"THE ATTACK"
Seigfreid Sasoon

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun
In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun,
Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud
The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,
Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire.
The barrage roars and lifts. Then, clumsily bowed
With bombs and guns and shovels and battle-gear,
Men jostle and climb to meet the bristling fire.
Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,
They leave their trenches, going over the top,
While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists,
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists,
Flounders in mud. O Jesus, make it stop!

ALEXANDER McMILLAN.
1823-1892
99th REGIMENT. 40th REGIMENT. 3rd WAIKATO. REGIMENT

BATTLE HONOURS
NEW ZEALAND
1845-47. 1859-61. 1863-67.
OHAEAWAI. RUAPEKAPEKA. HUTT VALLEY. HOROKIWI. TE AREI. WAIKATO.

JOHN CROWLEY.
1809-1883
NEW ZEALAND
1863-67.
3rd WAIKATO REGIMENT.
WAIKATO

DAVID DOWNS.
1832-1892
NEW ZEALAND
1863-1867.
AUCKLAND MILITIA. 2nd WAIKATO REGIMENT.
WAIKATO.

Once more the forest, dusk and dread,
With here and there a clearing cut.
From the walled shadows around it cut;
Each with its farmhouse builded rude,
By English yoemen squared and hewed.
And the grim flankered blockhouse bound
With bristling palisades around.

Father and Son

RUEBEN NORTH.
1801-1883.
CHAPLAIN
WISCONSIN 2nd CAVALRY
UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR

Sgt. CORNELIUS NORTH.
1840-1901
WISCONSIN 2nd INFANTRY REGIMENT
UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR.

Oh, may our Stars and Stripes still wave
Forever o'er the free and brave,
Right away, come away, right away, come away.
And let our motto ever be
"For Union and for Liberty!"
Right away, come away, right away, come away.



Our two McMILLAN Brothers

WILLIAM GEORGE McMILLAN.
1876-1948
E SQUADRON NORTH ISLAND REGIMENT.
No.7076
SOUTH AFRICA.

SAMUEL McMILLAN.
1878-1940
TENTH REINFORCEMENTS.
No. 10/3019
SOUTH AFRICA.

Sons of the Colonies, Loyal to motherland,
Show Britain's enemies, We're one united band,
Rulers of Colonies, Stand by your guiding star;
Forget not "twas old England, That made us what we are.



Our Two LEARY Brothers

EDWIN BERNARD LEARY.
1894-1915.
OTAGO INFANTRY BATTALION.
No.8/1388
KILLED IN ACTION GALLIPOLI.

LEARY, Lance Corporal Edwin Bernard, who is amongst the missing, did not follow the ordinary routine of enlistment when he joined the Otago Infantry Battalion. He was 19 years of age and when war broke out he was stationed at Fort Dorset, Wellington. When the main expeditionary force was on the point of sailing, a request came to the fort for volunteers for one of the batteries. Lance Corporal Leary applied and, after practically being informed that he had been accepted, was advised that sufficient men had already come forward for the battery. He then sought a vacancy in the ASC but was unsuccessful. When the second reinforcements left he boarded the tender and subsequently the transport, without arousing suspicion as he was wearing his uniform. He was told he would be sent back when he reported himself on board but eventually he was enlisted in the OIB with which he went into action. He has a brother with the Australian troops at the Dardanelles and another is with the fifth NZ reinforcements. [AWN 01.07.1915]

GALLIPOLI.FRANCIS THOMAS LEARY.
1893-1964.
NEW ZEALAND FIELD ARTILLERY.
No.2/1803.
GALLIPOLI. WESTERN FRONT.
They were brothers in old New Zealand, They were brothers when in the camp.
They were brothers through all their training. They were brothers when on the tramp.
They were brothers in many a battle, They were brothers in many a spree.
They're still brothers and sleep together. One close beside the Aegean Sea.



SAMUEL McMILLAN.
1878-1940.
WELLINGTON REGIMENT.
GALLIPOLI. DARDENELLES.WESTERN FRONT

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.



ERNEST BENJAMIN ROBINSON
1906-1987
Chief Stoker Petty Officer
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
Service Number 1299 (14545)
P.O.W. of Japanese 3 Years

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them



Our Two NEAL Brothers.

Sgt. ERNEST NEAL.
1891-1917.
WELLINGTON REGIMENT.
No. 23/1762.
KILLED IN ACTION.
GALLIPOLI. WESTERN FRONT.

When the Boche has done your chum in,
And the sergeant's done the rum in,
And there ain't no rations comin',
Carry on.

When the world is red and reeking,
And the shrapnel shells are shrieking,
And your blood is slowly leaking,
Carry on.

Sgt. ALFRED NEAL.
1897-1918.
WELLINGTON REGIMENT.
No.23/1763.
DIED OF WOUNDS.
GALLIPOLI. WESTERN FRONT.

If you want to find the old battalion,
I know where they are,
I know where they are.
If you want to find the old battalion,
I know where they are,
They're hanging on the old barbed wire.
I've seen 'em,
I've seen 'em,
Hanging on the old barbed wire,
I've seen 'em,
I've seen 'em,
Hanging on the old barbed wire

EDMUND CHARLES HARRY MARSH.
Private. 2nd Bn, Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F.
Born London 12-12-1887
Died France 02-09-1918.
Buried Bagneux British Cemetery.
Gezaincourt near Doullens

WALTER LEONARD NEAL.
1897-1918.
NEW ZEALAND RIFLE BRIGADE.
KILLED IN ACTION.
WESTERN FRONT.

DENE LAWRENCE NEAL.
1919-1942.
No. 67234
25th Battalion.
NEW ZEALAND INFANTRY
KILLED AT SEA.

Dene was a prisoner of war aboard the Nino Bixio an Italian troop transport (7,137 tons) which was torpedoed on August 17 1942 in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Sicily, by the British submarine HMS Turbulent. She was carrying New Zealand prisoners of war captured in North Africa. The Nino Bixio was hit by two torpedoes, one exploding in the prisoners hold and killing many. The injured were brought up on deck and attended to by medical officers. The badly damaged Nino Bixio was taken in tow by one of its escorting destroyers and towed to Navarino in southern Greece. There the dead prisoners were buried, the rest were sent, via Corinth, to a prisoner of war camp near Bari. A total of 118 New Zealanders lost their lives. Dene's name is recorded on the Alamein Memorial on Column 104.
HMS TURBULENT did not survive the war and was sunk on the 12th March 1943 during her 13th patrol. None of the 59 ship’s company survived. During her short but violent career her Commanding Officer, Commander John Wallace Linton DSO, DSC was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously and the submarine was awarded the battle honour “Mediterranean 1942”.

EGYPT. MIDDLE EAST. MEDITERRANIAN SEA

I heard the sound of taps one night, when everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play and felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times that taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children, of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands with interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard at the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in War Zones, no, Freedom isn't free.

JOHN T MURRAY
1905-1974
No. 25703
7th ANTI TANK REGIMENT
MIDDLE EAST. GREECE. P.O.W.

BLAZ DOMINIKOVICH
from the village of Momici Dalmatia.
Served with Marshal Tito's Partizans in World War 2.

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