Sunday, 14 October 2018

3/452 Private Archibald William Thomson, 20/12/1895-14/10/1918.

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Archibald Thomson was a butcher, working in the family business for his father when he joined the army in October, 1914, leaving for Trenth...
Thursday, 11 October 2018

29244 Squadron Leader Terence Gunion Lovell-Gregg, 19/9/1912-15/8/1940.

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Wearing the dress uniform of the RAF - Weekly News photo. When it comes to telling the story of Terence Lovell-Gregg, I can't do bet...

Miriam Hannah "Killed in Broadway"

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The epitaph "Killed in Broadway" was an intriguing one to find in the Picton Cemetery.  Did it refer to Broadway in New York?  We...

15/96 2nd Lieutenant Melville Arthur White, 21/11/1893-23/4/1917

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Melville White's occupation on enlistment is given in his record as "Civil Servant" - he worked for the Post and Telegraph De...
Wednesday, 10 October 2018

NZW39913 Sergeant John Edward Fuller 11/2/1916-14/8/1940

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Weekly News photo. John Edward Fuller was the son of Hugh and Kathleen of Blenheim and married to Dorothy of Brooklyn, Wellington....

NZ40940 Warrant Officer Laurence Beresford Hope, 1926-19/4/1945.

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Laurence Hope grew up at French Pass in the Marlborough Sounds - an isolated and beautiful place.  He was born in 1926. He is re...
Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Abraham Walley Mahomed Salaman, 1881-8/2/1941.

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In the Te Henui Cemetery in New Plymouth is a remarkable monument.  Compared to the graves around it, it is massive.  And very "Easter...