Genies' Jottings

Lists
and lists
and more lists

Casualties

From: AUCKLAND WEEKLY NEWS 1915

This magazine is recorded on microfilm and can be accessed at the Auckland City Library.

Aucklanders among the Invalided Men Returned from Egypt

CARTER, Lt Walter E
QUEDLEY, QM Sgt C E; SUTHERLAND, Cpl M J; ANDERSON, Trooper W P; BODY, Trooper J;
CHATFIELD, Trooper S M; COLL, Tpr H F; McFADDEN, Tpr J - Auckland Mounted Rifles.
Privates CAPLES, J T; COLLIER, O; CROWE, H S; PEACE, F C; ROBSON, E - Auckland Batt.
[AWN 13.05.1915]

DARDANELLES CASUALTIES

DAWSON, Lt Alan Douglas Gibb, KIA - s/o Mr Alexander Dawson, Shelly Beach Road. Old boy of Auckland Grammar School & Lieutenant in the School Cadets. Captain of school swimming team. ????? champion of Auckland schools at 10 yrs. Member of team which won the Campbell Vase for shooting 1909/10. [AWN 13.05.1915]
ROBSON, L/Cpl Robert Cole - KIA, aged 21, s/o Mr & Mrs W Robson, Mt Eden. Born Hastings, Hawkes Bay. Prominent in school sport at Auckland Grammar School. Worked on a sheep station at Hawkes Bay. First Expeditionary Force. [AWN 13.05.1915]
MORPETH, L/Cpl Gerald, second s/o H D Morpeth, Town Clerk of Waihi, wounded at Dardenelles. Second of three sons agt the front who are on the casualty list. Prev. reported that Lt Niccol MORPETH had been slightly wounded. [AWN 13.05.1915]
DODSON, Lt F H - the Mayor of Tauranga, Mr E E Macmillan, moved that a letter of condolence be forwarded to his mother. [AWN 13.05.1915]
MATHESON, Lt Ron, aged 38, Imperial Light Horse (Boer War) - KIA, German South West Africa. Mother & brother still residing in Tauranga. Mining agent. Sister - Mrs C P Stichbury, Jervois Road. [AWN 13.05.1915]

AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES
[NZers serving with Australian troops]

DAWSON, A D - KIA, relatives residing in NZ
HACCHE, Pte C J - 4th Australian Infantry. NOK: B B Hacche, Post Office, Gisborne
SUTTON, Pte B - 12th Aus. Infantry. NOK: Mrs SUTTON, Hastings St, Bluff
EDWARDS, Pte J A W, 7th Aus. Infantry. NOK: Mrs Edwin Edwards, Paeroa
WRIGHT, Pte R C, 3rd Aus. Infantry. NOK: Henry Wright, Mein St, Wellington
[AWN 13.05.1915]

RETURN OF INVALIDS

The gifts to the troops from Auckland had been much appreciated, both by the officers & men. Any news of this city was eagerly looked forward to by the Auckland men. There was generally a rush to obtain the 'Auckland Weekly News' when it arrived and the comprehensive reading matter and fine pictures usually called forth most favourable comment.

The invalids who returned by the transport to Wellington included the following Aucklanders:

Auckland Mounted Rifles
ANDERSON, Tpr W P
BODY, Tpr J
CHATFIELD, Tpr S M
COLL, Tpr H F
McFADDEN, Tpr J
QUEDLEY, QM Sgt C E
SUTHERLAND, Cpl M J

Auckland Battalion

CAPLES, Pte J T
COLLIER, Pte O
CROWE, Pte H S
PEACE, Pte F C
ROBSON, Pte E

[AWN 13 May 1915]

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 


   

 


 

 

Transcribed: January, 2001 by Jackie Walles, New Zealand

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