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1st Auckland Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force



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There are:3 items tagged 1st Auckland Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force available in our Library

  These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.


Those known to have served with

1st Auckland Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Brickdale John Bancel. Pte. (d.4th October 1917)
  • Geary William George. Pte. (d.30th Sept1916)
  • Griffin MM Arthur. Pte.
  • Hayes Robert. Pte. (d.29th Jul 1917)
  • Judson VC, DCM, MM Reginald Stanley. Maj
  • Quintall Lester Edward. Pte. (d.2nd May 1919)

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  Pte. William George Geary 16th (Waikoto) Coy. 1st Bn. Auckland Regiment (d.30th Sept1916)

William Geary was killed in action on the 30th of September 1916, aged 20. He is buried in the A.I.F. Burial Ground, Somme, France. He was the son of William and Selina Geary, of Cameron Rd., Tauranga, New Zealand and a member of Manchester U.I.O. of Oddfellows.

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  Pte. John Bancel Brickdale 1st Btn. Auckland Regiment (d.4th October 1917)

John Brickdale, son of Commander (Royal Navy) Ernest Freke & Charlotte P. Ellen Brickdale, was baptised on 11th February 1894 at St Peters church, Bedford, the family were living at 35 Foster Hill Road, Bedford. At the time the CWGC records are compiled his widowed mother is living at Harding Street, Greytown, Natal, South Africa.

He served with the 1st Battalion Auckland Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionery Force and saw action in Gallipoli. He died on 4th October 1917 in the Ypres Salient and is commemorated at the Tyne Cot Memorial. He is remembered on the War Memorial, St Peters church, Bedford A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1903-10, commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com

Caroline Hunt






  Pte. Lester Edward Quintall 1st Auckland Regiment (d.2nd May 1919)

Private Quintall was 27 when he died and is buried in the Kingston Cemetery, Norfolk Island

S Flynn






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New Zealand and the Great War: A Photographic Record of New Zealanders at War 1914-1918

Glyn Harper


They shall not grow old...In 1914, despite being forbidden, many a Kiwi soldier's kitbag included a portable camera, known as 'The Soldiers' Kodak'. In a major research project, Glyn Harper and the Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum have combined official war photographs with more informal images to produce a moving visual history. While primarily drawn from the Museum's collection, many photographs from private sources have been included. From more than 25,000 photographs, just over 800 have been selected - most of which have never been published. Chosen to depict each theatre of the 1914-18 war, including Gallipoli, Sinai-Palestine and the Western Front, poignant images from the home front are also included, along with graphic portraits of wounded soldiers, whose treatment marked the beginnings of modern plastic surgery. Despite the First World War being described as the most important and far-reaching political and military event of the twentieth century, pivotal in forging our






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