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My Great Grandfather Ernest Alfred Eyres was Great Grandfather Frank's brother.

Cecil Coleman was born in the Rangitikei 1 April 1894. [Record since amended - NZWGT]

One of three brother who went to war and did not come home.

One of three brother who went to war and did not come home.

One of three brother who went to war and did not come home.

He trained at no.9 AOS (Air Observer School) in Quebec in 1942.

Written in my father's diary. 29.3.42 - "Bad road accident Chatterton killed on leave truck".

Ben was born in London UK in 1883 and emigrated to New Zealand with his parents, Thomas and Jane

I am an UK/NZ citizen, currently residing in Porthcawl, South Wales and I have "adopted" Thomas's

Patrick Devine was born in Methil, Fife, Scotland 22 October 1891.

Cyril's DOB is 22 August 1915. [Record since amended - NZWGT]

Stanley Baldwin was born in Gore, New Zealand on the 31st October 1892, and was the ninth child o

He died from pellagra pneumonia in Shinagawa POW Hospital.

My grandmother, a nurse in Dunedin, had hoped to marry him after the war was over.

He was born on the 11th of August 1919 and went by his middle name Linton.

David Nicolson was the brother of my grandfather.