewood SUTTON, Percy John Carter – Helensville TALBERT, William Caithness – New Plymouth TAPPER, Charles John - Dunedin TARLTON, Eustace Maurice – Dunedin TAYLOR, Albert Victor – Riverton TAYLOR, G – Te Awamutu TAYLOR, John Malcolm - Roxburgh TAYLOR, Lindon - Roxburgh TEER, Henry Thomas – Dargaville THOMPSON, Arthur Claude - Kaikoura THOMSON, Arthur Maxton – Hawera THORP, James - Ohura THURSTON, Francis Xavier - Ngaruawahia TILSTON, Gopsill Montague – Auckland TIMPANY, Thomas Archibald – Dunedin TREACY, Henry William - Oxford TREANOR, Francis James – Auckland TROUTBECK, Ewan Stanley - Wairoa TULLOCH, Andrew Hay – Pahiatua TULLY, Vincent James - Wanganui TWOMEY, Brian Leo - Naseby VEITCH, Christopher Gorvett Clement - Hamilton

VIRTUE, William Arnold – Christchurch VON STURMER, Karl Bismarck - Hamilton WAIT, John Reginald – Christchurch WALCOTT, Eric Henry - Dunedin WALLACE-LAWSON, Allan or Alan – Auckland WANKLYN, Stanley Herbert – Greytown WARD, Horace Langford - Wellington WARD, Sidney Lancelot Evans - Tauranga WARD, Sidney Palmer - Stratford WARNE, John Leonard - Reefton WATKINS, John Melvyn – Christchurch WEST, George Manson - Wellington WHITCOMBE, Douglas James Aubrey – Christchurch WHITE, George Harold - Wellington WHITE, J P – Dunedin. Is he Jesse Pascal Wilson?? WHITELOCK, Francis Randal - Wyndham WHITTINGTON, Cyril Ernest – Palmerston North WILDERMOTH, John Layton – Invercargill WILLIAMS, Henry Antone - Waiuku WILLIAMS, Stephen Barker – Palmerston North WILLIS, Alan Newcombe de Laval – Cambridge WILSON, Colin Robert Owen – Te Kuiti WILSON, Donald Sydney – New Plymouth WILSON, Herbert Frame/Frane. (Name also appears as Hubert Frame WILSON in Military Personnel Files on Archway) - Dunedin WILSON, J W – Auckland WILSON, Murdoch McLeod - Napier WILSON, Sydney Angus - Hamilton WILTSHIRE, Frank William – Auckland WINCHESTER, Edward Alexander - Greytown WOLSTENHOLME, Harold Wiremu – Dunedin WORTH, Conrad Haviland – Wellington (Head Office) WRIGHT, Eric Harding – Auckland WRIGHT, Frederick Blake – Lower Hutt, Wellington WYNNE, William Cooper – Dunedin YELVERTON, Barry Augustus - Raetihi YELVERTON, Hermann Stratton – Balclutha (also at Clinton) LONDON BRANCH ARMSTRONG, W G B, born 24 April 1885. BASAN, Guy David, born 7 August 1900. CASS, John Ernest Thomas, born 18 November 1892. CLEMENS, R T, born 11 April 1893. DANCE, E, born 11 February 1884. DRAKE, R N, born 16 May 1896. FORBES, J, born 28 May 1889. GOWDEY, Lawrence Cragg, born 10 July 1894. Died 1972, Surrey, England. HERRING, J, born 26 November 1888. HILLS, W E, born 19 June 1889. HOPWOOD, L E W, born 18 April 1895. HOWCROFT, C E, born 25 February 1896. HUTCHINSON, F B, born 18 April 1894. HUTCHINSON, L H W, born 20 December 1894. JEFFERY, W B, born 12 April 1895. McKENZIE, L E W, born 30 September 1895. McKENZIE, R A, born 30 September 1897. MOORE, Lionel William Bentinck, born 2 July 1896. NEWCOMB(E), W E, born 9 April 1886. NORDEN, W A, born 17 June 1900. PRICE, W L, born 7 July 1899. ROBINSON, M, born 26 April 1893. SCOTT, J M, born 16 January 1886. SCOTT, P D, born 11 March 1890. SEARLE, Percy, born 24 December 1876. SHIELD, T W K, born 30 October 1885. WATSON, R, born 18 November 1894. WYATT, A H, born 18 July 1899. YOUNGS, Frederick William Thomas, born 19 February 1880. SUVA, FIJI ACKLAND, P B, born 7 March 1893. HANGER, Robert, born 20 December 1887. SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA FRASER, T H, no details. NASH, Harold John, born 6 September 1995. SMALL, Arthur Frederick Burrow, born 25 February 1887. SMALL, H B, born 5 December 1893.

Dunedin was struggling to provide basic services even before gold fever boosted its population from 2000 in 1860 to 20,000 by 1864. After one citizen condemned the water supply as ‘only fit for sewage’, the Town Board passed the Dunedin Waterworks Company Guaranteed Interest Ordinance of 1863 to encourage investors to build a new water supply. The Dunedin Waterworks Company Ltd did the job but so upset consumers with its charges that the Dunedin City Council took over the dam in 1875. After selecting Ross Creek in Woodhaugh Valley, engineer Ralph Donkin began supervising builder David Proudfoot’s work in August 1865. Donkin designed the dams, number one (23 m high) and number two (10 m), and the photogenic valve tower, enhanced by its alternating bands of Port Chalmers breccia and Leith Valley andesite. The dams have a puddled clay core and hold 225 million litres. By the time work finished the company had replaced Donkin with first James Balfour and then John McGregor. The dam was opened on 9 December 1867 as the ‘Royal Albert Reservoir’, named after Queen Victoria’s late husband. That name did not stick but although Ross Creek has had occasional problems with leakage, it was until relatively recently one of only three working 19th-century water supply dams left in New Zealand. In 2013-14 work commenced on a $2.1 million strengthening of the old earth embankment, to be followed by the provision of a new pumping station. Although Dunedin now has other reservoirs, Deep Creek and Deep Stream, the restored Ross Creek will still be an important asset to the network. The reservoir, dams, and picturesque valve tower have a New Zealand Historic Places Trust Level I classification. It is also a pleasant recreational reserve, reached either from Woodhaugh Gardens (at the northern end of George Street) or off Burma Road in Maori Hill. You can walk around the lakes and admire the dams and the stone and concrete-lined side channels.

Ross Creek Reservoir and its valve tower, photographed sometime between

the 1880s and the 1930s.

The tower was constructed c.1865-1867.

Ross Creek Reservoir

Answer to our photo

question on page one - Caversham railway station

on the new line to Mosgiel -

1910.

The Caversham station

closed in 1962.

How many of you remember

using it?

HOW DUNEDIN’S STREETS AND SUBURBS GOT THEIR NAMES

THE INFLUENCE OF THE VALPY FAMILY 1. Richard Valpy (1696-1774) married Elizabeth Anley 2. Richard Valpy (1726- ) married Catherine Chevallier 3. Richard Valpy (1754-1836) Headmaster of Reading Grammar School married 1. (1778) Martha Cornelius (1755-1780); married 2. (1782) Mary Benwell (1760-1836) 4. Richard Valpy (1783- ) 4. Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854) 4. Gabriel Valpy (1788-1872) 4. Anthony Blagrove Valpy (1790-1871) 4. William Henry Valpy (1793-1852) married (1828) Caroline Jeffreys (1804-1884) 5. Ellen Penelope Valpy (1827-1904) 5. Caroline Arabella Valpy (1828-1852) 5. Catherine Henrietta Elliot Valpy (1829-1919) 5. William Henry Valpy (1832-1911) 5. Arabella Jeffreys Valpy (1833-1910) 5. Juliet Anna Valpy (1835-1911) 4. Catherine Elizabeth Blanche Valpy (1796-1873) married Philip Filleul (1793-1875) 4. Francis Edward Jackson Valpy (1797-1882) married Elizabeth Pollen, d of John 4. Mary Valpy (1797- ) 4. Penelope Arabella Valpy (1802- )

William Henry Valpy (1793 - 25 September 1852) was an early settler in Dunedin, farming in the area now occupied by the suburb of St Clair. Valpy was the son of English educationalist Richard Valpy and spent much of his early life in Calcutta, where he worked as a judge and for the East India Company. He retired to England in 1836, but poor health prompted him to immigrate to New Zealand with his

family. He arrived in Dunedin in early 1849 aboard “The Ajax”. At the time he was regarded as the wealthiest man in the colony. Valpy named his two large farm properties, "Caversham" and "The Forbury" after places connected with his family in and around the town of Reading, in Berkshire, England. The names survive today as the names of Dunedin's suburbs of Caversham and Forbury, and a road in the suburb of St Clair, close to the former site of the Forbury estate buildings, is named Valpy Street. Valpy was heavily involved in local politics. However as he was Church of England (Anglican) he came under strenuous attack from the Scottish Presbyterian community of early Dunedin. The strain of this conflict, along with Valpy's continuing poor health, took their toll, and Valpy died in Dunedin in September 1852, only three and a half years after he had arrived in New Zealand.

His Children: Ellen Penelope Valpy (1827-1904) Ellen Valpy was born in Hummeripore (Hamirpur), India, on 12 February 1827. After her father's retirement from working in India she spent a year with her family travelling through Europe, receiving tuition from an Italian governess and drawing master. She accompanied her parents to Dunedin in 1849. At the family home, “The Forbury” on 15 January 1852 Ellen Valpy married her eldest cousin, Henry Jeffreys. Henry Jeffreys had property in New South Wales, Australia and the couple moved there after the death of William Valpy in September 1852. At this time Ellen Jeffreys was expecting their first child so they delayed their voyage. A daughter, Caroline Emma, was born in Dunedin in January 1853 and in March 1853 the Jeffreys family and a servant sailed for Sydney. Ellen and Henry stayed in Australia until 1860. Several children were born and died during their time in Australia but when they returned to Dunedin in June 1860, there was only one surviving son, Henry Arthur. The following January another son, Edmond Francis, was born in Oamaru. In 1863 Ellen Jeffreys was widowed. She continued to live in Oamaru near her mother and some of her sisters until 1873. In that year her son Henry was admitted to the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum. Ellen Jeffreys moved with her second son Edmond to Dunedin to be near her son Henry. Her son Edmond died in 1887 and Ellen Jeffreys's sole source of income was property to the value of £360 in Oamaru. To supplement her income she rented a studio in which to paint and teach pupils. She became quite a talented artist and some of her paintings have survived and are in the Otago Settlers Museum and the Hocken Library. Ellen Jeffreys had evangelical beliefs which derived from her education and upbringing. She joined her sisters Arabella Valpy and Catherine Fulton in a variety of charitable schemes and movements including the Band of Hope Coffee Rooms, the Salvation Army and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She died a Baptist at Mornington, on 8 September 1904. Caroline Arabella Valpy (1828-1852) Caroline Arabella Valpy was born on 26 February 1828 in Cawnpore, Uttar Pradesh, India. She did not immigrate to New Zealand with the rest of the Valpy family. She married Dr Henry Egerton Hensley on 15 June 1848 at Dover, England. She died on 28 November 1854 leaving four children aged from 8 months to five years.

William Henry Valpy

Catherine Henrietta Elliot Valpy (1829-1919) Catherine Henrietta Elliot Valpy was born on 19 December 1829, in England. She accompanied her parents during 1845 and 1846 when the Valpy family toured Europe. She arrived in Dunedin with her parents in 1849. On 22 September 1852 Catherine Valpy married James Fulton, at a joint wedding with her sister Juliet Valpy and William Mackworth. The ceremony took place at her parents' home, The Forbury, Dunedin. James Fulton held land in West Taieri, called initially Ravensbourne, and later Ravenscliffe, to distinguish it from the West Harbour suburb of Dunedin. Except for brief absences, Catherine Fulton lived at West Taieri for the rest of her life. Not long after her marriage she and James Fulton joined the Presbyterian faith at West Taieri, where they took leading places in the congregation. Weekly church services were held for many years in their house, and Catherine Fulton started and taught a weekly Sunday school and Bible class which continued to meet under her guidance for nearly 70 years. Throughout her marriage Catherine Fulton kept daily diaries in which she attempted to record the fine detail of her daily life. The surviving diaries, which cover the years from 1857 to 1919, reveal the trials and successes of pioneering life. Catherine Fulton was best known for her musical talent. She regularly played whatever instrument was available at the local church services. Catherine Fulton's beliefs led her to become involved in various social, political and religious movements. She organised and chaired the Tract Depot for a number of years, and started the Band of Hope Coffee Rooms which she helped run with her sisters Ellen Jeffreys and Arabella Valpy. She was deeply concerned for the moral and social welfare of the young people in the Otago Benevolent Institution and the Otago Industrial School, which she and her husband supported. In May 1885 Catherine Fulton helped found the Dunedin branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and was its first president. Catherine Fulton's political sympathies were echoed by her husband, who, as a prominent politician, supported women's suffrage and the temperance cause. Her unmarried daughter, Caroline Fulton, was also a tireless worker for temperance, women's franchise and evangelical church organisations. After James Fulton died in 1891, Catherine Fulton managed the stud farm at Ravenscliffe, and continued to pursue her many interests until her own death on 6 May 1919. She is buried in the West Taieri Cemetery at Outram. William Henry Valpy (1832-1911) William Valpy was born on 8 January 1932 in Calcutta, India. He was the only son in the Valpy family. He married Penelope Caroline Every. She was the daughter of artist Simon Every, who lived at Silver Acres in Andersons Bay. The street beside Silver Acres is now known as Every Street. William Valpy farmed at Horse Shoe Bush and Waihola. He died on the 1 January 1911 in Oamaru from head injuries he received in an accident. Arabella Jeffreys Valpy (1833-1910) Arabella Valpy was born on 7 October 1833 at Benares, Uttar Pradesh, India. She did not marry and died on 18 January 1910 in Dunedin. She is buried with her mother in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin. In April 1882 she wrote to William Booth in London asking him to send some of his officers to New Zealand, which was then in an economic depression with accompanying poverty and unrest. Arabella Valpy had read of the work which William Booth had begun among similarly distressed people in the East End of London in 1865, a movement which led to the establishment of the Salvation Army. In November 1882 two officers, Captain Wright and Lieutenant Pollard, both under 20 years of age, were commissioned to found the Salvation Army in New Zealand. (At the same meeting other Salvationists were sent to the United States, India, Canada, Sweden, and South Africa.) With one or two helpers recruited when they called at Melbourne, they arrived at Port Chalmers on 27 March 1883, where they were welcomed by a handful of supporters. Pollard hired the Temperance Hall in Dunedin for three years at £300 per annum. At this stage he had only 30 shillings in his pocket. The first meetings were held on Sunday, 1 April 1883, in the hall and at the fountain, Cargill's Monument in the Exchange, Dunedin. This meeting is now marked by a plaque as the spot where the Army held their first meeting. Juliet Anna Owen Valpy (1835-1911) Juliet Valpy was born on 23 August 1835 in Sikraul Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. She married twice. Her first marriage was in 1852 to William Mackworth from Melbourne, Australia. He died leaving her with one son. Her second husband was in 1858 to Bayly Pike of Elephant Hill, Waitaki. Initially they lived at Carishbrook near Forbury where several children were born. However the marriage failed and Pike was sued by the Valpy family for the return of Juliet’s inheritance. Juliet died on 9 April 1911. She is buried with her father, William Henry Valpy in the Southern Cemetery. Originally William Valpy was buried in a private cemetery at The Forbury in 1852 but was disinterred from that cemetery and reburied in the Southern Cemetery in 1890.

William Henry Valpy’s grave in the Southern Cemetery.

Juliet Pike nee Valpy is also buried here.

William Valpy’s wife, Caroline Valpy’s grave, in the

Southern Cemetery. Arabella Valpy is also buried here.

ADDITIONAL WAR MEMORIALS

MILLERS FLAT

In the Dunedin Family History Group newsletter, July 2013 we printed information on Millers Flat including their war memorial. We have just now found the memorial baths at Millers Flat also includes a roll of honour for men in the district who died in the Second World War. The plaques list men from Miller Flat, Ettrick and Raes Junction.

ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THOS MEN

WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE ON ACTIVE SERVICE

1939-1945 WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

MILLERS FLAT C. BATCHELOR

W. O. CHIRNSIDE A. EATON J. McRAE

S. MOSLEY A. STONE J. WALLER ETTRICK

F. J. WEATHERALL ISLAND BLOCK

R. TAMBLYN RAES JUNCTION

D. BROWN

So who were those who died?

MILLERS FLAT BATCHELOR, Ferdinand Henry Charles, 2nd Lieutenant 590505

Appears on war memorial as C. Batchelor Son of Ferdinand and Florence Batchelor, Dunedin Husband of Cecil Batchelor, Millers Flat later resided Timaru Armoured Brigade Died of wounds in Italy on 28 February 1944.

Name also appears on the new Roxburgh and the Millers Flat War

Memorials.

CHIRNSIDE, William Osborne, Private 17141 Son of William and Emily Chirnside, Balclutha 20 Infantry Battalion Killed in the Western Desert on 30 November 1941.

Name also appears on the Balclutha, the new Roxburgh and the

Millers Flat War Memorials.

EATON, Arthur, Sapper 16749 Son of Walter and Catherine Eaton, Waitahuna Husband of Mirla Eaton, Millers Flat New Zealand Engineers Killed in action in the Western Desert on 18 December 1942.


Memorial.

McRAE, John, Corporal 375169 Son of Malcolm and Mary McRae, Dunedin Enlisted at Millers Flat 23 Infantry Battalion Killed in Italy on 30 May, 1944.


Memorials.

MOSLEY, Stuart Edwin, Flight Sergeant NZ426106 Son of William and Agnes Mosley, Ravensbourne, Dunedin Royal New Zealand Air force 75 Squadron Killed in action in Germany on 5 October 1944.


Memorials.

STONE, Arthur, Private 399658 New Zealand Infantry Killed in the Pacific on 26 May 1944.


Memorials.

WALLER, John, Private 030060 Son of Benjamin and Mary Waller, Millers Flat 23 Infantry Battalion Killed in action in Italy on 7 January 1944.


Memorials.

ETTRICK

WEATHERALL, F. J. - Unable to identify

ISLAND BLOCK

TAMBLYN, Ronald William, Private 445791 Son of John and Bertha Tamblyn, Millers Flat 23 Infantry Battalion Killed in Italy on 22 July 1944.

Name also appears on the Miller Flat War Memorial and the new

Roxburgh War Memorial under the column for Island Bank.

RAES JUNCTION

BROWN, David, Private 269569 Son of Andrew and Elizabeth Brown, Rae’s Junction 22 Infantry Battalion Killed in action in Italy on 2 October 1944.

Name appears on the Millers Flat War Memorial and the new

Roxburgh War Memorial under the column for Raes Junction.

BANNOCKBURN

In the Dunedin Family History Group newsletter, March 2014 we printed information on Bannockburn including their war memorial.

We have just now found the memorial gates at the Bannockburn Domain include plaques dedicated to men from the Bannockburn and Nevis district who died in the First and Second World Wars.

ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR

LIVES 1914-1918

BANNOCKBURN J. CRABBE

K. W. COOPER G. B. COOPER J. W. GIBSON

W. S. MURRAY S. SMITH

R. S. SMITH R. JONES

NEVIS J. BEATTIE

D. DOW E. GEORGE

LEST WE FORGET

ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR

LIVES 1939-1945

BANNOCKBURN C. J. CAMPBELL

A. J. FRASER J. N. JOCELYN

J. F. LYNN

NEVIS T. MITCHELL R. MITCHELL

H. STRUTHERS R. MATHESON

LEST WE FORGET

So who were those who died?

BANNOCKBURN

1914 - 1918

COOPER, Andrew Winnick, Rifleman 53901

Appears on War Memorial as K. W. COOPER Son of late John and Mary Cooper, Bannockburn Husband of Sarah Cooper, Bannockburn NZEF New Zealand Rifle Brigade Killed in action at Havrincourt, France on 9 September 1918.

Name also appears on Bannockburn War Memorial

COOPER, George Begg, Private 9/1412 Son of John and Mary Cooper, Bannockburn NZEF Otago Mounted Rifles Died of disease in France on 8 December 1918.


CRABBE, James, Private 8/3224 Son of Mr J. Crabbe, Bannockburn NZEF Otago Infantry Battalion Killed in action in Ypres, Belgium on 12 October 1917.


GIBSON, James William, Private 42496 Son of Ellen and late James Gibson, Bannockburn NZEF Otago Infantry Regiment Killed in action at Ypres, Belgium on 12 October 1917.


JONES, Robert James, Sapper 4/1358 Son of William and Sarah Jones, Cromwell New Zealand Engineers Killed in action at Ypres, Belgium on 15 August 1917. MURRAY, William Scott, Rifleman 24/530 Son of Henry and Alice Murray, Bannockburn NZEF New Zealand Rifle Brigade Died of wounds in France on 8 February 1917.


SMITH, S. - Unable to identify this soldier.

SMITH, Robert Stanley, Trooper 9/83 Enlisted at Bannockburn NZEF Otago Mounted Rifles Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 6 or 7 August 1915.


1939 - 1945

CAMPBELL, Colin James, Flight Sergeant NZ403757 Son of Allan and Grace Campbell, Bannockburn Husband of Edna Campbell, Pembrokeshire, Wales Royal New Zealand Air Force 218 Squadron Killed on air operations in France on 12 March 1943.


FRASER, Austen Jackson, Major 12875 Son of Angus and Emma Fraser, Mosgiel Husband of Catherine Fraser, Picton 26 Infantry Battalion Killed in Italy on 17 March 1944.


JOCELYN, James Newbury, Signalman 22542 Son of Charles and Mary Jocelyn, Bannockburn New Zealand Corps of Signals Killed in Egypt on 18 July 1942.


LYNN, James Fleming, Gunner 61359 Son of William and Jemina Lynn, Bannockburn New Zealand Artillery Killed in Egypt on 16 July 1942.

Name also appears on Cromwell and the Bannockburn War

Memorial

NEVIS

1914-1918

BEATTIE, John Thomas, Lance Corporal 9/9 Son of J. J. and Caroline Beattie, Naseby Husband of Mrs V. Beattie, Roxburgh Soldier enlisted at Nevis NZEF Otago Mounted Rifles Killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 6 or 7 August 1915.

DOW, David, Bombardier 9/29 Son of Mr and Mrs. J. Dow, North Dunedin Soldier enlisted in Cromwell NZEF New Zealand Field Artillery Died of wounds in France on 17 September 1916

Name also appears on the North East Valley School War Memorial

GEORGE, Edwin, Rifleman, 25/631 Son of Walter and Elizabeth George, Naseby NZEF New Zealand Rifle Brigade Killed in action in Belgium on 7 June 1917.

1939-1945

MATHESON, Roderick McLeod, Private 9659 Native of Scotland. Soldier enlisted in Cromwell New Zealand Ordinance Corps Killed in Egypt on 2 June 1941.

MITCHELL, Robert William, Private 8514 Son of Edwin and Emily Mitchell, Dunedin 20 Infantry Battalion Died of wounds in Crete on 24 May 1941.

MITCHELL, George Thomas, Gunner 25693

Appears on the War Memorial as T. Mitchell Son of Edwin and Emily Mitchell, Dunedin New Zealand Artillery Killed in the Western Desert on 12 July 1942.

STRUTHERS, Henry Elijah, Private 13119 Son of John and Eliza Struthers, South Canterbury 26 Infantry Battalion Killed in the Western Desert on 2 November 1942.

Name also appears on the Albury War Memorial in South

Canterbury, the Omarama and Benmore District Roll of Honour and

the North Otago Second World War Memorial.

BANNOCKBURN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

ROLL OF HONOUR

Group member, Annette Napier, has also provided us with a

photograph of the Bannockburn Presbyterian Church Roll of

Honour board. Those who died are the same as on the Bannockburn

War Memorial and the Bannockburn Memorial Gates.

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