Lives of the First World War

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ID: 7977842

Reference: NZGREATWAR

Title: Online Cenotaph: New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Description: This data was provided by Auckland War Memorial Museum, from their Online Cenotaph. This is an biographical database, whose content has been gathered over 18 years, Online Cenotaph pulls together information relating to individual service people from a huge range of sources such as embarkation, military service and other government records, newspapers and families.

UPP: ANZ/NZGREATWAR/9029

Credit: © Auckland War Memorial Museum

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ID: 9061434

Name: 1885 MCKENZIE, JOHN (Statutory registers Births 066/1 35)

Title: John's Birth Certificate

Description: John's Birth Certificate detailing his parents, and his date and place of birth.

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URL: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
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Additional: The person's names match as do other personal details. The spelling of his surname varies throughout his life but this was not unusual at the time.

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ID: 9061645

Name: 1891 MACKENZIE, JOHN (Census 066/1 1/ 3)

Title: 1891 Census Return

Description: The 1891 Census Return detailing John, his father and his brother and sisters.

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Additional: The person's names match as do other family details.

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ID: 9061744

Name: 1901 MACKENZIE, JOHN (Census 066/1 2/ 1)

Title: 1901 Census Return

Description: The 1901 Census Return, detailing John, his father and one of his sisters, all living on a new Croft.

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Additional: The person's names match as do other personal details.

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ID: 9061755

Name: 1905 MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER (Statutory registers Marriages 066/2 1)

Title: Alexander's second marriage

Description: John's father Alexander had been a widower for some time, and this details his second marriage.

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Additional: The person's names match as do other family details. A John McKenzie acted as a witness at the marriage, and may have been Alexander's son.

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ID: 9061769

Name: 1911 MACKENZIE, JOHN (Census 066/1 2/ 5)

Title: 1911 Census Return

Description: The 1911 Census Return, detailing John, his father, and his step-mother Annie.

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Additional: The person's names match as do other personal and family details.

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ID: 9062147

Name: http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE18933041

Title: John's Army Service Record

Description: A full and very detailed personnel record for John's time with the New Zealand forces.

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URL: https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz
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Additional: The person's names match as do many personal and family details.

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ID: 9062229

Name: 1879 MACKENZIE, ALEXANDRINA (Statutory registers Births 066/1 7)

Title: Birth Certificate for John's sister, Alexandrina

Description: The Birth Certificate for John's sister, Alexandrina, detailing her parents and her place and date of birth.

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Additional: The parents' names and the place of birth match the details on John's Birth Certificate.

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ID: 9062990

Name: 1879 MACKENZIE, DONALDINA (Statutory registers Births 066/1 6)

Title: Birth Certificate for John's sister, Donaldina

Description: The Birth Certificate for John's sister Donaldina, detailing her parents and her place and date of birth.

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Additional: The person's parents and place of birth match those for John.

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ID: 9063109

Title: Cloth patch for 3rd Battalion, Canterbury Regiment

Description: A cloth patch for 3rd Battalion which would be sewn on the back of the uniform jacket.

Connected by: Ursula6166

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ID: 9325068

Reference: gbm_cwgc_casualties_iwm_ww1

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records Transcription

Connected by: Selena49658

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/364753

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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ID: 9338262

Title: John's gravestone

Description: The stone marking the grave of John McKenzie in the Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, in Zonnebeke.

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ID: 9338352

Title: John's Row

Description: The Row where John is buried - the 11th stone in - at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke.

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Additional: Taken on 4th September 2018 when we visited John's grave.

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ID: 9338354

Title: The New Zealand Memorial

Description: A view of the New Zealand Memorial and some of the graves in Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke.

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Additional: Taken on 4th September 2018 when we visited John's grave.

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ID: 9497399

Title: The Kia Tupato Troop Ship

Description: The Troop Ship which carried the 19th Reinforcements from New Zealand to the UK in 1917

Connected by: Ursula6166

Additional: The image was obtained from the http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph

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