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Wednesday <strong>February</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2024</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
NEWS 15<br />
faded memorial to its fallen soldiers<br />
Petersen, whose age is not<br />
recorded, is also remembered<br />
at the Caterpillar Valley (New<br />
Zealand) Memorial Cemetery at<br />
Longueval, Somme, France.<br />
Huia Lyonal Wyatt, a Lance<br />
Sergeant in the Canterbury<br />
Infantry Battalion, died earlier<br />
in The Great War (19<strong>14</strong>-18). The<br />
23-year-old was shot in the head<br />
on June 21 at Gallipoli and died<br />
the following day on the hospital<br />
ship Gascon. He was buried at<br />
sea in Anzac Cove and is also<br />
memorialised at Lone Pine<br />
Cemetery.<br />
Wyatt, who left his house at<br />
Taylors Mistake to his sweetheart<br />
Hazel Davies, had his identity<br />
disc and two of his three medals<br />
on display at New Brighton<br />
Museum, the suburb where he<br />
grew up.<br />
Alfred James Francis Varney<br />
and Wilfred Henry Dean both<br />
served in the Canterbury Infantry<br />
Regiment, 1st Battalion, and<br />
died four days apart in October<br />
1916 on the Western Front in<br />
Belgium.<br />
Varney, 29, died as a Sergeant<br />
in the Canterbury Infantry, 1st<br />
Battalion, and is one of 34,931<br />
casualties remembered at the<br />
Tyne Cot Memorial.<br />
Private Dean was 21-years-old<br />
when he died of wounds and was<br />
laid to rest in Nine Elms British<br />
Cemetery.<br />
POIGNANT: Pearl Goldsmith, the sister of Stanley Kingdon,<br />
unveils a memorial plaque including her sibling’s name<br />
which was added to the war memorial cairn in 1948.<br />
Richard Butler, a Private in<br />
the New Zealand Medical Corp,<br />
succumbed to illness in Belgium<br />
on December <strong>14</strong>, 1917, aged 25.<br />
He is buried at the Wimereux<br />
Communal Cemetery in France.<br />
English-born New Zealand<br />
Entrenching Battalion Private<br />
James Brown, 29, returned to<br />
his homeland in early 1918 and<br />
was killed in action in northern<br />
France on April 16. His name is<br />
included at the Messines Ridge<br />
(New Zealand) memorial in<br />
Belgium.<br />
Private Douglas Hodgson from<br />
the New Zealand Medical Corps<br />
survived the war only to be killed<br />
in England when he was struck<br />
by a train on May 21, 1919. The<br />
30-year-old is buried in Brookwood<br />
Military Cemetery, Surrey.<br />
While the club’s WW1 dead<br />
fought on land, their WW2<br />
counterparts met their fates in<br />
contrasting theatres of war.<br />
Frank Wakefield Upton, a<br />
Flight Sergeant with the Royal<br />
Air Force, was a bomb aimer<br />
on a Stirling when the aircraft<br />
was shot down during a raid<br />
over Denmark on April 21, 1943.<br />
The 28-year-old is buried in the<br />
Graveland Cemetery, Esbjerg.<br />
OLYMPIAN: David Lindsay,<br />
left, represented New<br />
Zealand at swimming at<br />
the 1928 Olympic Games in<br />
Amsterdam.<br />
Fellow RAF airman Thomas<br />
Harold Hatchard joined Taylors<br />
Mistake from Wellington, where<br />
he was a member of the Lyall <strong>Bay</strong><br />
Surf Club.<br />
The 31-year-old is presumed<br />
to have died on September 4,<br />
1943, when the Lancaster bomber<br />
he was piloting failed to return<br />
from a mission over the German<br />
capital, Berlin.<br />
Stanley Lange Kingdon, 24,<br />
was aboard the HMS Neptune<br />
as a Royal New Zealand Naval<br />
Volunteer Reserve able seaman<br />
when the light cruiser struck several<br />
mines in the Mediterranean<br />
and sank off Tripoli, Libya, on<br />
December 19, 1941.<br />
There was only one survivor<br />
from a crew of 766.<br />
Philip Brabham Levy, a Major<br />
WINNERS: Stanley Kingdon,<br />
back row fourth from left,<br />
was a member of multiple<br />
title-winning teams before<br />
going to war in 1941.<br />
in the New Zealand Artillery, 4<br />
Field Regiment, was serving in<br />
Egypt when killed in action on<br />
July 24, 1942, aged 35.<br />
Lieutenant David Powell<br />
Lindsay, 37, of the 26 Infantry<br />
Battalion, who represented New<br />
Zealand at swimming at the<br />
1928 Olympics in Amsterdam,<br />
was killed along with several<br />
members of his platoon when<br />
they were struck by a shell while<br />
fighting in Italy on December 12,<br />
1943.<br />
Frank Griffith Bristed was the<br />
club’s first – and oldest – WW2<br />
casualty when the 40-year-old<br />
Private in 20 Infantry Battalion<br />
died of wounds on May 21,<br />
1941, while stationed in Egypt.<br />
He is buried in the Cairo War<br />
Cemetery.<br />
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