Topic: 40th Regiment, Waitara (1915)
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Military Cemetery, McLean Street, Waitara (Opposite War Memorial Hall)
Waitara 40th Regiment - 1915
Erected by the N Z Government in 1915 - one of Edith Statham's memorials.
Unveiled 24 June 1915 by local Member of Parliament W. T. Jennings.
(See Taranaki Daily News article in Documents below)
Brooke's cenotaph and memorial to others killed at Puketakauere and not recovered was presumably erected in 1860 -61. It is behind the 1915 memorial
Front
THEY LIVE IN MEMORY
BY THEIR DEEDS
ERECTED
BY THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT
1915
TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE
BRAVE MEN WHO FELL IN THE
ATTACK ON PUKETAKAUERE PAH
ON JUNE 27TH 1860
AND ALSO THOSE
WHO FELL AT THE ATTACK ON KAIRAU
ON THE 29TH DECEMBER 1860
Left Side
LIEUT BROOKS [sic]
SERGT O'CALLAGHAN CORPL SAMUEL MCBURNEY
CORP. DAVID VAHEY " EDWARD RYAN
GUNNER W. WEIR (ROYAL ARTILLERY)
PRIVATES
PATRICK BRODERICK THOMAS DUMPHEY
WM HICKEY J. DOUGLAS
WALTER SCOTT PATRICK FAGAN
JOHN DOWNES SAMUEL ALROY
W.F. PERRY JAMES GORE
JOHN WEBBER JOHN FILLINGHAM
WM HAYES H. E. MARTYN
T BRYNE J. ALLEN
ARCHIBALD MCCANN PETER MCCABE
WM CLIFF EDW. G. HARRIS
T. GILL GEO MARSDEN
WM MARKHAM FRANCIS ROBINSON
J. MACGUIRE
Rear
LEST WE FORGET
KILLED AT KAIRAU 29TH DECEMBER 1860
A BROOME; A.B. OF H.M.S. PELORUS
PRIVATE M LEHANE, 40TH REGT
J. CHINNERY
Short NP
Right Side
40TH REGIMENT OF THE LINE
("FIGHTING 40TH")
SOMERSET REGIMENT
2ND BATTALION LANCASTER REGIMENT
Note: Contemporary newspapers and Hart's Army List 1861 give the name as "Brooke" not "Brooks" as on this memorial.
For other memorials in the cemetery see Topics below