Apr 21, 2003 · Age 28. Son of the late Thomas and Fanny Ann Williams, of Wanganui, New Zealand. Enlisted in the Fiji Islands, 1914. Born at Timaru, New Zealand. WILSON, Rifleman, ARTHUR MATTHEW, R/10191. 4th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps. 8th May 1915. Age 31. Son of Matthew and Ann Wilson, of Fiji Islands. Born at Levuka, Fiji Islands.

Feb 9, 2008 · hello all.I have found out that my ww1 marine great uncle while serving onboard the pegasus may have been involved in the raid on the fiji islands in 1909 .did they get a medal for this action and what did it look like .thanks tom

Mar 29, 2024 · In WW2, there was a Fijian Infantry Regiment -- Wikipedia has '1st Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment: The 1st Battalion was originally raised in response to the request by the US Forces deployed in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War for operations in the Solomon Islands. The Battalion left Fiji in 1943 and saw action in Guadalcanal ...

Nov 26, 2005 · When the fortress was about to fall he flew his aircraft into China until he ran out of fuel. He was eventually captured by the Chinese, escaped, was captured by the Japanese, escaped (being I think the only European in either world war to escape from the Japanese home islands) and took ship for Europe.

Sep 26, 2009 · Measles could be a major issue in populations without immunity. For example in 1875 the King of Fiji returned from a diplomatic trip, infected with measles. The resulting measles epidemic killed 40,000 out of a population of 150,000. In WW1 it was a major problem with serious outbreaks amongst soldiers in the UK, France, the USA and the West ...

Mar 1, 2025 · Joseph Le Peurian b1892 in Jersey, Channel Islands, transferred into the RFC in August 1917 from the Dorsetshire Regiment and before that the Royal Militia of Jersey. No idea why he would have been in the Dorsetshire other than I believe they may have been in Jersey at the time, perhaps when the Militia in Jersey was suspended in early 1917.

May 21, 2023 · Pte 28333 Arthur cox. Labour corp. I am interested as to where he received his terrible injuries and later died. He was born in Tipton 1887, and joined the a.r m. Is that the reserves on 12.12.1915. But was transfered to 48th labor corp and mobilised to S W France between 29.03.1917 until 13.09.1...

Nov 8, 2009 · Hello "Blackhand", There were in fact two articles about the 2 ft gauge narrow gauge railway from Port Stanley to Moody Brook in The Railway Magazine – Falklands Discovery by Raymond Selkirk (p 431 November 1984), and Falkland Explorations by Richard Gardner (pps 120-122 March 1986).

Jan 2, 2004 · received disbursement from Fiji Day Fund . Military Cross 1918. STATHAM, William W H, son of Mr W H Statham of Epsom, has been posted as 2nd Lieutenant, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. He left Fiji in June 1916 as sergeant in charge of the First Fiji Reinforcement.

May 23, 2009 · A young woman named Margaret Alice Scott and her husband Henry William Scott were living at 34 Merton Ave, Brentford, Chiswick, Essex during WW1. Alice, as she was known, had been born on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific in 1880. daughter of an American - Dwight Allen, and a part Maori mother-...