William Watson Bird was born on 8 February 1870 at Crookham Common, Crondall, Hampshire, England, the sixth child of Harriet Hale and her husband, Alfred Bird, a carpenter. The family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand,…
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Arnold Everitt Campbell was born at Karere, near Palmerston North, on 13 August 1906, the son of Mabel Annie Brooker and her husband, Fernly Charlwood Campbell, a teacher. He went to West End School and Palmerston North…
George William Clinkard was born on 17 September 1893 in Auckland, the son of English parents Cecil Henry Clinkard and his wife, Julia Letitia Hooper. His father, a farmer at Makarau on the Kaipara Harbour, was later a…
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Arthur Tyndall was born on 12 April 1891 in Dunedin, the eldest of five children of Arthur William Tyndall and his wife, Frances Lawson. He attended Bluespur School (where his father was headmaster), Lawrence District…
Jessie Alexander was born probably on 2 June 1876 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Scottish parents Mary Munro and her husband, William Alexander, a carpenter. The family came to New Zealand a year or so…
William Allan Armour was born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 30 April 1880, the son of Elizabeth Allan and her husband, Hugh Armour, a shipwright; both had been born in Scotland. William attended Arthur Street School,…
Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett was born in Dunedin on 30 April 1901, the son of Louis Edward Barnett, a surgeon, and his wife, Mabel Violet Fulton. After attending Christ’s College, Christchurch, he went on to the…
Thomas Brydone was born on 14 April 1837 at West Linton, Peeblesshire, Scotland, the son of Thomas Brydone, a shepherd, and his wife, Margaret Stewart. When Thomas junior was young the family moved to Blair Athol and he…
John Watson Cox was born at Taupiri, Waikato, on 16 September 1902, the son of James Thomas Gostick Cox, a schoolteacher (later school inspector), and his wife, Mary Alice Armstrong. After attending Auckland Grammar…
Arthur Egbert Davenport was born in Marton on 17 April 1901, the son of Samuel Johnson Davenport and his wife, Alice Cross. They ran a general store in the town. Arthur attended Marton District High School, winning…
Arthur Nelson Field was born into a prominent family in Nelson on 27 February 1882. His father, Thomas Andrew Hemming Field, had married Jessie Black on 24 May 1881, and Arthur was the eldest of their four children. His…
Walter Sydney Hammond was typical of many New Zealand police constables who could be selfless when called upon, who relished the camaraderie of their mates, and who made a difficult job more congenial by selectively…
George Vernon Hudson was born on 20 April 1867 at London, England, one of six children of Emily Jane Carnal and her husband, Charles Hudson, a professional artist–craftsman. George's mother died when he was two years…
Known throughout the British Empire in 1940 as ‘Cobber’ Kain the fighter ace, Edgar James Kain was born on 27 June 1918 at Hastings, the son of Nellie Maria Keen and her husband, George William Reginald Kain, a…
Cyril Eyton Kay was born in Auckland on 25 June 1902 to David Kay, an accountant, and his wife, Mary Butts. He lived as a child in Devonport before moving to Mangere. His first flight with one of the early barnstormers…
John Thomas Mair was born at Invercargill on 12 October 1876, the son of Catherine Hamilton and her husband, Hugh Mair, a carpenter, later a building contractor and mayor of Invercargill. John was educated at public…
Reginald Miles was born on 10 December 1892 at Springston, near Christchurch, the son of local farmers William Miles and his wife, Mary Margaret Restell. He was educated at Rangiora High School and in 1910 was…
Edward Ker Mulgan was born at Ballynahinch, County Down, Ireland, probably in 1857 or 1858, the son of Arabella Maria Stringer and her husband, the Reverend William Edward Mulgan, later rector of Dunaghy, County Antrim…
James Rutherford was born in Dunston, near Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 27 January 1906, the son of Sarah Alice Gladstone and her husband, Ralph Archibald Rutherford, a railway clerk. An able son of parents in…
Born in New Plymouth on 24 February 1918, Daniel Anthony Watkins was the fifth child and third son of Augustus Edward Watkins, a self-employed accountant, and his wife, Alice Mary Kyngdon. He attended West End School…