More Info →Notes on Annotated Shannon War Memorial

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• Ernest Henderson 10/1256 of Shannon W I B. N-O-K is R S Henderson (brother) Shannon. Not on memorial.
• Murdock W. is probably Murdoch, W, a settler.
• HAPOKA, H ikamate should be H I KAMATE , Hapoka, as per Shannon Rugby Jubilee Booklet and 1935 RSA records.
• William Henry Venn, Cpl. Occup. Wireless Engineer appointed to Wireless section. Left 15 October 1916. Probably from Shannon's Post Office. A replacement would have been required.
• Charles Vaughan, Occupation Printer. Next of kin: Clifford O'Regin (friend) Shannon, left 1916. Hard to get a replacement for him.
• Leonard Alfred Howe (2nd Vol 23/2000) Labourer.
• Robert Ephraim Selby (2nd Vol) N-O-K mother in Scotland.
• John Swanney (2nd Vol) Labourer. Died at Pahiatua camp.
• Archibald Hunter Yates (2nd Vol) Flaxmill hand. left 15 Nov 1916.
• R. Sands (2nd Vol) Bushman Sister at Port Awanui.
• J.Gardiner on. the Memorial, but the " I " is minus it's 1ead Aug. 1989. There were Gardiner & Gardner families in Shannon 1912, so the lead might have been removed because the name was
  wrong, or just fallen out.

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Date

1989