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New Zealanders buried at Brockenhurst
New Zealanders buried at Brockenhurst
Due to proximity to the port of Southampton, railway connections, and an abundance of large houses in the area, Brockenhurst in the New Forest was chosen in 1915 by the War Office to become a hospital centre. Initially, Lady Hardinge's Hospital (named after the wife of the Viceroy of India) for the Indian troops of the Lahore and Meerut Divisions was established south of the village. This was then replaced by No.1 New Zealand General Hospital in June 1916, after the Indian Divisions were replaced by ANZAC troops. The New Zealand Hospital remained at Brockenhurst until it closed early in 1919. In all some 21,000 New Zealand casualties were treated at the hospital, including 93 who died. The churchyard at Brockenhurst contains 106 graves of the First World War, of which one hundred are in the New Zealand plot. In addition to the 93 New Zealand graves, there are also three Indian and three unidentified Belgian civilians (employed at the Sopley Forestry camp). Every year at the annual Anzac Service in Brockenhurst cemetery the village remembers the ninety-three New Zealand soldiers buried there after dying of their wounds or sickness.
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Born 1888
Died 1916
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 6/2052 Private Canterbury Infantry Regiment
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Born 1884
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 10/2852 Wellington Infantry Regiment
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Born 1895
Died 1916
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 2/2575 New Zealand Field Artillery
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Born 1895
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 23/77 New Zealand Rifle Brigade 1st Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 52940 New Zealand Field Artillery
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Born 1895
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 13406 Canterbury Infantry Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1884
Died 1916
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 25/948 New Zealand Rifle Brigade 3rd Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 49874 New Zealand Rifle Brigade
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Born 1874
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 41741 Wellington Infantry Regiment
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Born 1893
Died 1916
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 12/2183 Auckland Infantry Regiment
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Born 1891
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 4/2060 New Zealand Engineers
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Born 1887
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 17697 Wellington Infantry Regiment
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Born 1893
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 3/667 New Zealand Medical Corps
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Died 1916
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 11/764 New Zealand Field Artillery
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Born 1885
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 13000 New Zealand Rifle Brigade
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Born 1895
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 2/1975 New Zealand Field Artillery
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Born 1892
Died 1916
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 12032 New Zealand Engineers
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Born 1877
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 44582 Canterbury Infantry Regiment
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Born 1883
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 49959 New Zealand Rifle Brigade
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Born 1892
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 4/98 New Zealand Engineers
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 10/3592 New Zealand Engineers
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