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St Andrew's Church, Stratford roll of honour

Roll of Honour for those associated with St Andrews Church, Stratford, c1918.

Names on the roll:

Corporal J F Anderson; Private Irving Blackstock; Private R Dudley Cameron; Bombardier E D Evans; Surgeon Captain A O Evans; Private [Tom?] J Gorton; Private William Jamieson; Trooper John Johnston; Private Harry Kilpatrick; Sergeant-Major C W Milner; Private John Petrie; Private Robert Reid; Gunner Stanley J Robinson; Corporal Robert A Sangster; Corporal-Farrier W Tucker; Captain Mowray Urquhart; Lieutenant Robert Wood; Private Harold Lister and Private Stanley Metcalfe of 3rd Reinforcements; Rifleman W R Thompson of 4th Reinforcements; Private David M Harvey of 6th Reinforcements; Rifleman Wallace G Cate and Rifleman A Douglas Corkill of 7th Reinforcements; Driver V J Burnett and Trooper James R Linn and Driver E A Walsh of 8th Reinforcements; Lieutenant F H Anderson and Corporal Leslie R Curtis and Driver L C Thompson of 9th Reinforcements; Trooper Frank E Burkett and Private H G Reeves and Private James G Sangster and Private Jack Sherriff of 10th Reinforcements; Lance Corporal Robert Guppy of 11th Reinforcements; Sergeant G E Anderson and Sergeant A R Madill and Private Evan Jones of 12th Reinforcements; Sapper Geoffrey T Lawrence and Sapper James Reid of 14th Reinforcements; Private E Brocklebank of 16th Reinforcements; Corporal Walter Blackstock of 17th Reinforcements; Private William Sherriff of 18th Reinforcements; Private George B Crossan of 22nd Reinforcements; Private J B Crossan of 24th Reinforcements; Corporal E H Robinson of 36 Battalion A.J.F., Lieutenant Archibald Warner of African Field Engineers.

Find out more about the people listed above on Auckland Museum's Cenotaph database

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Stratford war memorial gates

Stratford's Victoria Park war memorial, at the entrance to the rugby grounds, Corner Fenton and Orlando Streets.

The gates bear crossed rifles, wreathes and lighted lamps. There is also a round decorative iron plaque in the centre of each large gate - "France" (left) and "Gallipoli" (right) and, on the back, "Samoa" and "Palestine".

Inscription:

Left pillar:

These gates were erected by the people in grateful and loving memory of the soldiers from Stratford and surrounding districts who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War 1914-1918

Small bronze plaque below:

Unveiled by General Sir Andrew Russell CMG KGMC
Anzac Day
April 25th 1926

Right pillar:

These laid the world away poured out the sweet red wine of youth gave up the years to be of work and joy and that unhoped serene that men call age and those who would have been their sons. They gave their immortality.

Malone Memorial, Stratford

This is the memorial arch to Lieutenant Colonel William George Malone at Stratford, Taranaki. Malone, a Stratford farmer and lawyer, was the commander of the Wellington Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli. He died on the slopes of Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915.

The lone pine tree, located near the Malone Memorial Gates, grew from a seedling brought back from Gallipoli.

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Memorial images: Jamie Mackay, 2012; Jock Phillips and Chris Maclean, c1986. Tree image and information: Graham Hucker, 2006

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Stratford war memorial cross

Cross of Sacrifice on Miranda Street, Stratford.

Graham Huckern

Site	Style	Ornamentation	Unveiling Date	No of Dead
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Stratford memorial hall

Stratford Memorial Hall Roll of Honour with flowers. The hall is in the Stratford Borough Council building.

Graham Hucker

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	hall		1920	129 / 55

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Meeting the Queen at Stratford station, 1954

Queen Elizabeth II meeting the Stratford stationmaster, Jack Scott, on 8 January 1954.

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Gabrielle Dean, grandaughter of John (Jack) Coats Scott.

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School patriotic display

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Patriotic displays were popular during the early twentieth century. The themes of imperialism and militarism are strongly represented in this tableau posed by students at Stratford School. The boys of the junior cadets form a defensive line to protect Britannia and the girls from an imagined enemy. Schools reinforced the commonly held view that education should teach strength and virtue through discipline, obedience, self-sacrifice, patriotism and the importance of fulfilling one’s duty as a citizen of the British Empire.

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The Malone gates in Stratford

Stone war-memorial gates in Stratford commemorate Lieutenant Colonel William George Malone, a local farmer and lawyer who commanded the Wellington Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli during the First World War. Although the Gallipoli campaign was ultimately a failure, Malone's troops achieved some notable successes. However, Malone was killed (possibly by friendly fire) shortly after his men seized the heights of Chunuk Bair.

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Intro: A lone bugle plays an excerpt from the The Last Post

Narrator: Of the thousands of war memorials throughout New Zealand, few are dedicated to individuals. An impressive exception can be found a short distance from Stratford’s main street, at the Fenton Street entrance to King Edward Park. Here stands an elegant stone gateway to the memory of Lieutenant-Colonel William George Malone, Commander of the Wellington Infantry Regiment [sic] at Gallipoli. The memorial was erected by his men soon after the end of the First World War.

When the Great War broke out in 1914, it was expected that New Zealand soldiers would fight on Europe’s Western Front. However, they were sent to Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula in the hope that they would capture it and clear the way for British ships to attack Istanbul.

Though born in England, Malone was described as a ‘typical rugged New Zealand pioneer’. He hacked a farm out of the bush at Stratford and was also a successful land agent and lawyer. An ardent support of the British Empire, Malone was 56 years old when he arrived at Gallipoli. In May 1915, at Cape Helles at the southern tip of the peninsula, Malone and his soldiers overran the Turkish trenches. His diary records his pride in his men:

Malone (actor): My Battalion advanced 1200 yards under shell, machine gun and rifle fire, crossed several trenches which must have been most tempting to stop in, kept their intervals and never fired a shot until they were within 200 to 400 yards of the Turkish trenches. They lost heavily but advanced as though they were on a Parade Ground. It was splendid.

Narrator: Despite the bravery shown by the New Zealand troops, the Gallipoli campaign was a failure. Malone believed this was largely the result of inept British command and a lack of organisation and equipment.

Malone (actor): The war is a ‘JOKE WAR’. Our howitzers are short of ammunition, our eighteen-pounders don’t seem to be able to get in to action, and the naval guns can’t talk soldier gunnery. If it were not so serious, the penalty, one could roar with laughter at the preach and no practice. The Briton is a muddler all right.

Narrator: On August 8, 1915, Malone and his men, facing fire on three sides from the Turks, who were led by a brilliant young soldier called Kemal Attaturk, gained the hilltop of Chunuk Bair – the highest point on the Gallipoli Peninsula. From here the men could see the Dardenelles and the route to Istanbul. That evening, during a lull in the fighting, Malone stood up briefly to survey the terrain, only to be killed by Allied artillery fire. Soon afterwards his regiment was replaced by British troops, who failed to hold the hilltop.

Though he commanded his men brilliantly, the British commanders held Malone responsible for the failure at Chunuk Bair. Perhaps the reason for their hostility was because he regularly refused their demands to send his men to certain death for little gain.

Two of Malone’s sons were wounded at Gallipoli. He dearly loved his family, as his last letter to his wife Ida, shows.

Malone (actor): My sweetheart, I am prepared for death and hope that God will have forgiven me all my sins. My desire for life – so that I may see and be with you again – could not be greater but I have only done what every man was bound to do in our country’s need. Your loving husband, William G Malone.

Manatū Taonga - Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2011. Part of the Roadside Stories series

Archival audio sourced from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives
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Film: the Queen visits Palmerston North and Stratford, 1954

Film clip: visiting Palmerston North and Feilding

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The Royal train arrives in Palmerston North to great cheers. We then see the train passing Mt Taranaki (Egmont). In Stratford, the Royals walk among the crowd.

Commentary:

'Out across the Manawatu plains and into the square of Palmerston North. Where do they come from all these people, with only two million in the whole country? Yet this scene is typical of the Queen's reception in more than fifty towns. Mount Egmont, rising 8,000 feet, but not high enough to overawe the children of Stratford. Ten thousand have gathered in this dairy farming township, and here the Queen finds herself truly among her people for Stratford is one of the few places on the royal tour where Her Majesty proceeds on foot, and the Duke too!'

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The Royal Tour of New Zealand, 1953–54 (National Film Unit)

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