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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: WW1 New Zealand Soldiers
« on: Tuesday 23 April 13 08:04 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Helenw52 on Tuesday 23 April 13 08:00 BST (UK)
There's someone in Australia trying to track any Chinese  servicemen from WW1. Has anyone come across any of these men? I know there were men from WW11 - but didn't think there were any WW1 servicemen.

Hi Helen,

There were some men of Chinese descent who served in the NZEF, in fact we were sent a photo of 54750 Pte. Eang King How-Chow just 2 days ago!

Regards
Matt

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: WW1 New Zealand Soldiers
« on: Tuesday 23 April 13 08:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi Minniehaha,

We published a photo of John Robertson Dodds in Volume 1, from the Auckland Weekly News, but if you have a better photo we would love a copy.

We have recorded a photograph of William Alexander Hammond in the the Otago Witness, but once again, if you have an original photo of William we would be thrilled to use it.

And yes, the 500+ nurses of the NZEF are being included, and as yet we have not recorded a photo for Jean Curle Dodds, so would love a copy of that too!

Regards
Matt

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: WW1 New Zealand Soldiers
« on: Tuesday 23 April 13 06:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi Suzy,

Thats great news. Have just checked, and we do not have a photo of Edward Watkins either.

Regards
Matt

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: James GOATER NZ Army WWI
« on: Tuesday 23 April 13 06:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi Big Guy,

If you are in communication with the family, could you perhaps enquire if they have a photograph of James we could use for our project? There was only one Goater in the entire NZEF!

Regards
Matt

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: WW1 New Zealand Soldiers
« on: Tuesday 23 April 13 05:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi Suzy,

Thank you for your kind words. We would love to be able to include your photos.

Looking at your names of interest I see you list Tew as a surname. There were only 4 Tew's who served in the NZEF, Arthur, Harold Percival, Leslie George and Stanley, and at this stage we do not have photos of any of them!

There are even fewer Pentecost's, with only the 2, Clarence Cecil Stanley and Edward, and we do not have photos of either of them.

And of course we would welcome any Lyall, Watkin, or Whitakers you may have!

Look forward to hearing from you

Matt
Onward Project

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: WW1 New Zealand Soldiers
« on: Sunday 21 April 13 08:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi Twiggy, thank you ever so much for linking up our FB page. It's only new, but seems to be attracting attention.

Hi Kahu, photos in civvies is fine. If you like just scan as best you can and we can crop out your relative.


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New Zealand Completed Requests / WW1 New Zealand Soldiers
« on: Sunday 21 April 13 03:35 BST (UK)  »
Hello all,

I am one of the founders of the Onward Project. We are a none profit group who are working on a project for the 100th Anniversary of WW1 (we are recognised by the NZ government's WW100 Centenary organisation). Our aim is to publish a photograph of each man and woman that served overseas between 1914-1918 as part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. It is a fairly ambitious project, with around 100,000 photos to find, but we have already published the first volume with over 4,100 portraits, and we are well on our way to completing volume 2.

We are asking for help from the public to submit photos of their family members that served, and have found the genealogical people of great help!!!

If you can help by supplying a photo they can be sent to onwardnzef.book[at]gmail.com

Thank you

Phil Beattie & Matt Pomeroy
Onward Project

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