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Arthur Chadderton

Written in my father's diary. 29.3.42 - "Bad road accident Chatterton killed on leave truck".

Benjamin Exell

Ben was born in London UK in 1883 and emigrated to New Zealand with his parents, Thomas and Jane

Ronald Seaforth Jones

Sergeant Ronald Jones 5/599, Machine Gun Corps War Exploits 1915 – 1918.

Stanley Charles Jones

Pilot Officer Stanley Charles Jones 41085 Born 16 Jan 1918 Died 11 Feb 1942 Pilot Officer Jones w

Marie Elsie Isabel Innes
Thomas Wallace Shrimpton

I am an UK/NZ citizen, currently residing in Porthcawl, South Wales and I have "adopted" Thomas's

Patrick Devine

Patrick Devine was born in Methil, Fife, Scotland 22 October 1891.

Cyril Robinson Fothergill

Cyril's DOB is 22 August 1915. [Record since amended - NZWGT]

Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin was born in Gore, New Zealand on the 31st October 1892, and was the ninth child o

William Angus Todd

He died from pellagra pneumonia in Shinagawa POW Hospital.

Roland John Wright
Ashley Aston Haworth

My grandmother, a nurse in Dunedin, had hoped to marry him after the war was over.

Rothesay Linton Jones

He was born on the 11th of August 1919 and went by his middle name Linton.

David Nicolson

David Nicolson was the brother of my grandfather.

Bennett Goodwin
Henry John Rowe

Henry John Rowe was born 25th September 1894 on the family farm on the banks of the Kopuaranga Ri

William Sendall Streeter
John Gilks

I visited Lijssenthoek with my father Tom Gilks to visit his uncle's grave; we were looking for W

John Kerr

John Kerr is my father's uncle. I remember his sisters and his brother David.

Richard Barney Olsen