HANSEN REGINALD HERBERT: NEW ZEALAND SOLDIER WWI - 24/530 AND POW

Bert Hansen’s daughter-in-law Kath Hansen has published several books elaborating Hansen’s memoirs.

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• In Pursuit of Freedom: The Unique Story of a New Zealand POW in World War One

• In the Field – Mud and Blood on the Western Front

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Army Records:

Auckland Museum: 

Archives New Zealand: 

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Picture: Hansen after the war with unknown friend

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BLEMMINGS WILLIAM R:

Native of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 8th City of London Post Office Rifle Brigade, Private, Reg. No. 3393.

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Picture courtesy Courtesy Nigel Henderson, Great War Ulster Newspaper Archive 

SKINNER JOHN STUART (JACK)

John (Jack) Stuart SKINNER, enlisted originally in 1914 with the Otago (New Zealand) Infantry Battalion, No. 8/105.

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Photo courtesy Freddy Declerck and Skinner Family.

MCNAMARA THOMAS

Soldier of the Royal Irish Regiment hailing from Hillsborough, County Down, Northern Ireland.  Posted missing on the 21st March 1918 - No further information available.