Saturday, 6 April 2013

Te Aroha War Memorial - World War One - Panel A

This is the first panel of the War Memorial in Te Aroha. I have linked each soldier to their respective pages at Auckland Museum's excellent Cenotaph database and to the Commonwealth War Grave Commission's database.

I have included photos of the soldiers; this is not complete, if you have a photo you would like to add please contact me.






Arthur Heather Aitken   34304  Private
Auckland Infantry Battalion
KIA 4 October 1917  Ypres, Belgium

Frank Bower Baine   12/2206  Private
Auckland Infantry Battalion
KIA 8 August 1915  Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli, Turkey

George Baker   34317  Private
Auckland Infantry Regiment
DOW 4 October 1917  Belgium


 Joseph Baker   52359  Rifleman
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
DOW 21 April 1918  France


George Anderson Bayne   10/2068  Private
Wellington Infantry Battalion
KIA 8 August 1915  Gallipoli, Turkey

Ronald James Bell   12/1148  Private
Auckland Infantry Battalion
KIA 25 April 1915  Gallipoli, Turkey

John Blythe    any information about this man would be gratefully received.

John Bougen   61507  Private
Wellington Infantry Regiment
DOW 1 September 1918  Somme, France

Albert Bovett   50009  Private
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
DOD 14 November 1917  Wisques, France


Henry Frederick Bowman  56407  Rifleman
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
KIA 12 September 1918  Havrincourt, France

Albert Victor Brame  52370  Private
Wellington Infantry Regiment
KIA 24 August 1918 Bapaume, France




Merson Templer Gore Brett 12/2653 Corporal
Auckland Infantry Battalion
KIA 3 October 1916 Somme, France


Ernest Brokenshire  2/2587  Driver
New Zealand Field Artillery
DOW 27 November 1916 France
William Brown  31935  Private
New Zealand Training Unit
Died 28 August 1916  New Zealand

Athelstane Roy Burton  12/2228  Private
Auckland Infantry Battalion
DOW 12 August 1915  HMHS Valdivia ex Gallipoli

James Seddon Butterworth (MM)  14386  Private
Wellington Infantry Regiment
DOW 29 September 1918  France




William George Capstick  41273  Private
Auckland Infantry Regiment
KIA 26 March 1918 Somme, France

Henry Carswell   12/2237  Private
Auckland Infantry Battalion
KIA 8 August 1915 Gallipoli, Turkey

Joseph Clark   any information about this man would be gratefully received.

Clifford Clarence Cornelius  69462  Private
Otago Infantry Regiment
KIA 25 August 1918  Bapaume, France

John James Cowan  12/330  Corporal
Auckland Infantry Regiment
DOW 16 July 1916 France

Charles Harold Cribb  45269  Corporal
Otago Infantry Regiment
KIA 13 January 1918  France

Thomas M Cronin  1/607  Rifleman
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
KIA 30 March 1918 Somme, France

Alexander Gordon Davey  57581  Rifleman
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
KIA 8 October 1918 Le Cateau, France

Richard John Dunphy  12/341  Private
Auckland Infantry Battalion
KIA 25 April 1915 Gallipoli, Turkey

Fredrick John Eastwood  31980  Private
Auckland Infantry Regiment
DOW 24 June 1917 Prisoner of War, Limberg, Germany

Albert Everitt (MM)  20979  Corporal
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
DOW 7 August 1918 France



John Farrow  12/2694  Corporal
Auckland Infantry Regiment
KIA 26 September 1916 Somme, France

New Zealand Rifle Brigade
KIA 3 January 1918  France



Thomas Fleming  29385 Private
New Zealand Training Unit
DOD 9 August 1916 Trentham Camp

John Leask Foubister  Second Lieutenant
Royal Flying Corp
Accidental death 8 October 1917 England

Alfred Gardner  10/923  Private
Wellington Infantry Battalion
KIA 8 August 1915 Gallipoli, Turkey

Ernest Eady Gibbons  12/356  Private
Auckland Infantry Regiment
DOW 9 October 1916 France

Thomas Western Hayward  12/751  Private
Auckland Infantry Battalion
KIA 25 April 1915 Gallipoli, Turkey



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Te Aroha War Memorial

With ANZAC Day fast approaching, I thought that I would start with the World War One War Memorial, located in the centre of the township.

I want to expand the list of the names on the memorial to show information about each soldier's rank, serial number, unit served in, death date and location, and cemetery where buried. I will include a photo where I have them, usually taken from the newspapers of the time.

Some of the soldiers have been difficult to identify. I have used the Auckland Museum Cenotaph database, the Commonwealth War Grave Commission database and Archives New Zealand collection of digitised military records. If you know more about the unidentified soldiers or have a photo of the soldier you would like me to add, please contact me.


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Friday, 29 March 2013

Let's Get Started



I have gathered a large collection of information about Te Aroha and want to share this information with others who have a connection to this town. All my information has been found in freely available sources, mostly online. I thought it would be good to have all the information in one place.

I have been encouraged to put this blog together by similar blogs and websites, particularly...

http://thamesnz-genealogy.blogspot.co.nz


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