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| kauri planted Sinai Palestine Memorial forest WW1 Pauanui - photo courtesy Chris Ball |
The Sinai Campaign began about January 1915 and continued on into about October 1918. The Palestine Campaign began in 1917.
In January 1917, the New Zealand Herald reporting on railway construction of the Sinai operations, wrote:-
Note Red Text : Denotes from Council areas TCDC / Hauraki / Matamata Piako based on birth place, NOK, place of work, family links including
NAME Service No Rank Cemetery/ Memorial
In January 1917, the New Zealand Herald reporting on railway construction of the Sinai operations, wrote:-
" Over 390 miles of railway have been constructed in
connection with the Sinai operations. There are important trade prospects for
this line after the war." ( New Zealand Herald 26/01/1917 p5)
The Sun wrote:-
" The main factor in the success in conquering the Sinai
desert was intense and unremitting work. Hundreds of miles of roads and
railways were built, and filters were installed, supplying 1,500,000 gallons of
water daily. Quantities of stone were transported from distant quarries, and Kantara
was transformed into an important railway and water terminus. Hundreds of miles
of barbed-wire entanglements, aerodromes, wireless stations and sanitation
works were necessary to make the desert
habitable. The work of the Camel Corps, including Australian and New Zealand
units, was excellent throughout, and had done a great part of the work of
supplying the troops" (
Unremitting with the heat and the cold because of the high altitudes of the Sinai Desert.
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Rarotongan soldiers, World war One. Buckland,
Alfred Francis, 1882-1971 :Photographs taken during World War I of the New
Zealand Expeditionary Forces in Jerusalem, and the Auckland Mounted Rifles in
Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. Ref: 1/2-066834-F. Alexander Turnbull Library,
Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22299038
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The following are lists of those who lost their lives in the
Sinai Palestine campaigns, World War One - through disease, or through war
action. Since 2015 there has been continued research to identify those who lost their lives - this because little has been known about these
TCDC (Thames Coromandel District Council) has designated one of the
Memorial Forests on the Coromandel Peninsula to be near Tangitaroria Lane,
Pauanui. This is at the beginning of stage two of the Pauanui - Tairua
cycleway.
The following lists
are to assist the process of knowing who lost their lives in the Sinai and
Palestine Campaigns during World War One: -
Sinai Palestine Campaign and WW1 Memorial Forest Pauanui R –
Z This URL
Roll of Honour
R - Z
Note Red Text : Denotes from Council areas TCDC / Hauraki / Matamata Piako based on birth place, NOK, place of work, family links including
NAME Service No Rank Cemetery/ Memorial
RAINE, John Henry
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7/1276
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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REES, Frederick Ormsby
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7/1651
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
Memorial, Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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REID, Robert Aitken
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11/2509
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Trooper
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New
Zealand Mounted Machine Gun Squadron
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Mazar,
Palestine
Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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RENALL, Richard Percy
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12242
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Lance
Corporal
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Machine
Gun Squadron
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Amman,
Palestine
Jerusalem
Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel
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REW, John Neil
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11/1854
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Trooper
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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RIBBON, Charles
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12476
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Trooper
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New
Zealand Mounted Machine Gun Squadron
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Deir el
Belah War Cemetery, Palestine, Israel
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RICHARDSON, Joseph
William
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17534
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Trooper
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Jerusalem
Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel
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ROBERTS,
William Caleb
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13/2245
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Trooper
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Ayun
Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine
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ROBERTSON, Alexander
Campbell
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78933
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Trooper
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New
Zealand Mounted Rifles
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Suez War
Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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ROBERTSON,
Douglas
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17363
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
Memorial, Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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ROBERTSON, Eion
Alister
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11/1365
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Sergeant
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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Alexander
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35407
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Damascus
Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria
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ROGERS, George
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35925
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Damascus
Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria
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ROLPH, Lionel Edwin
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17575
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Egypt to
Palestine
Cairo
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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ROPE, Charles
Manfred
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13/432
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Corporal
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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ROSS, Thomas
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7/1511
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Lance
Corporal
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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ROSS, William Williams
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7/1653
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Chanak
Consular Cemetery, Turkey
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ROWLAND, John
Beetham
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11/2366
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Trooper
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New
Zealand Machine Gun Corps
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Ramleh
War Cemetery, Israel
Ayun
Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine
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ROUSE, Claude
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11/368
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Sergeant
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles
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Ramleh
War Cemetery, Israel
Ayun
Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine
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RUDD, Frank Watson
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36019
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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RYAN, Rowan
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13/436
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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SAMUEL, William
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43782
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Damascus
Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria
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SANDERS,
Owen Frederick
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16343
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Sergeant
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Imperial
Camel Corps (New Zealand)
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Beersheba
War Cemetery, Israel
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SANDERSON,
William
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7/1410
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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SANDFORD,
Carroll Henry Thomas
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17446
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Trooper
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Imperial
Camel Corps, 4th (Anzac) Battalion
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Egypt to
Palestine
Cairo
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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SAUNDERS,
James Henry
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13/949
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Trooper
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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died
while prisoner of war in Turkey
Died of
Disease
Turkey
to Egypt
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SCOTT, Alfred Edward Lionel
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35382
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Trooper
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Damascus
West Mil. Cemetery.
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SCOTT, William Thomas
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13475
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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SHANAHAN, R
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13/1093
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Corporal
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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SHARLAND,
Thomas John
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7/1783
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Lance
Corporal
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Jerusalem
War Cemetery, Israel
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SHEEHAN,
Patrick
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11/2238
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Beersheba
War Cemetery, Israel
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SHEPHERD, Charles
Samuel
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36051
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Trooper
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Imperial
Camel Corps (New Zealand)
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Sydenham
Cemetery, end of Simeon Street, Christchurch, New Zealand
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SHIELDS, John
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7/1004
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Lance
Corporal
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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SIMPSON ,
Gordon
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13/651
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Sergeant
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Machine
Gun Squadron
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Jerusalem
Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel
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SIMPSON,
Jonathan Newby
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9/1489
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Private
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New
Zealand Machine Gun Corps
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Karori
Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand
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SIMPSON, James Thomas
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11/1596
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Trooper
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Machine
Gun Squadron
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Ramleh
War Cemetery
Thames family links
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SINCLAIR, David
Henry
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57150
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Trooper
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles
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Cairo War
Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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SLATER, Arthur John
Stevens
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24935
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Trooper
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Egypt to
Palestine
Cairo War
Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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SMART, Charles
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7/1142
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Lance
Corporal
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New
Zealand Mounted Machine Gun Squadron
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Damascus
Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria
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SMITH, Alexander
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16127
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Damascus
Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria
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SMITH, Athol
Wallace
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11/1493
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Trooper
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles
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Ayun
Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine
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SMITH, Francis Guthrie
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7/1557
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Trooper
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New
Zealand Machine Gun Corps
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Quatia,
Sinai
Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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SMITH George William Hay
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50071
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Jerusalem
War Cemetery, Israel
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SOMMERVILLE,
Charles Leslie
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16038
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Major
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles
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Jerusalem
War Cemetery, Israel
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STANBURY, Harry
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13/2485
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Trooper
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Ayun
Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine
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STEEL, George
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13/2487
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Corporal
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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United
Kingdom to Palestine
Gravesend
Cemetery Kent, United Kingdom
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STEELE, Thomas
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7/1899
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Deir el Belah
War Cemetery, Palestine, Israel
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Arthur
Frank
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69732
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Trooper
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles
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Ismailia
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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STEVENS,
Duncan Burrell
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24934
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Trooper
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles, 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Squadron
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Jerusalem
Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel
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STEVENS, Leslie
Gordon
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11/383
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Lance
Corporal
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles
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Jerusalem
War Cemetery, Israel
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STEWART, James
Douglas
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16/514
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Sergeant
Major
Also
Lieutenant
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Headquarters
Staff; 1st Maori Contingent
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Ramleh
War Cemetery, Israel
Ayun
Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine
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STRACHAN, Laurie
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11/557
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Sergeant
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Wellington
Mounted Rifles
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Ramleh
War Cemetery, Israel
Ayun
Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine
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STRATFORD
, Rossland, Cecil
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13/1065a
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Trooper
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Jerusalem
Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel
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SUTHERLAND, Hugh Charles
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13/2084
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Trooper
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Family links Matamata
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SUTHERLAND,
William Joseph
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13/2494
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Corporal
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Auckland
Mounted Rifles
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Jerusalem
Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel
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SUTTON, Ralph
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7/1420
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Trooper
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Canterbury
Mounted Rifles
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Kantara
War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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Reference
Source:
Sinai Palestine Campaigns WW1 Those Who
Lost Their Lives – Researched, Transcribed and Compiled by Anne Stewart
Ball August 2015 reviewed researched transcribed and updated
2019
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Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph
Database http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission http://www.cwgc.org
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Dolores Cross project http://www.dolorescrossproject.org/
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NZ WWI Memorial Forest Project TCDC http://www.tcdc.govt.nz/Your-Council/Council-Projects/Current-Projects/Coromandel-National-WW1-Memorial-Forest-Project/
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Australian War Memorial https://www.awm.gov.au/unit/U51065/
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Camel Corps', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/camel-corps (Ministry for Culture and
Heritage), updated 2-Sep-2014
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Imperial War Museum http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/10-incredible-photos-of-the-imperial-camel-corps
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London Remembers Imperial Camel Corps http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/imperial-camel-corps
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Australia Light Horse Studies Centre
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Wikipedia – Imperial Camel Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Camel_Corps
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Photo of Poppy from Pauanui Garden - CRB
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