List of New Zealand military personnel

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The following is a list of notable New Zealand people associated with the military, including those who participated in warfare or saw active service in New Zealand.

Musket Wars[]

Hongi Hika - a sketch of an 1820 painting

New Zealand Wars[]

Major Ropata Wahawaha

Boer War[]

World War I[]

Major-General Andrew Russell, centre front, in 1919 with some of the senior officers of the New Zealand Division, including Brigadier-General Herbert Hart (front left) and Brigadier-General Charles Melvill (front right)
  • Leslie Cecil Lloyd Averill - Platoon Commander and first New Zealander to scale the walls of Le Quesnoy[14]
  • Ronald Bannerman - World War I fighter ace
  • Cyril Bassett - first soldier of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to receive the Victoria Cross, awarded for his actions during the Battle of Chunuk Bair at Gallipoli, in August 1915[15]
  • Harold Beamish - fighter ace with No. 3 Squadron Royal Naval Air Service[16]
  • William Thomas Beck - first New Zealand soldier ashore at Gallipoli
  • Charles Mackie Begg - medical officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front[17]
  • Charles Henry Brown - officer who served at Gallipoli and commanded an infantry brigade on the Western Front; killed in action during the Battle of Messines in 1917[18]
  • Donald Forrester Brown - posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the first such award to a soldier of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force serving on the Western Front[19]
  • Keith Caldwell - fighter ace and commander of the Royal Flying Corps' No. 74 Squadron; later a senior officer in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II and the postwar period[20]
  • Thomas Culling - first New Zealand fighter ace of World War I[21]
  • James Lloyd Findlay - soldier and fighter pilot
  • Harry Fulton - senior officer who commanded an infantry brigade on the Western Front; killed in action in 1918[22]
  • Herbert Ernest Hart - senior officer who served at Gallipoli and commanded an infantry brigade on the Western Front; later administrator of Western Samoa[23]
  • Francis Earl Johnston - senior officer who commanded an infantry brigade at Gallipoli and on the Western Front; killed in action in 1917[24]
  • George Napier Johnston - Commander Royal Artillery of the New Zealand Division[24]
  • George Augustus King - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front; killed in action during the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917[25]
  • Norman Joseph Levien - Ordnance Officer Egypt, Gallipoli, France and United Kingdom
  • William George Malone - Commander of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, killed in action at Gallipoli[26]
  • Thomas James McCristell - officer in charge of the Ordnance Corps in New Zealand
  • Charles Melvill - senior officer who commanded an infantry brigade on the Western Front; later Commandant of New Zealand Military Forces, from 1924 to 1925[27]
  • Arthur Plugge - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
  • Andrew Hamilton Russell - Commander of the New Zealand Division[28]
  • William Sinclair-Burgess - New Zealand officer serving with Australian forces
  • James Waddell - New Zealand soldier serving with the French Foreign Legion
  • Bright Williams - last surviving New Zealand Soldier of the First World War
  • Robert Young - senior officer who commanded an infantry brigade on the Western Front; later Commandant of New Zealand Military Forces, from 1925 to 1931

World War II[]

The then Brigadier Howard Karl "Kip" Kippenberger, on the left, with double Victoria Cross recipient Captain Charles Upham

(some served also in World War I)

Post-WWII[]

  • Denis Barnett - Commander, British Forces Cyprus
  • Richard Bolt - bomber pilot with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II; later Chief of the Air Staff from 1974 to 1976 and then Chief of the Defence Staff from 1976 to 1980[59]
  • Sir William Gentry - officer who served with the 2NZEF during World War II; later Chief of General Staff, New Zealand Army, from 1952 to 1955[60]
  • Walter McKinnon - officer who served with the 2NZEF during World War II; later Chief of General Staff, New Zealand Army, from 1965 to 1967[61]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Kawharu, Freda Rankin. "Heke Pokai, Hone Wiremu". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. ^ Ballara, Angela. "Hongi Hika". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  3. ^ Belich, James. "Cameron, Duncan Alexander". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  4. ^ Green, David. "Chute, Trevor". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Obituary: Thomas Bernard Collinson, 1821–1902". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Institution of Civil Engineers. 150 (1902): 461. 1902. doi:10.1680/imotp.1902.18336.
  6. ^ Fitzgerald, Michael. "Gold, Charles Emilius". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  7. ^ Harper & Richardson 2007, pp. 48–55.
  8. ^ Barber, Laurie. "Nixon, Marmaduke George". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  9. ^ Green, David. "Pratt, Thomas Simson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  10. ^ Oliver, Steven. "Wahawaha, Rapata". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  11. ^ Crawford, J.A.B. "Hardham, William James". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  12. ^ McGibbon 2000, p. 229.
  13. ^ O'Shea, Phillip. "Robin, Alfred William". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  14. ^ Rice, Geoffrey W. "Averill, Leslie Cecil Lloyd". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  15. ^ Harper & Richardson 2007, pp. 113–118.
  16. ^ Claasen 2017, pp. 274–276.
  17. ^ Begg, Neil. "Begg, Charles Mackie". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  18. ^ McGibbon 2000, p. 73.
  19. ^ Harper & Richardson 2007, pp. 130–135.
  20. ^ Tonks, Matthew. "Keith Caldwell". New Zealand History. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  21. ^ Claasen 2017, pp. 258–259.
  22. ^ McGibbon 2000, pp. 188–189.
  23. ^ Crawford, J.A.B. "Hart, Herbert Ernest". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  24. ^ a b McGibbon 2000, p. 260.
  25. ^ McIntyre, W. David. "King, George Augustus". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  26. ^ Pugsley, Chris. "Malone, William George". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  27. ^ McGibbon 2000, p. 316.
  28. ^ Pugsley, Chris. "Russell, Andrew Hamilton". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  29. ^ Mitchell 1945, p. 99.
  30. ^ Snelling 2012, pp. 13–19.
  31. ^ McGibbon 2000, p. 51.
  32. ^ McGibbon 2000, pp. 53–54.
  33. ^ Thompson 1956, p. 187.
  34. ^ McGibbon 2000, pp. 93–94.
  35. ^ Phipps, Gareth. "Wilfred Clouston: Biography". NZ History. New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  36. ^ Thompson 1953, p. 211.
  37. ^ "William Henry Cunningham". Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  38. ^ Phipps, Gareth. "Alan Deere Biography". New Zealand History. New Zealand Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  39. ^ Lambert 2011, pp. 54–55.
  40. ^ McGibbon 2000, pp. 149–150.
  41. ^ Lineham, Peter J. "Elliott, Keith 1916–1989". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  42. ^ Thompson 1956, p. 367.
  43. ^ Phipps, Gareth. "Michael Herrick Biography". New Zealand History. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  44. ^ McGibbon 2000, p. 313.
  45. ^ Thompson 1953, p. 220.
  46. ^ McGibbon 2000, pp. 435–436.
  47. ^ Wynn 1981, pp. 332–336.
  48. ^ Thompson 1953, p. 238.
  49. ^ Hanson 2001, p. 427.
  50. ^ Orange, Vincent. "Scott, Desmond James". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  51. ^ Wynn 1981, pp. 353–359.
  52. ^ Lambert 2011, pp. 310–312.
  53. ^ McGibbon, Ian. "Keith Lindsay Stewart". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  54. ^ Hayward, Joel. "Trent, Leonard Henry". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  55. ^ Thompson 1953, p. 197.
  56. ^ McGibbon 2000, pp. 597–598.
  57. ^ Thompson 1953, p. 99.
  58. ^ Thompson 1953, p. 21.
  59. ^ "Sir Richard Bolt Dies in Lower Hutt". Scoop Media. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  60. ^ Crawford, J. A. B. "Gentry, William George". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  61. ^ McGibbon 2000, p. 287.

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