The following is a list of the men called up for military service in the No 2 Hauraki District Fourteenth Ballot - January 1916

original list taken from Ohinemuri Gazette

FIRST DIVISION MEN
* ABBOTT, Thomas Robert, (1883-1976) Hauraki Plains
* ANDERSON, William, Waihou

* BAKER, William George Robert, Ashburton

* DALEY, Nelson John, Waihi
* DURBIN, Austin Gilbert, 1896-1972) Wharepoa

* ELLIOTT, Arthur, Thames

* HARRIS, Frank, Morrinsville
* HORN, James Russell, (1897-1980) Waihou

* KILBRIDE, James Herbert, (1898-1968) Morrinsville
* KNEEBONE, Frank Leslie, (1890-1967) Hinuera

* LLOYD, Norman Reginald, (1897-198) Waihi
* LUSBY, John Fletcher, (1899-1959) Manawaru

* MAWER, Valentine Payne, (1896-1958) Rotoroa Island
* McENTEER, Claude, Waihi
- died of disease 15th Sep 1918 in UK

* O'BRIEN, Percy Francis, (1885-1958) Morrinisville

* PERRY, Thomas, Netherton

* REDDY, Patrick Dennis, (1898-1934) Coromandel
* RICE, William, Waihou

* SCHEARER, Charles Alphonso, Waharoa

* THORP, Henry Richard, (1897-1983) Paeroa
- son of Alfred Joshua THORP & Anna Susannah HORGAN

* WORTH, Edwin, Waihi
- died of wounds 10th Jan 1918 in France


SECOND DIVISION MEN
* ALDRICH, Cecil Harold, (1886-1968) Kaihere, Morrinsville

* BAKER, Felix, (1880-1944) Cabbage Bay (now named Colville
* BANKS, Edwin Gripper, Waihi
* BARNETT, Stanley Gordon, (1886-1974) Tirau
* BENSON, Lawson, (1872-1943) Waihi
* BLUNDELL, Henry Thomas, (1880-1951) Mangaiti
* BRIDSON, John Moore, (1880-1923) Coromandel
* BROWN, Edmund Ewart, (1888-1961) Waihi
* BRUNTON, Edgar, (1889-1965) Waihi
* BRYAN, Frederick Joseph Richard, (1889-1965) Mercury Bay
* BURROWS, William Dutton, (1879-1922) Opotiki
* BYGRAVE, Ernest James, (1887-1967) Te Aroha

* CAISLEY, William, (1878-1935) Thames
* CASSRELS, Lewis Emanuel, (1882-1970) Paeroa
* CATON, James, (1880-1965) Te Aroha
* CLEASBY, Charles Anthony, (1882-1951) Hamilton
* COOPER, Charles Herbert, Cambridge
* CORRINGHAM, Roy, (1890-1968) Paeroa
* CUFF, Herbert Edwin, Walton (between Morrinsville & Matamata)

* DAWSON, Henry, Karangahake

* EARL, Frederick Halson, (1880-1947) Matamata

* FEARN, Charles Thomas, (1877-1948) Thames
* FISHER, Lawrence Trevellyan, (1894-1950) Tararu Thames
* FORD, Bruce, Waihi

* GARDNER, Jonah, (1886-1957) Thames
* GREENBURY, Edgar Amen, (1886-1918) Okoroire, SOuth Waikato
* GREENWOOD, Bert George, Paeroa

* HAGAN, William Henry, (1883-1962) Waimauku
* HANNA, John Leslie, Paeroa
* HARVEY, Samuel, Manawaru
* HEENEY, John, (1887-1943) Waihi
* HIRST, Albert, (1891-1970) Te Aroha
* HOFFMAN, William Augustus, Waihi
* HORN, James Frederick, Waihi
* HOUSLER, Henry Frederic, (1884-1956) Netherton, Hauraki
* HUNT, Alfred, Waikino

* IVEY, Edward John, (1883-1918) Paeroa

* JILLETT, Herbert Harry, (1883-1962) Komata North

* KALIDAS, Madhav, Waitoa
* KELLY, Rondald John, (1892-1963) Turua
* KIDD, James Charles, (1881-1921) Thames

* LAYCOCK, Percy Laurence, (1884-1962) Tahuna
* LIPSHAM, William Henry, (1882-1942) Paeroa

* McARTHUR, Duncan Thomas Bilston, (1878-1955) Waihi
* McBRIDE, Wallace, Waitoa
* McGREGOR, Henry Davis, (1890-1973) Tairua
* McMILLAN, William Thomas, Pukeurua
* MARTIN, Albert Ernest, (1888-1948) Paeroa
* MARTIN, Wilfred, (1878-1954) Morrinsville
* MAUDE, Arthur Fenwick, (1878-1956) Netherton
* MONCUR, Alexander Francis, (1888-1976) Tirau
* MOON, Norman John, Waihi

* NEW, George Henry, (1886-1958) Thames
* NEWMAN, Ernest Francis, (1887-1964) Thames

* OATES, John, Waihi
* O'CONNOR, James, Te Aroha

* PALTRIDGE, Frederick, (1881-1952) Karangahake
* PETER, George, (1877-1960) Waikino
* PINDER, Joseph, (1877-1965) Paeroa

* QUICK, Ernest Valentine, (1889-1957) Paeroa

* RAE, Clifton Campbell, (1890-1973) Thames
* REILLY, Patrick, Waii
* ROBINSON, James Nelson, (1883-1955) Waihi
* ROGERS, Henry John, Morrinsville

* SCANDRETT, Arthur Cyril, (1881-1932) Waihi
* SENIOR, Regnald Thomas, (1884-1927) Karangahake
* SMITH, James Watt, (1881-1957) Whitianga
* SMITH, Stanley, Thames
* SMITH, Stanley John d'Azire, (1885-1928) Whitianga
* SORENSON, William Middleton, Paeroa
* STEPHENSON, Stephen William, Patetonga
* SUTTON, Joseph Roland, (1888-1952) Karangahake

* THOMPSON, Samuel Neil, (1874-1955) Waihi
* TOPP, John Bethbridge, (1877-1926) Gumtown (Kapowai)
* TORRENS, Samuel, Waihi

* WARD, John William, Cabbage Bay
* WHEATLEY, George, (1885-1943) Morrinsville
* WHITEHEAD, John, Waihi
* WHITING, Richard, Waitoa
* WILLIAMS, William Harold, Waihi
* WILSON, William Sinclair, (1878-1955) Matamata
* WRIGHT, Douglas E, Te Aroha



PHOTO
The Talisman Gold Mine. Karangahake Gorge at Waitawheta c1916. Includes the Woodstock Shaft, originally built by the Woodstock Gold Mining Company Ltd. The Mines in these districts were where many of these young men (and their forefathers) would have worked
Photograph taken by A. P. Godber (Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library)