Genies' Jottings

Lists
and lists
and more lists

Roll of Honour - World War 1

From: the Auckland Weekly News

This magazine is recorded on microfilm and can be accessed at the Auckland City Library. If anyone recognises a name in the list of photographs they would need to contact the Auckland Public Library, Auckland City, for someone to search that particular week’s Weekly.

Anyone analysing the paper week by week would find lots of repeats, it is being transcribed as it appears. Also when analysed you could probably follow specific names from the recruit list through to the casualty lists, however, you do become familiar with the names over the months.

Personal Paragraphs appeared from May 1915.

In the beginning the Paper seemed to go into more detail as to the exact Co/Squadron, Regiment, Battalion etc. but as the lists got longer and longer they use the overall title, which I am doing.

Obviously with the every day entries I am not recording ‘dearly beloved ……’ etc – it should be taken for granted that these words are usually included in the newspaper notice.

If anyone recognises a name in the list of photographs they would need to contact the Auckland Public Library, Auckland City, for someone to search that particular week’s Weekly – to include the details of initials and regiment would be just too time consuming. Or possibly ask someone through the Internet who might go to the library regularly.

Some names seem to be obvious mistakes but they would have been handwritten, then deciphered by the typesetter at the newspaper – I don’t imagine there were too many Typists in the Army Dept at that time!

Cheers, Jackie

Abbreviations:

A:

Aunt

        

Helio.

Heliopolis

Adm.

Admitted

 

Hosp

Hospital

AGH

Australian General Hospital

 

KIA

Killed in Action

AIB

Auckland Infantry Battalion

 

M/o

Mother of

Ak

Auckland

 

M:

Mother

Alex.

Alexandria

 

Mil.

Military

Alex’a

Alexandria

 

N:

Nephew

ALH

Australian Light Horse

 

NZEF

New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Am.

American

 

NZGH

NewZealand General Hospital

AMR

Auckland Mounted Rifles

 

OIB

Otago Infantry Battalion

ANS

Army Nursing Servicen

 

OMR

Otago Mounted Rifles

Betw.

between

 

P O

Post Office

B/o

Brother of

 

PO

Post Office

Brig.

Brigade

 

POW

Prisoner of War

C:

Cousin

 

Pris

Prisoner

Chch

Christchurch

 

Prog

Progressing

CIB

Canterbury Infantry Battalion

 

Rej.

Rejoined

CMR

Canterbury Mounted Rifles

 

Satis.

Satisfactory

Const

Constantinople

 

Ret.

Returned

Constant

Constantinople

 

Rptd

Reported

Cont.

Contingent

 

S/o

Sister of

Conv.

Convalescent

 

S:

Sister

D/W

Died of wounds

 

San.

Sanatarium

Dev.

Devonshire

 

Tr.

Train

Emb.

Embarked

 

U:

Uncle

F/o

Father of

 

W:

Wife

F:

Father

 

Wgtn

Wellington

GH

General Hospital

 

WIB

Wellington Infantry Battalion

GPO

General Post Office

 

WMR

Wellington Mounted Rifles

The Army ranks should be self-explanatory.

Transcribed: January - June, 2001 by Jackie Walles, New Zealand

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