A Category 1 Historic Site, 'the Soldiers' Block was built in 1916 to care for returned soldiers suffering shell shock and other war-related neuroses. By Easter 1917, the Soldiers' Block housed...
Compiled by Barry O’Sullivan
Patriotic societies were establishedm throughout the country from 1915, with locally organised committees collecting funds on behalf of sick and wounded...
September 23rd marks the day that the Canterbury troopships, Athenic and Tahiti, left Lyttelton in 1914. There had been...
William grew up in children’s homes and joined the army at the age of 15 in 1894. Compared to today’s boys he was only the size of a 12-13 year old at the time. He enlisted in the West Surrey (or...
Alfred Hodge was one of eleven children of Mary and Edward Henry Hodge, from the small town of Riversdale, in Southland. He was a quiet, gentle person, called Alfie by his friends and family. One...
Henry Harrison (Harry) Bennett was the 6th of 12 children, born into a West Coast mining family of Scottish descent. He enlisted at Westport on 9 February 1916 at the age of 21 and embarked aboard...
Harry Sutherland was the 2nd of 8 children of William Sutherland (formally Paganini) and Martha Matilda Sutherland (nee Burley). He was born in the settlement of Blue Spur near Lawrence on 31st...