Several names of those killed during World War I are missing from Tauranga’s war memorials. This page is an attempt to list those Tauranga people who served during the First World War. It is a collaboration between Fiona Kean and Debbie McCauley. Fiona’s book ‘From Tauranga to the Trenches’ provides an excellent insight into Tauranga during the 1914-1918 period of warfare. Source: https://debbiemccauleyauthor.wordpress.com/history/tauranga-roll-of....

109 Tauranga People Who Died Due to War Service

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s official cut-off date for inclusion in the roll of honour is September 1921.

1. Baikie, Robert Sherer, 1895-1918 France
2. Baker, Raymond John, 1890-1915 Gallipoli
3. Bannatyne, Charles Ebenezer, 1882-1917 Belgium
4. Beach, Frederick Barnabas, 1889-1919 Trentham Military Camp [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
5. Bell, Arthur Offley, 1877-1915 Gallipoli
6. Bellers, John Vernon Herbert, 1886-1916 Belgium
7. Bettelheim, George Reeve, 1889-1918 Tauranga, NZ [Tuberculosis]
8. Bonner, William Thomas, 1891-1914 France
9. Bullick, Thomas, 1882-1918 France
10. Cairncross, John, 1876-1917 Messines, Belgium
11. Carnachan, Angus William Te Poroa, 1894-1918 Featherston Military Camp [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
12. Clarebrough, Charles Alfred Walter, 1879-1916 France
13. Clark, Leslie Harvey, 1891-1915 Gallipoli
14. Clemson, Thomas, 1871-1916 France
15. Collett, Clive Franklyn, 1886-1917 Scotland
16. Commons, Kenneth Wrigley, 1894-1915 Gallipoli
17. Cooper, Ernest, c. 1897-1917 Belgium
18. Corbett, Eric, 1886-1918 France
19. Crisp, Ernest Frederick Gordon, 1890-1918 France
20. Crosley, George Wickham, 1884-1915 Gallipoli
21. Cullen, Thomas Patrick, 1885-1917 France
22. Cunningham, William Joseph, 1882-1917 Belgium
23. Davis, George Frederick Samuel, 1893-1918 Belgium
24. Dodson, Frederick Hugh, 1891-1915 Gallipoli
25. Douglas, George Alexander, 1886-1915 Gallipoli
26. Douglas, Thomas Lewis, 1889-1915 Gallipoli
27. Ellison, John, 1881-1918 France
28. Fairs, Cecil Sydney, 1888-1915 Malta [ex Gallipoli]
29. Fenton, Alvar Francis, 1895-1917 France
30. Fenton, John Gilmore, 1888-1918 France
31. Francis, William John, 1888-1916 France [Battle of the Somme]
32. Frew, James, 1883-1917 [served as ‘James Henry Francis’] France
33. Gracey, William John Taylor, 1894-1918 Featherston Military Camp [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
34. Grant, John James, 1889-1916 Egypt [Battle of Romani]
35. Guinness, Cecil George, 1894-1917 Belgium
36. Hardy, Hugh McInnes, 1888-1918 At Sea [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
37. Harris, Alfred John Samuel, 1888-1917 France
38. Hartland, John Leslie, 1890-1918 France
39. Haua, Andrew Charles, 1894-1915 Gallipoli
40. Jordan, Sydney Carl, 1895-1917 Belgium
41. Joass, Charles, 1886-1916 France [Somme]
42. Keam, Samuel James, 1887-1917 Belgium [Battle of Messines]
43. Kemp, Kawenata, 1894-1918 Okawea, NZ [Tuberculosis]
44. Kenney, Leslie Charles, 1891-1921 Died of Wounds [Gas]
45. Kent, Alfred William, 1891-1915 Gallipoli
46. Kerr, John Andrew Bathurst, 1879-1917 Gaza, Palestine
47. Kirk, Harry Wensley, 1889-1918 England [Measles]
48. Koti, Hone, 1893-1919 Tauranga, NZ [Tuberculosis]
49. Kuka, Te Mangu, 1898-1919 Auckland, NZ [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
50. Lilley, Charles Walter Allan, 1897-1918 France
51. Lochhead, Thomas Leslie, 1890-1918 France
52. Lochhead, William Harcourt, 1895-1918 Egypt [Died of Wounds]
53. Lovell, Ernest Rudolf, 1895-1915 Gallipoli [aka James West]
54. Makaraure, Tukapa Toi, 1901-1918 Dunkirk, France [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
55. Mansel, Herbert Pengelly, 1895-1918 Palestine [Malaria]
56. Masefield, William Howard Swindley, 1896-1915 France [Died of Wounds]
57. Matheson, Ronald Tracey, 1874-1915 South West Africa
58. McArthur, Duncan Henry James, 1883-1918 Featherston, NZ [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
59. McCarthny, Sidney Carlton, 1894-1916 France [Died of Wounds]
60. McConnell, Robert, 1888-1917 France
61. McKinlay, William, 1893-1918 Auckland, NZ [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
62. McLaren, William White, 1892-1918 France
63. McRoberts, Evan Oswald, 1883-1917 France
64. Mokopapaki, Johnnie Moko, 1893-1921 NZ [as the result of War Service]
65. Norris, Sidney, 1883-1916 France
66. Pemberton, Samuel, 1893-1916 France
67. Pentelow, Frank, 1880-1917 France
68. Petherbridge, Alexander, 1891-1920 Auckland, NZ [Tuberculosis]
69. Phillips, Henry, 1883-1918 France
70. Plummer, Edwin John, 1885-1918 France
71. Poad, William Leslie, 1897-1918 France
72. Rakauhemo, Charlie Wood, 1893-1917 France
73. Ralph, Frederick Hill, 1878-1917 London, England [2nd London General Hospital]
74. Ramsay, Arthur Alexander, 1898-1918 Featherston, NZ [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
75. Reeve, William Leslie Charles, 1896-1917 Belgium [Battle of Messines]
76. Rewa, George Rangitikei, 1892-1916 France [Somme]
77. Rewi, Para Davy, 1896-1917 France [Bronchial Pneumonia]
78. Rewi, Waru Davie, 1894-1920 Tauranga, NZ [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
79. Rikihana, Harry Dickson, 1894-1918 Tauranga, NZ [Tuberculosis |1918 Influenza Pandemic]
80. Rowe, Mark Wilmot, 1893-1918 France
81. Salt, John James, 1899-1918 France
82. Samuel, Claude Montefiore, 1889-1918 Germany [POW]
83. Shannon, Leslie Richard, 1885-1916 Dunedin, NZ
84. Sharplin, Richard Wearne, 1894-1916 Featherston Military Camp, NZ
85. Sheppard, Edgar Francis, 1893-1915 Gallipoli
86. Simpson, William, 1878-1916 France
87. Skellern, Sydney Elliott, 1895-1915 Gallipoli
88. Smith, Te Mete, 1897-1918 England [Tuberculosis]
89. Snodgrass, John Graham, 1888-1917 Belgium
90. Spratley, William Nelson, 1894-1918 France
91. Stephenson, George Fisher, 1890-1917 Belgium
92. Stewart, Henry, 1888-1918 France [aka Harry]
93. Stewart, Leslie Parmenter 1895-1917 France
94. Tanner, Samuel, 1894-1917 Killed at Sea [Torpedoing of City of Perth]
95. Tapsell, Warena Mokopapaki, 1899-1918 Narrow Neck Military Camp [1918 Influenza Pandemic]
96. Taylor, Alban, 1886-1918 France
97. Tobin, George Henry Webbe, 1885-1916 France
98. Tobin, Michael, 1880-1916 France [Bronchial Pneumonia]
99. Wahia, Moa, 1890-1915 Gallipoli [At Sea]
100. Wahia, Thomas, 1894-1915 Gallipoli
101. Walker, Cecil Louis, 1886-1916 France
102. Walker, Eric Trevor Logier, 1896-1918 France
103. Wall, Robert Francis Willis, 1892-1918 France
104. Ward, Sidney Lancelot Evans, 1896-1918 Bapaume, France
105. Wasley, Albert Samuel, 1888-1917 Belgium
106. Watkins, Reginald Alfred, 1885-1916 France
107. Webster, Tiaki Wepiha Jack, 1895-1917 France
108. Wilson, Guy Clark, 1889-1918 France
109. Woollams, Roy Howard, 1898-1918 France

Tauranga People that Died as a result of War Service (post September 1921)

1. Davies, George Charles William, 1895-1924 Died as a result of War Service
2. Hammond, Edgar James, 1897-1924 Died as a result of War Service

Tauranga People That Helped With the War Effort (work in progress)

1. Maxwell, Alice Heron, 1860-1949 Fundraising
2. Maxwell, Edith Jane, 1859-1930 Fundraising
3. Ward, Charlotte Sarah (née Goodall) 1869-1938 Order of the British Empire, President of the Tauranga Branch of the Patriotic League [mother of Sidney Lancelot Evans Ward, 1896-1918]

Tauranga People Who Served During World War I (work in progress)

1. Adams, Albert Stanley, 1889-1965 Son of Tauranga Mayor John Adams, invented a mounting device for the Stokes Mortar.
2. Adams, Cuthbert Henry, 1883-1947 Son of Tauranga Mayor John Adams.
3. Berridge, John, 1896-1968
4. Brown, John, – At 54 John Brown was the oldest Tauranga man to enlist. He was discharged in 1918 due to his age
5. Berridge, William, 1893-1990 Wounded – Gallipoli
6. Blackie, Catherine Gibbins, 1877-1937 Nurse, ‘Marquette’
7. Clark, George Victor, 1897-1960
8. Clark, Harold, 1884-1963
9. Cullen, Edward James, 1883-1964 (Wounded at Gallipoli - brother of Thomas Patrick Cullen on above list)
10. Davies, Charles Christopher Thomas, 1881-1962
11. Fitzgerald, Maurice Edward William, 1883-1969
12. Frazerhurst, Joseph Livingstone, 1873-1954 Doctor – ‘Marquette’
13. Gardiner, George, 1894-1941 Served WWI & WWII
14. Goulding, Robert, 1886-1987
15. Holmes John D. – enlisted from Tauranga, received a Distinguished Service Order, D.S.O. for the construction of the Havrincourt Bridge over the Canal du Nord, a major engineering feat.
16. Kent, Edwin Albert, 1898-? Made it to England but did not see action as the war was over. Served Home Guard WWII.
17. McConnell, Malcolm, 1898-1963 Enlisted from Ohauiti. Brother of Robert McConnell, 1888-1917 .
18. Nicholas, George Puhi, 1895-1988 Māori Pioneer Battalion
19. Peek, Sinclair, Jeanne Spiers (nee Sinclair) 1881-1968 Nurse – ‘Marquette’
20. Poole, William, – Tauranga dentist – officer in the New Zealand Dental Corp.
21. Wallace, Gregory William, [Mrs E. Wallace, mother, Edgecumbe Road, Tauranga]
22. Watson, Arnold Henfrey, 1882-1960
23. Wilkinson, Lionel Roberts, 1887-1976