Research Service covering New Zealanders
who served in the NZEF during WW1

Level One Service

Provides the details listed below sourced from official publications.

Recipient Details (as at Embarkation)

• Serial Number
• Rank
• Full Name
• Status / Occupation
• Body at Embarkation
• Unit at Embarkation
• Last Address
• Next of Kin

Service Medal Entitlement

Honours and Awards

Foreign Awards

Embarkation Details

• Date of Embarkation from New Zealand
• Name and Number of Troopship
• Place of Disembarkation
• Date of Disembarkation

Wounded Details

• Date of Report
• Current Unit
• Nature of report (wounded, missing, killed in action, etc.)

Casualty Details

• Date of Death
• Theatre
• Nature of Death (Killed in action, died of wounds, died of disease, etc.)
• Photograph (Gallipoli casualties only)

Commission Details (officers)

• Date of Attestation
• Date of promotion(s)
• Nature of promotion(s)
• Date struck off strength

Information Sources

The base information would be provided from the following references.

• New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Embarkation Roll 1914-1918
• New Zealand Expeditionary Force - List of Casualties
• New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Roll of Honour
• Studholme, J. Some Records of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force
• Troopship Magazines
• NZ Weekly News (1915)
• New Zealand Who's Who
• Lord Ranfurly's Roll of Defenders of the Empire (NZ Veterans of Boer War and earlier)

Level Two Service

This service would involve researching other sources to elicit specific details identified by the requestor. Such material may include archival documents held at NZ Government agencies such as Defence Department, National Archives, and museums.