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World War I (1914-1918): New Zealand Prisoners of War

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Berry, Burgess, Clarke, Dyke and 4 others
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  • Cenotaph.
    Pte. William John Burgess (1886 - 1919)
    Son of Richard Henry Burgess and Bessie (Betsey) Ferguson Burgess. Husband of Mrs Marguerite Ivy Geraldine Burgess (nee McRae, later Lorgelly), they married in 1915. Four brothers went to war: two were...
  • New Zealand War Graves Project.
    Rfn. Arthur Lionel Berry (1893 - 1918)
    Arthur Berry was the son of Benjamin Augustus and Kate Eleanor Berry, of 148, King Street, Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand. Born in New Zealand. Died of wounds as prisoner of war. Rifleman in NZRB,...
  • Percy James Dyke (1892 - 1941)
    POW - Germany
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    Pte. Herbert Vivian Edmondson (1888 - 1918)
    Born in 1888 in Tākaka, Golden Bay, Herbert ‘Bertie’ Edmondson was the sixth of Thomas and Eliza Ann Edmondson’s eight children. The family farmed at nearby Motupipi, an occupation that Bertie continue...
  • Auckland Weekly News 1917.
    Pte. Herman Frederick De Wet Clarke (1900 - 1917)
    Private in AIR, file number 19124. Embarked Wellington, 29 July 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 28 September 1916. Admitted to Military Hospital, Devonport, 28 September 1916 (cystitis); tran...

More than 500 New Zealanders who were detained as military or civilian prisoners of war (POWs) during the First World War. Some 506 New Zealand service personnel were captured by Germans on the Western Front while 42 were captured by Turkish forces at Gallipoli or during the Sinai-Palestine campaign. And at least 20 civilians in Germany when war was declared were interned there as enemy aliens.For its part, New Zealand interned around 570 Germans. Source: http://www.specialcollections.auckland.ac.nz/ww1-centenary/collegia....
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