DOYLESTON is a small Canterbury township in the South Island of New Zealand. It was named after Joseph Hastings Doyle, a publican from Christchurch who moved to the locality. (Joseph Hastings Doyle was born in Scotland and arrived in Canterbury about 1863)

Doyleston as it was, a small township twenty-six miles south-west from Christchurch, on the Christchurch-Southbridge railway, and about one mile from the town of Leeston

Doyleston's name was once changed to Cheddar in recognition of the importance of the dairy industry to the area, however the friends of the township's namesake, Mr Doyle, argued against the change and it reverted to its original name.


the list of names was taken from the site Doyleston memorial library
... The memorial comprises a small brick library with two large white marble tablets in the entrance porch recording the names of 42 service persons who went to WWI. Of these 6 are recorded as casualties.
Of 32 servicemen who went to WWII from the district, one was killed.

Please visit that link for photos and the names as they were carved -

the names on the ROLL OF HONOUR at Doyleston memorial library
(I have put the names into alphabetical order for easier researching)
the * at a name indicates they made the 'supreme sacrifice'

WWII - 1939 - 1945

AITKEN - D. J.

BISHOP - C. J. R.

BARR - G. L.

BRAY - K. T.

BRIZZLE - W. C.

CAMPBELL - B. J.

DOHERTY - F.

FUSSELL - A. T.

GORMAN - J. K.

HURFORD - W. L.

HOSKIN - A. C.

HILL - E. G.

* JOHNSON - Lloyd Harding
- Sub Lieutenant with the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Argus, Fleet Air Arm
& HMS Sparrowhawk
- KILLED ON ACTIVE SERVICE in Orkney Islands, Scotland on 3 February 1943 aged 21
son of Ernest Alfred JOHNSON & Lucy Eva Johnson BRIGHTWELL of Leeston

MERRIMAN - C.

McCLOY - L. P.

McCABE - F. A.

MILLER - C. D.

PEARCE - E. C.

QUARTERMAINE - R. P. B.

QUARTERMAINE - W. E. S.

ROBB - D.

RIDDEN - I. A. D.

SMITH - L.? G.

SMITH - E. G.

SMITH - I. G.

STEPHENS - S. F.

SCOTT - J. K.

TWEEDIE - D. N.

TWEEDIE - R. F.

THOMPSON - K. R.

TAYLOR - C. E.

VINCE - A. E.


the names on the ROLL OF HONOUR for WWI