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2nd Battalion, Wellington Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force
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Pte. Percy Oldfield 2nd Battalion Wellington Regiment Percy Oldfield signed up for the military on 24 August 1915 in Trentham, Wellington, when he was 33 years old. Percy signed up as a private in the 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment and began active service on 16th of November 1915.
Five months later, he disembarked at Port Said in Egypt on 10th of April 1916 and embarked for France on 13th of April 1916. Percy Oldfield's service record shows that he arrived in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France on 16th of November 1915 when he was 33 years old. On 18th of August 1916 Percy was attached to the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company. He served with them until 31st of July 1917 at La Basse Ville, Vosges, Lorraine, France when he was wounded in action in the ankle and spent some time in the army hospital before being discharged to a hospital ship on 22nd November 1917.
On 3rd of October 1917 when he was classified as unfit for service and placed on the NZ roll.
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Cpl. Leslie Wilton Andrews VC, DSO. 2nd Battalion Wellington Infantry Regiment Leslie Wilton Andrew was born 23 March 1897 in Manawatu, New Zealand.
At 20 years old, a corporal in the 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the First World War, he was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 31 July 1917 at La Basse Ville, France:
"Corporal Andrew was in charge of a small party in an attack on the enemy's position. His objective was a machine-gun post which had been located in an isolated building, but on leading his men forward he encountered another machine-gun post which was holding up the advance of another company. He attacked it, capturing the gun and killing several of the crew. He then continued with his attack on the original objective and finally captured the post, killing a number of the enemy and putting the remainder to flight."
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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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