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Military Monday:- New Zealand Rifle Brigade, Egypt

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Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19160803-44-1
THE LAST RESTING-PLACE IN THE LONELY DESERT:
A BURIAL SERVICE AT MERSA MATRUH, IN EGYPT,
IN THE FOREGROUND BEING THE HEADSTONE ERECTED IN MEMORY OF
A MEMBER OF THE NEW ZEALAND RIFLE BRIGADE.

Military Monday: World War One memorials in Symonds St Cemetery

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Although Symonds Street Cemetery was closed to new burial plots in 1886, people continued to be buried there if they had family already there right up until 1950s - from the end of 1909, they had the added requirement of needing to also be over 50 years of age.
  
Private William Parker, Heritage Images: Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 31-P2442
Full length portrait of Private William Parker, Reg No 38740,
of the Auckland Infantry Regiment,
22nd Reinforcements, - E Company.
Killed in action in France on 4th October 1917
at the Battle of Passchendaele.

Heritage Images: 'Sir George Grey Special Collections,
Auckland Libraries, 31-P2442'  
 

However, there are 11 names associated with World War One noted in the Cemetery. Memorials were erected for soldiers lost in action. These are:
  • Sapper Walter Edwin Clarke (4/516) who was killed in action on Gallipoli on 7 August 1915.
  • Sapper Alfred Ernest Drummond (12/2687) who was killed in action in France on 4 October 1917.
  • Private Walter Drummond (12/3307) who was killed in action in France on 26 September 1916.
  • Private Thomas William Hobson (12/3681) who was killed in action in France on 7 July 1916.
  • Corporal Leonard Ivy Joseph McCarthy (24663) who was killed in action in France on 17 February 1918.
  • Private Ernest Wieland Monk of the Royal Fusiliers who died in France on 12 March 1916.
  • Lance Corporal Charles Stanley Nicholson (23/535) who was killed in action in France on 15 September 1916.
  • Corporal Edward John Parker (2/2896) who was killed in action in France on 26 September 1918.
  • Private William Parker (38740) who was killed in action in France on 4 October 1917.
  • Rifleman Stanley William Rowe (26690) who was killed in action in France on 12 June 1917.
  • Wesley Neal Spragg, Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in action in Egypt on 1 January 1918.

David Verran

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