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8/14/2022
8/14/2022
Roger Hill came to New Zealand with his parents on the ship Cashmere in May 1853. He enlisted on 12 January 1864 as an Ensign with the 1st Regiment of the Waikato Militia and was dispatched to Tauranga...
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4/15/2007
7/11/2022
Roger Hill came to New Zealand with his parents on the ship Cashmere in May 1853. He enlisted on 12 January 1864 as an Ensign with the 1st Regiment of the Waikato Militia and was dispatched to Tauranga...
7/11/2022
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6/13/2022
William Magee Hunter is remembered for leading the Pākehā forces against Titokowaru during the New Zealand Wars.
Sources
W. T. Parham. 'Hunter, William Magee', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, ...
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5/2/2022
5/2/2022
William Magee Hunter is remembered for leading the Pākehā forces against Titokowaru during the New Zealand Wars.
Sources
W. T. Parham. 'Hunter, William Magee', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, ...
5/2/2022
Colonel William Fraser, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, is well known as a military officer, civil servant and politician. Born in 1827 in Inverness, Scotland, and educated at the Roy...
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5/2/2022
5/2/2022
Colonel William Fraser, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, is well known as a military officer, civil servant and politician. Born in 1827 in Inverness, Scotland, and educated at the Roy...
5/2/2022
John Henry Herbert St. John was born in France on 4 December 1835. His father was an illegitimate son of Viscount Bolingbroke, who had fallen in love with his half-sister. Together they moved to France...
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5/2/2022
5/2/2022
John Henry Herbert St. John was born in France on 4 December 1835. His father was an illegitimate son of Viscount Bolingbroke, who had fallen in love with his half-sister. Together they moved to France...
5/2/2022
Major Cholwell Dean Pitt (son of Major-General George Dean Pitt) had, prior to taking charge of the A.C. in Poverty Bay in 1870, served in the Waikato, Wanganui, Rotorua and Opotiki districts. On 3 Jul...
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1/15/2015
4/30/2022
Major Cholwell Dean Pitt (son of Major-General George Dean Pitt) had, prior to taking charge of the A.C. in Poverty Bay in 1870, served in the Waikato, Wanganui, Rotorua and Opotiki districts. On 3 Jul...
4/30/2022
William Cowper Smith was born in London on 28 December 1843, went to Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, arrived on the Egmont at Lyttelton on 7 July 1862, went to Auckland, received a war medal for serv...
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1/6/2011
4/11/2022
William Cowper Smith was born in London on 28 December 1843, went to Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, arrived on the Egmont at Lyttelton on 7 July 1862, went to Auckland, received a war medal for serv...
4/11/2022
Born in England. Retired Captain from the 68th Regiment (Durham Light Infantry) and came to New Zealand on board the Northumberland on 13 September 1861 with three of his children, Sarah (22), Annie (1...
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5/15/2016
12/31/2021
Born in England. Retired Captain from the 68th Regiment (Durham Light Infantry) and came to New Zealand on board the Northumberland on 13 September 1861 with three of his children, Sarah (22), Annie (1...
12/31/2021
Captain Henry Gold-Smith who came to New Zealand by the ship Star of India in 1862, in command of No. 5 Company of the 1st Waikato Regiment. Source: Henry Goldsmith served in the Schleswig-Holstein War...
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7/5/2021
7/5/2021
Captain Henry Gold-Smith who came to New Zealand by the ship Star of India in 1862, in command of No. 5 Company of the 1st Waikato Regiment. Source: Henry Goldsmith served in the Schleswig-Holstein War...
7/5/2021
"Peter Grant has been described as a deserter from the British military who became a Pākehā-Māori, the only known person of European descent that adopted the Pai Mārire Māori religion, and a horse thie...
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2/5/2017
12/8/2020
"Peter Grant has been described as a deserter from the British military who became a Pākehā-Māori, the only known person of European descent that adopted the Pai Mārire Māori religion, and a horse thie...
12/8/2020
George Alfred Crabbe established a grocery and drapery store in Cameron Road near the corner of Sixth Avenue in 1867 and replaced it in 1877 with the building that survives today at the Boys’ College. ...
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9/19/2020
9/19/2020
George Alfred Crabbe established a grocery and drapery store in Cameron Road near the corner of Sixth Avenue in 1867 and replaced it in 1877 with the building that survives today at the Boys’ College. ...
9/19/2020
Many enlisted with the 1st Waikato Regiment from Melbourne, Australia. The regiment departed Australia on board the Star of India on 31 August 1863, arriving in Auckland on 13 September 1863. The regim...
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9/26/2010
5/19/2020
Many enlisted with the 1st Waikato Regiment from Melbourne, Australia. The regiment departed Australia on board the Star of India on 31 August 1863, arriving in Auckland on 13 September 1863. The regim...
5/19/2020
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3/26/2017
10/7/2019
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1/2/2017
8/2/2019
Said to have served in India and the Crimea.
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6/22/2013
8/2/2019
Said to have served in India and the Crimea.
8/2/2019
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6/22/2013
8/2/2019
1st Waikato Regiment No 3 Company. To New Zealand 1863 from Australia. Battle of Te Ranga 21 June 1864 & Tauranga Bush Campaign 1867. Tauranga Borough Council.
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4/13/2016
1/6/2019
1st Waikato Regiment No 3 Company. To New Zealand 1863 from Australia. Battle of Te Ranga 21 June 1864 & Tauranga Bush Campaign 1867. Tauranga Borough Council.
1/6/2019
Alfred J Campbell Private Campbell (Private, 1st Waikato Regiment) attended a parade before collecting rations at Gate Pa then heading home to his Oropi smallholding. It is thought that he encountered ...
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3/8/2018
3/8/2018
Alfred J Campbell Private Campbell (Private, 1st Waikato Regiment) attended a parade before collecting rations at Gate Pa then heading home to his Oropi smallholding. It is thought that he encountered ...
3/8/2018
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Harington arrived in Tauranga in 1864 as officer in charge of the 1st Waikato Militia. He later transferred to the Armed Constabulary with the rank of Inspector. In the genera...
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8/29/2016
9/1/2017
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Harington arrived in Tauranga in 1864 as officer in charge of the 1st Waikato Militia. He later transferred to the Armed Constabulary with the rank of Inspector. In the genera...
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