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Category: WWI

Memorial Benches

By friends on October 14, 2023November 7, 2023

By Julia Kennedy Two marble seats add to the symmetrical layout of the original part of the Soldiers Cemetery. They were presented by the Women’s National Reserve (W.N.R) in 1920….

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Memorial Kauri

By friends on October 14, 2023

On the right hand side of the original Soliders’ area is a magnificent Kauri with a bronze plaque underneath which reads: “Memorial Kauri Planted By Sir James Allen G.C.M.G, Armistice…

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Mathew & Elsie Holmes

By friends on October 14, 2023November 7, 2023

By Julia Kennedy A sundial is placed on the upper slope of the right-hand side of the original Soldiers’ section. It was a gift of Mrs Holmes (Elsie), in memory…

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Kroner – were they spies?

By friends on August 27, 2023

This is a postscript to our last story which prompted our reader Liz Moir to message us and ask the question. Were we missing something? Were they spies? To answer…

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Hildegard Kroner

By friends on August 27, 2023

This headstone for 8 year old Hildegard Kroner is the only evidence of three generations of the Kroner family in New Zealand. Her grandfather Heinrich Wilhelm Kroner [sometimes Kroener] came…

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Claude Woodford

By friends on August 26, 2023

Claude Albert Curtis Woodford – served in WWI twice Claude was 8 years old when his father died in 1895 (see previous story). He went to Sydney Street school and…

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Fearn & Quick

By friends on August 26, 2023

Fearn & Quick – architects of the William Booth Memorial Training College, Aro Street. Stanley Fearn was born in Mile End, London, in 1887 to Walter who was a pawnbroker…

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Louise Brandon

By friends on April 25, 2023

Louise Elizabeth Brandon – Nurse WW1 Louise Elizabeth de Bathe Brandon was born in Wellington in 1877. She was the the fourth child born to Henry Eustace de Bathe Brandon…

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Lily Ponds

By friends on April 25, 2023

It is well timed for ANZAC Day 2023 that we are pleased to announce the two lily ponds in the services section have had their restoration completed. These ponds are…

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Euphemia Culbert Baxter O.B.E.

By friends on May 9, 2021June 30, 2021

Euphemia Cunningham, known as Effie, was born in Edinburgh in 1892 and was working in a printing factory when war began. Two of her brothers were regular soldiers and were…

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