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2 THE PROJECT 1. To photograph all the war graves and primary memorials of New Zealanders who, serving with New Zealand and Allied forces, died in conflicts, from the Anglo-Boer war ( ), to present-day peacekeeping operations. 2. To create a digital archive and database, accessed via a website, enabling free public access to their biographical information and images. What is a war grave? The grave of a serviceman or woman who died on active service or as a consequence of injury or illness from their war service. (Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History. McGibbon ed. Oxford University Press 2000.) How many war graves are there? There are 30,321 New Zealand war graves in 77 countries. Our research to date has identified more than 2000 New Zealanders serving with other Allied forces. Where are the war graves? The largest numbers are in France (7776), Belgium (4711), Egypt (2924,) Italy (2157), Turkey (2348), the UK (2105), and New Zealand (3548). In some places there are only one or two graves the Faroe Islands, Bulgaria and Kenya, for example. Why isn t the Government doing this project? The New Zealand Government is correctly the official keeper of New Zealand s war records and associated activities but has no specific mandate for such a global photographic project. Does this project duplicate what other groups or authorities are doing? No. This is the only New Zealand project dedicated to a complete photographic and biographical record of New Zealand s war casualties and is the most comprehensive approach to this goal. For example, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage looks after war graves in New Zealand and the Pacific; it has no intention to have a website with photographs of them. What is it going to cost? The original budget was, at 2006, $1.2 million, including research, photography and creation of the archive, database and website. This was based on a three-year schedule. There have been some increases in cost since our original estimates. Who pays for it? The New Zealand War Graves Trust as a registered charity applies for funds from charitable trusts, foundations and other funders or sponsors for each step of the project. Our first grant was from Veterans Affairs, in 2006, as a Year of the Veteran initiative.

3 Is the New Zealand War Graves Project an official project? Although a private initiative by a small group of New Zealanders, the project has the support of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage, the leaders of most political parties in New Zealand, the Chief of New Zealand Defence Force, the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association (RNZRSA), the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, local authorities and charitable foundations who have given grants to the project. Is there a complete Roll of Honour that is accessible by the public? Currently, there is no complete listing available in one clearly defined system as a full Roll of Honour for the period that our project covers. This is now available on our website. It is the first time that a complete Roll of Honour of New Zealanders including those that served with other forces is publicly available in one place. Where does the information about the war graves come from? From a number of sources, including the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in England (with which the New Zealand War Graves Trust has a contract), the Ministry for Culture and Heritage lists in New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, the Trust s research, official war histories, the Cenotaph database of service records at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand historians, school and workplace rolls of honour and family records. How did the project start? One of the trustees, Dennis Kerins, came up with the idea as a result of a request from an elderly woman regarding the grave of her wartime fiancé who had died on Crete in World War II. It was clear that she would never make the trip to Crete and that a photograph of the grave meant a lot to her. Where can I get to see photographs of a family member, friend or colleague who died in war? Access is free through the New Zealand War Graves Trust website which will be eventually associated with Auckland War Memorial Museum. Top left: Lance Corporal Angus McAulay, Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Libya. (awaiting new headstone). Bottom left: Private Ernest Prin Smith, 8th Contingent, Waikaraka Park Cemetery, Onehunga, Auckland, NZ. Below: Sergeant Angus McCaffry, Carew (St Mary s Churchyard), Wales. The website, has been created by Zest Media Ltd. thanks to a grant from the Lotteries Environment and Heritage Committee. THE PHOTOGRAPHS What will the photographs show? The photographs show the headstone or memorial of each individual serviceman or servicewoman. There are also photographs of the cemeteries and the surrounds. The archive will contain some 90,000 images on completion of the project. Currently the website contains some 14,000 images. How are the photographs obtained? The New Zealand War Graves Trust enters into contracts with experienced photographers who must meet a professional standard of photography, and who are provided with detailed research to enable the accurate identification of individual graves and memorials. Why not use volunteers or people on holiday to take photographs at our cemeteries? It is crucial to have a uniform quality of photography for use in the professional design of the website and for the creation of a national archive. Supporting this approach, the Auckland War Memorial Musuem says the work the Trust is doing to create high-resolution images of an archival standard is very valuable to the entire country.

4 THE PEOPLE Who is doing this Project? PATRON -Rt. Hon. Sir Don McKinnon ONZ, GCVO A Member of the New Zealand Parliament from 1978 to 2000, Sir Don has held the positions of Senior Whip, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Minister of Pacific Island Affairs and Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control. He oversaw New Zealand s election to the UN Security Council. In 1999 he was elected to the office of Commonwealth Secretary General, a position he held from 2000 to In 2007 he was appointed to the Order of New Zealand, and in 2009, appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) by the Queen, for services to the Commonwealth. Sir Don has recently been appointed to the position of Chairman, Regional Facilities, Auckland. Above: Lieutenant Stanley Kidd, Papakura Cemetery, New Zealand. Below: Sergeant John Lloyd of Dannevirke, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand. TRUSTEES and Advisory Trustees Terry Snow has been a journalist for more than 30 years and is a former editor of the Listener. He is currently editor of The Shed magazine and a member of the Arts Board of Creative New Zealand. Derrick Bunn is a photographer, videographer and sometime writer. His photographs have appeared in the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Geographic and the Listener magazine. Dennis Kerins works in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Auckland designing interactive educational material. Through Askance Digital Design he has designed, created, and maintained web sites and has considerable experience in digital image manipulation, website design and structures, graphic design, educational design and writing. Rebecca Macky is a resource management lawyer with more than 25 years experience. A former partner of the law firm Bell Gully, she now runs her own legal practice and acts as an Independent Commissioner hearing resource management applications on behalf of various Councils. Together with her husband, she is also a director of Brigadier Tours Limited, which takes small groups to places where New Zealanders fought in World Wars I and II, with a special interest in Crete.. Vincent Lipanovich is Visitor Services Manager at the Auckland War Memorial Museum where he has been employed in variety of programming roles since He also has specialist roles relating to the war memorial and protocol functions of the Museum. He has an MA (Hons) in history from the University of Auckland. Dan Stevenson is a consultant with the Wellington law firm Izard Weston where he was a partner from 1964 to He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate, Victoria University and Cambridge University and was admitted to the United Kingdom bar. He has been a director of several companies and served for 19 years on the board of Works Consultancy/ Opus International Consultants Ltd. He has had a lifelong association with farming through his 2000 acre property at Titahi Bay and he was president of the Wellington Club from 2007 to He comes from a family with long military associations his son was a Major with the SAS and has a particular interest in military aircraft. Roy Clare was appointed Director of Auckland War Memorial Museum in He was Chief Executive of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council in the UK from 2007 and from 2000 to 2007 Director of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. A former Royal Navy admiral, Roy Clare was awarded the CBE in June 2007 for his services to museums. A keen yachtsman, he competed in the first Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race in 1974.

5 New Zealand graves in St Nicholas Churchyard, Brockenhurst, England, which was the site of a New Zealand hospital in WW1 PROGRESS ONE- Funding. Funding to date: Obtaining photographs: $265,125 Administration, research, internal travel: $25,000 SKYCITY Auckland Community Trust. Photographic equipment: $18,000 Southern Trust, Scottwood Trust. Start-up costs, computers, software, storage servers and initial website : $26,740 Veterans Affairs, South Auckland Charitable Trust Pelorus Trust, Trillian Trust and Caversham Foundation. Website and database creation: $49,500 Lotteries Environment and Heritage Committee. Exhibition Stands $6790 The Officers Club. Pacific post-production and research $10,000 Pharazyn Trust. Funding required to complete: Ongoing cataloguing and processing images for website and archive: $18,500 Ongoing website creation and content: $50,000 Photographs of war graves: UK/ Republic of Ireland: $42,000 Western Front/eastern Europe: $ 250,000 Northern Europe/Scandinavia: $40,000 Gallipoli, Pakistan, Middle East, India: $95,000 Americas: $31,000 Exhibition operating costs: $70,000 Upgrading capital equipment: $30,000 Ongoing research (2 years FTE): $100,000

6 STAGE ONE: New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. New Zealand, 3584 Western Samoa, 12 Fiji, 33 Tonga, 3 New Caledonia 539 recieved from: The Trusts Charitable Foundation and the Caversham Foundation STAGE TWO: Hong Kong to Australia. Hong Kong, 1 Korea, 38 Japan, 41 South Africa, 210 Australia, 37 Funding for this stage was received from the Caversham Foundation STAGE THREE: South - east Asia. Thailand, 3, Myanmar, 7 India, 8, Bangladesh, 6, Malaysia, 28, Singapore 77, Indonesia,3. received from the First Sovereign Trust Photographs above, left to right: Trooper Herbert Fordham, Otahuhu Anglican Cemetery, Auckland. Leading Aircraftman Daniel Stewart, Heathcote Cemetery, Victoria, Australia and Pilot Officer Eric Pedersen, Bhowanipore Cemetery, Kolkata, India.

7 STAGE FOUR: Italy and Greece. Switzerland, 4 Greece, 1148 Italy, 2157 received from the First Sovereign Trust, the North and South Trust, Pub Charity, the Four Winds Foundation, the Mt. Wellington Foundation, the Eureka Trust and the Whitehouse Tavern Trust STAGE FIVE: The Balkans, North Africa and Spain. Serbia, 15, Bulgaria, 3, Turkey, 3, Syria, 58, Egypt, 2957, Libya, 560, Tunisia, 343, Spain, 4, Gibraltar, 13 received from the First Sovereign Trust, the Four Winds Foundation and the Mt. Wellington Foundation. STAGE SIX: Scotland, Wales and England (Smaller Cemeteries) Scotland, 137 Wales, 28 England, 912 received from the Four Winds Foundation, the Mt. Wellington Foundation and SKYCITY Auckland Community Trust. Photographs above, left to right: Trooper Harry Dobson, of Nelson, serving with the Royal Tank Regiment, Gradara Cemetery, Italy. Sgt. John Carr, Damascus War Cemetery, Syria and Sub Lt.(A) Edward Hewetson, Lyness Naval Cemetery, Orkney, Scotland WHITEHOUSE TAVERN TRUST

8 Signalman Ernie Myers parachuted into enemy-held territory near Mount Mentawir on 30 March 1945, but landed with two other operatives inside a Japanese camp area. They resisted strongly, but the Australian in the party was killed and Myers was captured along with the Malay interpreter of the group. Both men were tortured for three days, before being beheaded. Their bodies were recovered soon after the Japanese surrender when Lieutenant Bob Tapper, another New Zealander who was working with the War Graves Commission, discovered their remains. Evidence given to the commission by native witnesses ensured that the Japanese involved paid the penalty for this atrocity. His remains are interred in Labuan War Cemetery, Federal Territory of Malaysia. Wigzell, Francis (2001). New Zealand Army Involvement: Special Operations Australia South-West Pacific World War II. Pentland Press. ISBN P.O.BOX , PONSONBY AUCKLAND 1144 TELEPHONE: MOBILE: nzwargraves@slingshot.co.nz WEBSITE: Charities Commission Registration No. CC22146 Front Cover: El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt, mid-afternnon on New Years Day 2011.