New Zealand Expeditionary Force Reserve - Div. I - South Canterbury- 1916
The First Division of the Reserve consists of men, natural-born British
subjects, not less than twenty and under forty-six years of age, who are
unmarried, or who married since the 1st May, 1915, and have no children under
sixteen, or who are divorced or judicially separated from their wives and have
no children under years of age. The Second Division consists of all other
Reservists.
The place of residence, so far as known to the Government Statistician, at the
date of the constitution of the recruiting districts (25th September, 1916)
determines the district register because of any change in his residence after
enrollment. Any names incorrectly included or omitted, or any other errors in
this roll, should be at once reported to the Government statistician at
Wellington.
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Roll of men in First Division of Reserve for No. 10 (South Canterbury) recruiting District. Comprising the counties (within interior Boroughs) of Ashburton, Geraldine, Levels, Waimate and Mackenzie. This roll is a copy (at the date when compiled - September, 1916) of the Register of the First Division of the Reserve for the above district, and is printed and circulated for public exhibition and inspection at all Post, Recruiting and Defence Offices and Police-stations in the recruiting district.
Reserves - 59 pages with approx. 55-60 names per page so approximately 3250 names
for South Canterbury. (First roll)
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George Acton 1917 - Pleasant Point Herbert George Appleton 1917 - Pleasant Point Alfred Bampton 1917 - Pleasant Point William John Barker 1917 - Pleasant Point William Joseph Francis Barnett 1916 - Pleasant Point Patrick Barry 1916 - Pleasant Point James Richard Beattie 1916 - Pleasant Point James Bell 1916 - Pleasant Point Laveri Beri 1917 - Pleasant Point Herbert William Bishop 1917 - Pleasant Point Francis George Blackmore 1916 - Pleasant Point Henry Mark Bloomfield 1917 - Pleasant Point Mark Lovell Bracefield 1917 - Pleasant Point George Bray 1916 - Pleasant Point Daniel Joseph Breen 1916 - Pleasant Point John Breen 1916 - Pleasant Point James Brennan 1916 - Pleasant Point William Brien 1916 - Pleasant Point Kyran Brophy 1917 - Pleasant Point William Budell 1916 - Pleasant Point Albert Burrows 1917 - Pleasant Point Walter Burrows 1917 - Pleasant Point Edward Butler 1917 - Pleasant Point Patrick Cassidy 1917 - Pleasant Point Sylvister Bartholomew Cavanagh 1916 - Pleasant Point Charles William Chapman 1917 - Pleasant Point Francis Raymond Chapman 1917 - Pleasant Point James Edward Chapman 1917 - Pleasant Point Alexander Chisholm 1917 - Pleasant Point Charles Chivers 1917 - Pleasant Point Robert Bruce Clarke 1917 - Pleasant Point James Cleland 1917 - Pleasant Point Cyril Leslie Collins 1916 - Pleasant Point Michael Francis Collins 1917 - Pleasant Point Henry Cook 1917 - Pleasant Point Edward Corbitt 1916 - Pleasant Point William Henry Cox 1917 - Pleasant Point John Cunningham 1917 - Pleasant Point Thomas William Dodds 1917 - Pleasant Point Edward Dollimore 1917 - Pleasant Point John Bainbridge Drake 1916 - Pleasant Point Henry Elms 1917 - Pleasant Point John Fenwick 1917 - Pleasant Point Harold Percy Frewer 1917 - Pleasant Point Patrick Friel 1916 - Pleasant Point T. Bruce Garrick 1916 - Pleasant Point Arthur Gascoyne 1917 - Pleasant Point Richard Gliddon 1917 - Pleasant Point Samuel George Gliddon 1917 - Pleasant Point George Godfrey Gould 1916 - Pleasant Point Magnus Green 1917 - Pleasant Point Thomas Green 1917 - Pleasant Point John Michael Griffin 1917 - Pleasant Point Walter Edward Aker Gudex 1917 - Pleasant Point James Hall 1916 - Pleasant Point John Henry Hall 1916 - Pleasant Point Ellison Metcalfe Halstead 1917 - Pleasant Point James Hamilton 1916 - Pleasant Point John Joseph Hawkins 1916 - Pleasant Point James Hazlett 1916 - Pleasant Point David Keith Henderson 1917 - Pleasant Point Leslie A G Hight 1916 - Pleasant Point William Hill 1917 - Pleasant Point Andrew Howden 1917 - Pleasant Point John Henry Hullen 1916 - Pleasant Point Peter Hullen 1916 - Pleasant Point Horace Ireland 1917 - Opihi Pleasant Point John Lumsden Jopp 1917 - Pleasant Point Daniel Corlett Kee 1917 - Pleasant Point |
Edward Joseph Kelly 1916 - Pleasant Point Henry Kelly 1917 - Pleasant Point Alfred Kerslake 1917 - Pleasant Point Gilbert Kerslake 1917 - Pleasant Point Frank Kirkby 1916 - Pleasant Point Charles Ley 1917 - Pleasant Point Emil Theodore Lienert 1917 - Pleasant Point Thomas Henry Love 1917 - Pleasant Point Frederick Lund 1916 - Pleasant Point John McCann 1917 - Pleasant Point Norman Edward McIntosh 1916 - Pleasant Point Albert McIntyre 1916 - Pleasant Point David Miller 1917 - Pleasant Point Hugh Bourne Moore 1917 - Pleasant Point Thomas Francis Morrison 1916 - Pleasant Point Frank Muir 1916 - Pleasant Point Patrick Murphy 1917 - Pleasant Point James Alfred Neilson 1916 - Pleasant Point Francis Nelligan 1917 - Pleasant Point James Otto Nelson 1917 - Pleasant Point Maurice O'Connell 1917 - Pleasant Point Otway Ernest Oliver 1916 - Pleasant Point Valentine Perniskie 1917 - Pleasant Point James Harvey Pye 1916 - Pleasant Point Horace Algnernon Rayner 1916 - Pleasant Point Alfred Sargisson 1917 - Pleasant Point Francis Mervyn James Simmons 1917 - Pleasant Point David Millar Skinner 1917 - Pleasant Point Ernest Smith 1917 - Pleasant Point John Alfred Smith 1917 - Pleasant Point Raymond Albert Smith 1917 - Pleasant Point Samuel Smith 1917 - Pleasant Point Albert Sorraghan 1916 - Pleasant Point David Southby 1916 - Pleasant Point Albert James Stephens 1917 - Pleasant Point John Stumbles 1916 - Pleasant Point Patrick Sullivan 1916 - Pleasant Point Samuel Ernest Talbot 1917 - Pleasant Point Walter Henry Talbot 1917 - Pleasant Point George Tennant 1917 - Pleasant Point Frank Thomas 1916 - Pleasant Point Henry John Tozer 1917 - Pleasant Point Ernest Turner 1916 - Pleasant Point James Sinclair Vickers 1916 - Kakahu Pleasant Point John Charles Voight 1917 - Pleasant Point John Harris Walters 1917 - Pleasant Point John Wilson 1917 - Pleasant Point Richard Woods 1917 - Pleasant Point Edward Wooffindin 1916 - Opuha Pleasant Point Ernest Williamson Workman 1916 - Pleasant Point John Agnew Wright 1916 - Pleasant Point Charles Edward Smith 1916 - Timaru David Smith 1916 - Timaru David John Smith 1916 - Washdyke Levels David Roy Thomas Smith 1916 - Timaru Edward Henry Smith 1916 - Levels Francis Middleton Smith 1916 - Timaru Harry Smith 1916 - Timaru Henry James Smith 1916 - Pareora West Hugh Nevill Smith 1916 - Timaru James Smith 1916 - Timaru John Scanes Smith 1916 - Timaru Leonard Gordon Smith 1916 - Timaru Leslie John Smith 1916 - Levels Oswald Mccallum Smith 1916 - Levels Becken Smith 1917 - Timaru Cecil Henry Smith 1917 - Timaru David Smith 1917 - Washdyke |
In 1910-1911 New Zealand organised a Territorial Force of some 30,000 men, with permanent staff and an expanded General Headquarters. New weapons and improved training meant that when war broke out on 4 August 1914, New Zealand was able to offer Britain an expeditionary force immediately. Voluntary recruitment for the ‘New Zealand Expeditionary Force’ (NZEF) – began on 8 August 1914. By the end of the first week of the war 14,000 had enlisted. The troop convoy carrying the Main Body of the NZEF left Wellington harbour bound for Egypt on 16 October 1914. The NZEF portion of the convoy consisted of 8534 soldiers and their horses embarked on ten transport ships. The NZEF contributed an infantry brigade and they landed in the Dardanelles on 25 April 1915. The New Zealanders landed 8556, 4852 NZ forces wounded, 2721 NZ forces fatalities during the eight-month (260 - days) Gallipoli campaign. New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade of the NZEF returned to Egypt, where it was rested and reinforced during the first four months of 1916. When the New Zealand Division left for France, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles regiments remained behind to serve in the Sinai campaign of 1916 and then in the Palestine campaign of 1917–18. The New Zealand Division suffered 7048 casualties in only 23 days on the Somme.
The First Division, originally totalled 84,966
men, was considerably drawn upon by voluntary enlistment.
•Total mobilised during the war: 117,175
•Served overseas: 103,000
•Casualties (NZEF) Dead (all causes): 16,918
•Casualties (NZEF) Wounded: 41,317