Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 September 2021

Three men of the Great War buried in Southern Cemetery a long way from home

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Now I know there is more of a story here but some of it eludes me. This is the memorial in Southern Cemetery to three men killed fighti...
Wednesday, 1 September 2021

Remembering those from New Zealand and Australia who rest in Southern Cemetery

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Now here is a book from the end of the conflict. Final Campaign Number It belongs to Allan Dodson who lives in New Zealand and there ...
Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Revealing more of the lives of three men from the Great War remembered in Southern Cemetery ..... and a thank you

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Lance Corporal Alleyne G Webber, circa 1914 This is Lance Corporal Alleyne Gordon Webber of the Otago Mounted Rifles. He was born in ...
Friday, 1 July 2016

Remembering them ...... 100 years after the Battle of the Somme part 8 ...... a moving ceremony in Southern Cemetery

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Major Charron salutes the fallen Today’s ceremony of Remembrance was a moving tribute to the men who took part in the Battle of the Som...
Friday, 17 June 2016

Remembering those from New Zealand buried in Manchester and an appeal for help

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New Zealand at the Front Yesterday and for most of the rest of June I will be reflecting on those men of the Commonwealth forces who ar...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Looking at the Great War from New Zealand with a nod to this Sunday's remembrance event in Southern Cemetery

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A G Webber remembered in  Southern Cemetery It is easy to view events from a European perspective; after all I was born in Britain, and...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

Two New Zeland Soldiers .............. another story from Tony Goulding

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On a recent trip to Manchester’s Southern Cemetery, searching for another grave, I observed this pair of headstones.  They mark the fin...