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1st Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, New Zealand Expeditionary Force
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Cpl. Alexander MacLachlan 1st Btn. 3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade (d.4th November 1918)  Alexander MacLachlan was killed in action on 4th November 1918, aged 28. Buried in the Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension in France, he was the son of Emily Keighley (formerly MacLachlan), of Alston Hall Villa, Grimsargh, Preston, England, and the late John MacLachlan.
He emigrated to New Zealand some years before the War and was prevented from enlisting by a work agreement, he joined up in May 1915. On Christmas Day 1915 he was in action against Turkish-led Arabs in Egypt. Took part in the Somme offensive in France in 1916 and went over the top when tanks were first used. June 1917 was hit by shrapnel at Battle of Messines and returned to England and revisited the College. He was killed in almost the last offensive of the War. His officer wrote in a letter, “(He) was the most popular and capable NCO in “A†Company. I had reason to bless his cheerful disposition.†Originally buried “…in a little triangular copse alongside the railway line just south of Le Quesnoy…†(Officer’s letter.)
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Sgt. James Benjamin Hillyer A Coy. 1st NZ Rifle Brigade. He died on 7/9/72
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Recomended Reading.Available at discounted prices.
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New Zealand and the Great War: A Photographic Record of New Zealanders at War 1914-1918 Glyn Harper
They shall not grow old...In 1914, despite being forbidden, many a Kiwi soldier's kitbag included a portable camera, known as 'The Soldiers' Kodak'. In a major research project, Glyn Harper and the Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum have combined official war photographs with more informal images to produce a moving visual history. While primarily drawn from the Museum's collection, many photographs from private sources have been included. From more than 25,000 photographs, just over 800 have been selected - most of which have never been published. Chosen to depict each theatre of the 1914-18 war, including Gallipoli, Sinai-Palestine and the Western Front, poignant images from the home front are also included, along with graphic portraits of wounded soldiers, whose treatment marked the beginnings of modern plastic surgery. Despite the First World War being described as the most important and far-reaching political and military event of the twentieth century, pivotal in forging our
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