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Topic: 40th Regiment, Waitara (1915)

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Military Cemetery, McLean Street, Waitara (Opposite War Memorial Hall)

Waitara 40^th 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 27^TH 1860

AND ALSO THOSE

WHO FELL AT THE ATTACK ON KAIRAU

ON THE 29^TH DECEMBER 1860

Left Side

                                                                                            LIEU^T BROOKS [sic]

                                                  SERG^T O'CALLAGHAN                    CORP^L SAMUEL M^CBURNEY

                                                  CORP. DAVID VAHEY                            "     EDWARD RYAN

                                                               GUNNER W. WEIR (ROYAL ARTILLERY)

                                                                                              PRIVATES

                                                PATRICK BRODERICK                     THOMAS DUMPHEY

                                                W^M HICKEY                                          J. DOUGLAS

                                                WALTER SCOTT                                  PATRICK FAGAN

                                                JOHN DOWNES                                  SAMUEL ALROY

                                                W.F. PERRY                                         JAMES GORE

                                                JOHN WEBBER                                  JOHN FILLINGHAM

                                                W^M HAYES                                            H. E. MARTYN

                                                T BRYNE                                                J. ALLEN

                                                ARCHIBALD M^CCANN                     PETER M^CCABE

                                                W^M CLIFF                                              EDW. G. HARRIS

                                                T. GILL                                                    GEO MARSDEN

                                               W^M MARKHAM                                    FRANCIS ROBINSON

                                               J. MACGUIRE

Rear

LEST WE FORGET

KILLED AT KAIRAU 29^TH DECEMBER 1860

A BROOME; A.B. OF  H.M.S. PELORUS

PRIVATE M LEHANE, 40^TH REGT

J. CHINNERY

Short  NP

Right Side

40^TH REGIMENT OF THE LINE

("FIGHTING 40^TH")

SOMERSET REGIMENT

2^ND 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