Genies' Jottings
Defence Force Announcements
This magazine is recorded on microfilm and can be accessed at the Auckland City Library.
Some persons Killed in Action also found with Death notices.
1849
Military Killed and Wounded - attack on the Sikhs at Moong
1857
Officiers of the Auckland Battalion Naval and Military Scrip Act 1856 from 1 – 31 October 1857
1858
Farewell Banquet to the 58th Regiment - 13th November 1858
1860
Appointments to First, Second and Third Battalion of the Auckland Regiment of New Zealand Militia Our Casualties at Waitara - 14th July 1860 Hua Blockhouse Memorial - 25th August 1860
1864
Killed and wounded from Tauranga, NZ, 3rd May, 1864
1914
Auckland Section of the NZEF: Officers attached to the Volunteer Camp at Epsom To Leave NZ with the Expeditionary Force: Infantry Officers at the Palmerston North Camp Prisoners of War from Samoa to Somes Island Second Reinforcement - List of Officers - Thursday 17th December 1914
1915
Samoan Garrison Sick List - January, 1915 Australian Expeditionary Force - 7.01.1915 New Zealand Force - Contingent from England - 7.01.1915 Relief Troops for Samoa - men to train at Trentham - 7.01.1915 Troops for Samoa - 14.01.1915 Waikato detachment - cheered on departure - 14.01.1915 Section leaves waihi - men for active service - 14.01.1915 Otago contingent - enthusiastic send off - 14.01.1915 Arrival in egypt - unexpected by men - 14.01.1915 Soldiers from egypt - arrival of the Athenic, 54 men returned - 13 invalided home - 28.01.1915 Troops in SAMOA - Health generally good - 04.02.1915 Field Artillery Reinforcements - 04.02.1915 Field Engineer Reinforcements - 04.02.1915 Act of Heroism - son of Justice Chapman - 04.02.1915 The Reinforcements - Mounted Rifles Draft - The Army Service Corps - 11.02.1915 Army Service Corps - 11.02.1915 Reinforcements Draft - Third Infantry Regiment - 11.02.1915 Wellington military police 5th Reinforcement Draft - Engineers - 18.02.1915 Reinforcements Draft - MORE MEN FOR TRENTHAM - 18.02.1915 Appointment of Officers, NZEF, Egypt - 18.02.1915] More Volunteers Enlist - 25 Feb 1915 Samoan Garrison - 25 Feb 1915 NZEF Reinforcements - 18th March 1915 ? Letters from Home - 4th March, 1915 Militiary Police for Soama - 4th March, 1915 Sixth Reinforcements - April, 1915 Non-Commissioned Officers of the Auckland Mounted Regt - 8th April, 1915 Auckland Infantry - 15th April, 1915 Sixth Reinforcements - April, 1915 11th, North Auckland, Squadron, Mounted Rifles - 22nd April, 1915 15th, North Auckland, Squadron, Mounted Rifles - 22nd April, 1915 Reinforcements - 22nd April, 1915 Reinforcement Draft, Ambulance Section - 22nd April, 1915 Reinforcements - 29th April, 1915 Selected as non-commissioned officers for the officers for the extra reinforcement draft of the NZEF - 29th April, 1915 Reinforcements SPECIAL INFANTRY DRAFT- 29th April, 1915 More Reinforcements - 29th April, 1915 Names from the Samoan Garrison - 29th April, 1915 Selected from No.1 Group, Auckland, for the Army Service Corps - 22nd May, 1915 Recruits - Special Infantry Brigaide, Infantrymen and Posting of Officers - 27th May, 1915
Every care possible has been taken with these records but, as usual, remember to check original sources of **everything** for yourself.
Transcribed: January, 2001 by Jackie Walles, New Zealand
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