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Oamaru [57]

Georgetown, near Oamaru, Otago, South Island [3]

Oamaru NZ [2]

Oamaru, New Zealand [2]

Oamaru, Otago [1]

Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand [1]

Oamaru, Otago [1]

Rank

Private [12]

Staff Nurse [3]

2nd Lieutenant [1]

Corporal [1]

Deck Hand [1]

Lance Corporal [1]

Leading Stoker [1]

Ordinary Seaman [1]

Sapper [1]

Stoker 1st Class [1]

Unit

Otago Infantry Regiment [9]

New Zealand Army Nursing Service [3]

Auckland Infantry Regiment [1]

Australian Infantry [1]

Canterbury Infantry Regiment [1]

Canterbury Regiment [1]

E Company [1]

HMS Torch [1]

HMS Vivid I [1]

New Zealand Engineers [1]

New Zealand Rifle Brigade [1]

New Zealand Rifle Brigade (First enlistment) [1]

Royal Australian Navy - HM Submarine E7 [1]

Royal Naval Reserve [1]

Service

Australian Imperial Force [42]

New Zealand Expeditionary Force [20]

Royal Navy [4]

Last name first letter

M [11]

B [8]

R [8]

S [8]

G [6]

C [4]

D [3]

H [3]

K [3]

W [3]

A [2]

O [2]

P [2]

E [1]

N [1]

T [1]

Y [1]

Contribution

Military Service [65]

Merchant Navy [1]

Country

New Zealand [14]

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People [67] Stories Communities

Place of birth

Oamaru [57] Georgetown, near Oamaru, Otago, South Island [3] Oamaru NZ [2] Oamaru, New Zealand [2] Oamaru, Otago [1] Oamaru, South Island, New Zealand [1] Oamaru, Otago [1]

Rank

Private [12] Staff Nurse [3] 2nd Lieutenant [1] Corporal [1] Deck Hand [1] Lance Corporal [1] Leading Stoker [1] Ordinary Seaman [1] Sapper [1] Stoker 1st Class [1]

Unit

Otago Infantry Regiment [9] New Zealand Army Nursing Service [3] Auckland Infantry Regiment [1] Australian Infantry [1] Canterbury Infantry Regiment [1] Canterbury Regiment [1] E Company [1] HMS Torch [1] HMS Vivid I [1] New Zealand Engineers [1] New Zealand Rifle Brigade [1] New Zealand Rifle Brigade (First enlistment) [1] Royal Australian Navy - HM Submarine E7 [1] Royal Naval Reserve [1]

Service

Australian Imperial Force [42] New Zealand Expeditionary Force [20] Royal Navy [4]

Last name first letter

M [11] B [8] R [8] S [8] G [6] C [4] D [3] H [3] K [3] W [3] A [2] O [2] P [2] E [1] N [1] T [1] Y [1]

Contribution

Military Service [65] Merchant Navy [1]

Country

New Zealand [14]

Michael Piper

Born 1892

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 8/1314 Private Otago Infantry Regiment 1st Battalion

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Margaret Rogers

Born 1887

Died 1915

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 22/175 Staff Nurse New Zealand Army Nursing Service

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Arthur Sindel Mehrtens Coatman

Born 1893

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 8/25 2nd Lieutenant Otago Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Rosewall James Watson

Born 1895

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 8/2493 Private Otago Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Frank Hannagan

Born 1879

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 24433 Private Otago Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Murdoch Morrison

Born 1872

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 41601 Private Otago Infantry Regiment 1st Battalion

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Harkness Henry Rice

Born 1879

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 39317 Private Otago Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Edward Duffy Milne

Born 1896

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 33013 Private Otago Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Mary Gorman

Born 1880

Died 1915

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 22/73 Staff Nurse New Zealand Army Nursing Service

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Isabel Clark

Born 1885

Died 1915

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 22/108 Staff Nurse New Zealand Army Nursing Service

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David Nelson

Born 1882

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 10/1304 New Zealand Rifle Brigade Wellington Infantry Battalion, 1st Battalion

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 10/1304 and 18695 Private New Zealand Rifle Brigade (First enlistment) Wellington Infantry Battalion (second enlistment)

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James Walker Hollow

Born 1894

Died 1917

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 8/2012 Lance Corporal Otago Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Willie Aka William Shadwell

Born 1893

Died 1918

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 22373 Private Auckland Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Charles Nesbit Shadwell

Born 1897

Died 1976

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 58612 Private Canterbury Infantry Regiment 2nd Battalion

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William Joseph Edward Harris

Born 1890

Died 1960

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 79329

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 79329 Private E Company

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Edward Shadwell

Born 1879

Died 1918

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 59731 Private Canterbury Regiment 2nd Battalion

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Francis John Conlan

Born 1879

Died 1953

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 7751

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 12/525

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John William Gibb

Born 1895

Died 1915

New Zealand Expeditionary Force 4/362 Sapper New Zealand Engineers Divisional Signal Troops

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Frank Osborne

Australian Imperial Force 3097

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James Albert Mcnaught

Australian Imperial Force 3396A

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