Lahana Military Cemetery is situated 56 km north-east of Salonika (Thessaloniki). It contains 279 British and Commonwealth burials from the Salonika campaign, including Westport-born journalist John Egan, who died of wounds on 8 December 1916 while serving with the Cameron Highlanders in the Struma Valley. He was one of a number of New Zealanders who served in the British imperial forces at Salonika.
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The Salonika campaign
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31 May 1916
HMS New Zealand fights in the Battle of Jutland
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11 April 1916
Arrival of the NZ Division in France
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21 August 1915
New Zealand mounteds attack Hill 60
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16 October 1914
Main Body of NZEF sails to war
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5 August 1914
New Zealand enters the First World War
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28 June 1914
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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8 February 1915
Ambush in Turkey leads to death of New Zealand seaman
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24 September 1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident
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25 August 1916
First New Zealand soldier executed
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9 May 1915
Kiwi Wimbledon champ killed in battle
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2 April 1915
Anzac soldiers riot in Cairo's Wazzir brothel district
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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7 June 1917
The Battle of Messines
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26 June 1918
Wimmera sunk by German mine
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8 August 1915
Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
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29 August 1914
NZ force captures German Samoa
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7 October 1917
German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in NZ
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2 June 1917
NZ steamer captured by the Wolf
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15 December 1915
The evacuation of Gallipoli begins
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