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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 1878
Died 1916
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Born 1893
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 4/895 New Zealand Engineers
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Born 1886
Died 1918
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Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 35474 New Zealand Machine Gun Corps
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Born 1874
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 29836 Otago Infantry Regiment
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Born 1893
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 3/667 New Zealand Medical Corps
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Born 1896
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 16/769 New Zealand Pioneer Battalion
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Born 1881
Died 1918
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Born 1882
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 27170 Auckland Infantry Regiment
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Born 1895
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 45872 Wellington Infantry Regiment
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Born 1896
Died 1918
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Born 1897
Died 1918
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 19779 ALIAS Pioneer Battalion
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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 1891
Died 1918
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Born 1890
Died 1917
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Born 1884
Died 1918
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Born 1894
Died 1917
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Born 1891
Died 1916
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Born 1899
Died 1919
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