Wimbledon War Memorial

Description

There are two tablets on this stone cairn erected outside the Wimbledon School gates.

2 –

Text on plaque –

IN GRATEFUL AND HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 – 1918.

P. DORIA.
B.R. DORIA.
L. J. DORIA.
C. JENSEN.
W.J. PERRY.

3 –

Text on plaque –

THESE MEN,
FROM THE WIMBLEDON DISTRICT,
ALSO SERVED
IN THE GREAT WAR.

E. BATTERSHILL.
L.J. DONOVAN.
G.F. GARDINER.
R.T. HALES.
R. HOLMES. [HOLMS.]
L.H. HERBERT.
E.H.H. HERBERT.
G. MCKAY.
E.H. MORGANS.
A.H. MORGANS.
W.A. RICHARDSON.
J.E.L. SIMCOX.
W.A. SITEMAN.
A.A. SITEMAN.
H. WARD.
G.T. WHITE.

Research on the online Cenotaph of the Auckland War Memorial Museum has helped to establish the first names of those men who are just listed as an initial.

The following full names and military history have been sourced from the Auckland War Memorial Museum –

Doria, Birley Reginald
Regimental Number WW1 28114. Next of Kin Mrs R. Pope (mother), Wimbledon, Hawke’s Bay. Birley Doria was the son of Birley Darlington Doria (died 1898) and Helen Muriel Doria (later Pope) of Wimbledon, New Zealand. Three sons fell in WW1: Jack (23/1375), Percy (22953) and Birley (23/1375). Helen nee McKENZIE, whose three cousins; Kenzie McLean, Alexander John McLean & John Murdoch McLean (AIF) also died serving their King & Commonwealth. Died of Sickness 30th December 1916 and is buried at Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, Devon, England

Doria, Leonard Jack
Regimental Number WW1 23/1375   Born Porangahau 1897. Killed in Action 8th June 1917 aged 19Memorials Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium

Doria, Percy (Percival)
Regimental Number WW1 22953   Born 1894, Died of wounds 16th October 1917 aged 23.Cemetery Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France

Perry, William Charles
Regimental Number WW1 28198   Born 1896 Hawke’s Bay Died 29th July 1916 Trentham, Died of Sickness (Pneumonia)  Cemetery Mangatera Cemetery, Dannevirke, Tararua District, New Zealand
William Perry was the son of Charles and Jane Perry. Born at Wimbledon, Hawke’s Bay.