Thursday, 27 July 2023

2929 Private Andrew Moncrief Given, (?)-19/7/1919. "success in the grand old game"

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PRIVATE A. M. GIVEN.  Amongst the list of casualties amongst New Zealanders with the Australian Imperial Forces appears the name of Private ...
Tuesday, 25 July 2023

William George Malcolmson, 1900-17/11/1919. "Oh, dad, I am shot."

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FATAL ACCIDENTS. The Superintendent of Police received word to-day that  William  Malcolmson, about 20 years of age,  accidentally  and fata...

Dr Sydney Taylor Champtaloup, MD, DSc, 1880-11/12/1921.

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LATE DR   CHAMPTALOUP A BRILLIANT CAREER  Through the death of Dr S. T.  Champtaloup,  which we chronicled in our last issue, New Zealand ha...
Monday, 24 July 2023

80540 Private Maurice Kennelly, 15/9/1884-12/7/1920. "plenty of Coal and Wood"

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  Maurice Kennelly was called up in January, 1918, and discharged at the end of the war.  He went back to his previous occupation and died o...

23620 Private Leonard Gladstone Shaw, 3/10/1885-26/9/1916. "fruit farmer at Clyde"

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Private Leonard Shaw of the Otago Infantry Regiment arrived in France from Britain in time for the "Big Push" - the Somme offensiv...

James Arthur McQueen, 1924-30/10/1943. "the saddle girth broke"

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FATAL FALL FROM HORSE (P.A.) DUNEDIN, this day. While  James Arthur   McQueen  (19) was riding a horse along a street in the city yesterday ...
Sunday, 23 July 2023

Thomas McAuliffe, 1900-14/11/1926. "engaged in shunting"

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DUNEDIN, November 12. Mr  Thomas McAuliffe,  aged 23, received injuries to his right leg this morning while engaged in shunting operations i...