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WW1 Remuera Families With More Than One Son Killed in WW1

There were several Remuera families with more than one son killed in WW1.

WW1 Sister Barbara Sibyl Greig

Barbara Sibyl Greig, sister of Elsie Stewart Greig (1886-1966) and Roysie Alma Greig (1891–1969).

WW1 Sister Elsie Stewart Greig RRC

Elsie was born on 10 April 1886 to Barbara Mary Stewart and James Dickson Greig.

Trinity Methodist Theological College transformation to Church of Scientology

Remuera Heritage and Parnell Heritage had a joint visit to 136 Grafton Road to learn about the history, heritage restoration and recent work done to the building.

Dunholme

Dunholme was built in the 1870s by Auckland businessman Samuel Morrin on the corner of Remuera Road and what is now Ridings Road.

History of the Remuera Shops 1911 to 2016

Here you can find out about the history of some of the Remuera shops as a StoryMap.

Ellerslie Racecourse Makeover

Ellerslie racecourse has demolished the old totalisator building, retaining only the "totaliser machine" and dividends board inside.

Dr Grace de Courcy LRCP LRCS Edinburgh, MD (with Distinction) Brussels

Grace de Courcy of Remuera was amongst the first New Zealand women to qualify as a doctor.

Skelton’s Buildings

Skelton's Building 339-345 Remuera Rd was built in 1928 for Robert Skelton.

WW1 Frederick Charles Spratt

Frederick Charles Spratt was part of the 2nd New Zealand Cyclists Corps.

WW1 Edward Newton Matthews 10081

Edward Newton Matthews was born 6 March 1896 in Auckland, the eldest son of Ellen and Newton Matthews.

Burial Service for Jack Walker at Leper Belgium

A burial service has been held for Captain Henry John Innes Walker, Royal Warwickshire Regiment and six ...

4 Victoria Avenue

Sue Cooper and Iain Valentine of the Remuera Residents Association presented to the Orakei Local Board on 19 April 2018 about the need for a community centre in Remuera.

The Walsh Brothers – Leo and Vivian

Leo and Vivian Walsh lived in Remuera in Orakei Road with their father Austin and sisters, Veronica and Doreen.

Jean Batten Aviator CBE OSC Chev LH

Jean Batten became New Zealand's most famous aviator.

411-413 Remuera Road Shops

411-413 Remuera Road was first the site of the offices of the Remuera Road Board from 1902 until it merged with Auckland City Council in 1915.

385 Remuera Road

This wooden-façade shop was built about 1909 and is one of the oldest commercial buildings still standing in Remuera.

Early buildings of King’s College Remuera

King’s College was founded in The Tower, the former home of James McCosh Clark in 1896, at 258 Remuera Rd...

Is the Remuera Citizens Advice Bureau CAB Moving from 4 Victoria Avenue? — Have Your Say!

22nd March 2018 Remuera Library

Cole’s Buildings

George Cole, a local real estate and land agent, owned all the buildings from 142 to 144, now 382 to 396 Remuera Road.

WW1 Gordon Harrison Larner 2/2178

Gordon Harrison Larner was born on 25 November 1894 to Victor John and Margaret Larner.

WW1 Major George Henry Holland M.C. (Service Number 12/373)

George Holland was born on 12 July 1885 in Onewhero, South Auckland, the older son of John and Emily Holland.

WW1 Evan Gibb Hudson (Service Number 61946)

Evan Gibb Hudson was born in 18 December 1895, the youngest son of Ellen (nee Winks) and Harold Willey Hudson

WW1 Thomas Patrick Hoare (Service Number 23/1673)

Thomas Hoare was born 22 July 1888, the son of Richard Joseph and Margaret Hoare.

WW1 William Henning (Service number 11376)

William Henning was born in Auckland 23 December 1884 to James and Emily Henning.

WW1 Ethel Marion Hirst (Gould)

Ethel Marion Hirst was born on 2nd February 1895.

WW1 Ben Hirst (Service Number 2/1793)

Ben Hirst was born on 16 April 1893 to Marion Violet Hirst and Frank Martin Hirst.

WW1 William Edmond Hartland (Service number 12/763)

William Edmond Hartland (Service number 12/763) was born on 6 July 1892.

WW1 Angelo William Thomas Gill 30795

Angelo William Thomas Gill was born on 18 December 1896 in Canberra, son of T R W and Edith Gill.

WW1 Arthur Ernest (Everard) Bourne 565

Arthur Ernest (Everard) Bourne (Service number 565) was born in Auckland and was the youngest son of Charles Frederick and Margaret Bourne.

WW1 Douglas Hepburn Gamble 13/2191

Douglas Hepburn Gamble (Service number 13/2191) was born 21 February 1893 in Remuera, Auckland to Rachel Louise Gamble and William Nelson Gamble.

WW1 Thomas Ernest 21235

Thomas Ernest (Service number 21235) was born on 13 August 1895, the youngest son of Thomas and Anne Ernest.

WW1 Andrew Royden Erickson 12160

Andrew Royden Erickson (Service number 12160) was born 20 October 1895 in Auckland.

The Ladies College of Remuera

The Ladies College of Remuera By Rebecca Crossan.

A New Zealand Chinese Family in Remuera

A New Zealand Chinese family in Remuera by Phillipa Wong, age 13 years.

St Mark’s Church

Churches have always been important places for Christian communities, providing not only religious worship but community centres.

A Family in Remuera

A Family in Remuera by Julie M Hill and Louise Alana Rooney.

How Auckland has changed over the last 100 years

How Auckland has changed over the last 100 years by Guyon Lang, age 13.

Rona Von Zalinski Remembers Meadowbank

I loved Meadowbank when I moved here in 1940 with my young Air Force husband and our two small daughters and I have loved it ever since.

A Day in the Life of a Remuera Resident — Monsignor Brian Arahill

A day in the life of a Remuera resident, by Kimberley Tse, age 8 years.

Roselle — 82 Shore Road, Remuera

“ROSELLE” 82 Shore Road, Remuera, by Elizabeth Jean Chalmers.

Auckland Essay

Auckland Essay, by Guysen Lang, age 11.

Memories of Living in Maungarei Road

Memories of living in Maungareri Road by Eileen Shapley (nee Hollett).

Remuera Railway Station Preservation Trust

The Remuera Railway Station Preservation Trust was set up in 1994 to preserve the railway station which had sunk into a state of neglect and disrepair.

T.J. Mcnamara on the Great War and Its Effect on the Spiritual in Art

T.J. McNamara gave a moving talk on the Great War and its effect on the spiritual in art, on 1st November 2017.

The Bassett Road Shops in the 1930s

Remuera Rotary Historical Essay Competition - The Bassett Road shops in the 1930s, by Angela Caughey of Remuera.

WW1 Paul Graham Clark (46224)

Paul Graham Clark (Service number 46224) was born on 9 February 1897, in Leicester, Leicestershire, England.

The Planning and Building of St Aidan’s Church

Remuera Rotary Historical Essay Competition Written by Angela Caughey, 2004.

Seen at the Tudor: A History of the Tudor Theatre

Winner of the Remuera Rotary Historical Essay Competition — written by Jeanette de Heer, 2004.

WW1 Edward Arthur Ormond Butler

Edward Arthur Ormond Butler (Service number 14385) was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 15 June 1887.

WW1 Frederick Thomas Arthur Bowell (Service number 3/1239)

Frederick Bowell was born on 7 September 1888 and was the son of Arthur Henry and Jean Abernathy Bowell.

WW1 Remuera at Passchendaele 12 October 1917

Remuera men who died on October 12th 1917 at Passchendaele.

WW1 Remuera Roll of Honour — Third Battle of Ypres for Passchendaele 4 October 1917

Four Remuera men were killed on this day 4th October 1917 at the Third Battle of Ypres at Gravenstafel Spur off the Passchedaele Ridge in Belgium.

Alderton House

The Alderton family moved about 1905 from Northland to 17 Remuera Road (now 101 Remuera Road).

WW1 Gladys Sandford ( Henning, nee Coates) MBE (87100)

Gladys Sandford was the first woman in New Zealand to work as a car sales representative and also to attain her pilot's licence.

WW1 Flight-Lieutenant Frank Hamilton Bullock-Webster

Frank Hamilton Bullock-Webster was born 24 September 1885 at The Lake House, Hamilton, the eldest son of Harold and Maud Bullock-Webster.

WW1 Flight-Lieutenant & Captain James Dalton Dinneen 66239

James (Jimmy) Dinneen was born 16 July 1883, the fourth of six children of Michael Dalton and Mary Victoria Dinneen (nee Given).

WW1 Leslie Upton Clifford Crowhurst (60081)

Leslie Upton Clifford Crowhurst was born on 29 June 1896, to Samuel George Crowhurst and Catherine Elizabeth Crowhurst (Breen).

WW1 Sapper John William Wright (4/1598) N Z Tunnelling Company

John William Wright was the second son of James and Hannah Wright.

WW1 Francis (Frank) Ernest Crowhurst (60080)

Francis Ernest Crowhurst was born on 25 November 1886 to Samuel George Crowhurst and Catherine Elizabeth Crowhurst (Breen).

WW1 Arthur Frederick Livingstone Crowhurst (24/99)

Arthur Crowhurst was born on 20 May 1894, to Samuel George and Catherine Crowhurst, 24 Eden Street in Newmarket, Auckland.

WW1 Edgar Harvey (Hervey) Robertson (28801)

Edgar Harvey (Hervey) Robertson was born 20 August 1896 in Lyttleton, Christchurch, New Zealand to John and Evelyn E Robertson.

WW1 Samuel Alfred Crowhurst (Service number 12/1933)

Samuel Alfred Crowhurst was born on 14 July 1890 in Onehunga, and was the third son of Samuel George Crowhurst and Catherine Elizabeth Crowhurst (Breen).

WW1 Victor Roy Crowhurst (WW112/1934 & WWII 576999)

Victor Roy Crowhurst was born on 22 July 1893, to Samuel George Crowhurst and Catherine Elizabeth Crowhurst (Breen).

WW1 Flight-Lieutenant William Archibald Buchanan

William (known as Billy) was born in Auckland 22 June1894, son of Archibald Buchanan, and Edith Mary Buchanan.

Herb Farrant on the Battle of Passchendaele

Talk about the run up to the Battle for Passchendaele.

WW1 Thomas Douglas Hutcheon

Thomas Douglas Hutcheon (Service number 4/329) was the only son born to Mary Douglas Hutcheon and William Hutcheon.

WW1 Randolph Edward Oswald and Eric Albert Coates 12/59 & 11/643

Randolph Edward Oswald Coates was born in Adelaide on 19 May 1888, the elder son of Oswald and Valerie Albine Coates.

WW1 Horace Howard Wattam

Horace was the son of Robert and Florence Wattam, of Orarake Avenue, Remuera.

WW1 Roland (Rowland) Alfred Ward (Service number 24086)

Rowland Alfred Ward (Service number 24086) of 18 Arney Crescent, Remuera, was born 9 April 1896.

WW1 William Henry Williams

William Henry Williams (Service number 42441) was born 31 December 1890.

WW1 John Alfred Shirtcliffe

Lance-Corporal John Alfred Shirtcliffe, was the only son of Mr J and Mrs Elizabeth Shirtcliffe.

WW1 Captain Oliver Steele

Oliver Steele was born 7 April 1882 in Wairoa, Hawke's Bay where his family farmed at Owhio and Pipanui.

WW1 Harold Dixon Buddle

Harold Dixon Buddle was born 10 August 1884, the younger son and third child of five children of the Thomas and Emma Buddle of 26 Victoria Avenue, Remuera, Auckland.

WW1 Joseph Edward Wood

Joseph Edward Wood (Service number 38787) was born in Auckland on 14 August 1896 to Thomas Wood and Louisa Ann Wood.

WW1 Kenneth Ivan Munce

Kenneth Ivan Munce was born on 29 April 1884 to Ruth and John McKenny Munce of 162 Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland.

WW1 Flight-Lieutenant George Edmond Vernon Aimer RFC

Lieutenant George Vernon Aimer was the eldest son of Edmond Baxter Aimer and Annie Elizabeth Aimer.

WW1 Flight Lieutenant Trevor Dudley Hall Alderton

Trevor Alderton was born on 5 January 1894 in Whangarei, Northland, the son of Ida and George Edwin Alderton, the founder of modern Kerikeri.

Thomas King’s Royal Bakery

The bakery oven in Remuera, believed to date back to the turn of last century, before it was knocked down.

WW1 Irving Brothers — Augustus and John

Edward Augustus (1867-1918) and Jane (nee Ross) (1869-1958) Irving, were married in 1888, and lived at 260 Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland.

WW1 David Keith Duthie – Ypres

Born 26 September 1893, David Keith Duthie, known as Keith, was one of four sons and two daughters.

WW1 Hugh Alexander Forrest

Hugh Alexander Forrest was the eldest son of Jessie and William Forrest, who was Postmaster at Devonport Auckland.

WW1 Private Erni Bond 44680

Private Erni Bond was the youngest of five children of the late Mr Erni Bond (1852- 20 December 1914) and of Mrs Alice Bond (nee Freeman, (1858 – 1941)) of 51 Remuera Road, Remuera.