Closer In
Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004. Soldiers moving through ruins on the Cassino battlefront, Italy – Photograph taken by George Kaye. New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency. Ref: DA-05507-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23197557
“Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.”
The cemeteries to be found in the Whangarei District Council Cemetery database include the following:
Maunu Forest Lawn, Kamo (Ketenikau), Onerahi, Kioreroa and Ngunguru (Cape Horn).
I would encourage anyone researching any person listed on the Roll Database who they know to be resting in any of these cemeteries and who they would like to have entered on the Cemetery Database to contact the Cemetery Manager, Whangarei District Council, Private Bag 9023, Whangarei. Contact details are :
Phone: (09) 430-4207
Email: mailroom@wdc.govt.nz
Some partial records are accessible in regards to the Hukerenui, Kaurihohore, Marua and Waipu cemeteries.
Kaye, George Frederick, 1914-2004. Army tank crossing the Sangro River, Italy. New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency. Ref: DA-04625. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22728426
“Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.”
I know personally of some service personnel buried at Kaurihohore who do not show up on the cemetery database.
I have been told that it is unlikely that any unrecorded service personnel resting in this last group of cemeteries will be added to the database unless a specific request is received from a relative to do this. Unfortunately council just does not have the resources to undertake this task. As with the paragraph above, the Cemetery Manager should be contacted should you wish to make such a request.
Information is available in regards these cemeteries on the periphery of Whangarei and contact details are available and constantly updated on the Whangarei Council website.
For details of some of the other small cemeteries, fairly close to Whangarei, refer to the Find a Grave and Billiongraves submenu.