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‘FORGOTTEN CHILDREN’ OF HOWICK Mark Johnson, the Labour candidate for the Botany by-election, feels Botany and Ormiston need to have an identity – page 3
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Vol 2, No 50
COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE
Names added to memorial
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our names have been added to the list of the fallen on the cenotaph on Stockade Hill. Part of the Howick Local Board’s Heritage Plan, the project was launched after local historian Alan La Roche
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approached the board to have more names included on the memorial. First World War memorials were often community-led initiatives and, in the absence of any guidelines to determine whose name should be listed, locals decided to include only the names of men and women who died. This was often gathered by canvassing the local community
rather than official records which either did not have enough information or had been been lost. Mr La Roche started researching for a list of those who served in WWI in early 2014. “Slowly I realised some who were killed were not on the monument. I had to prove they were from Howick or Pakuranga. “At first I found it a very emotional task reading how they
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joined up, trained, fought often with soldiers from other countries who did not speak English, and for some buried in a foreign land without a funeral. “Their death notices in the Auckland newspapers show the heartfelt emotional loss.” Most of the fundraising for the monument on Stockade Hill was done by the women of Howick.
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