Index	LU=4Sep09	Dawn Chambers

Men on board HM Troopship s.s. Ruahine 15 Aug 1917


29th Reinforcements
Wellington Infantry Regiment		B Company	182 Men 	16 Lost	(9%)
Canterbury Infantry Regiment		C Company	177 Men		32 Lost	(18%)
Otago Infantry Regiment			D Company	165 Men		24 Lost (15%)
NZ Rifle Brigade Reinforcements 	G Company	142 Men		18 Lost (13%)

21st Reinforcements
NZ Pioneer Battalion (Maori)		21st Reinf.	50 Men		09 Lost (18%)

E Company (part), Specialists (part), NZ Medical Corps (part)

Significant Dates: France and Belgium
1917 Nov-Dec	Attacks on Polderhoek Chateau
1918 March	German advance Colincamps-Hebuterne

1918 July	Allied advance through Rossignol Wood, Puisieux, Achiet,
		Grevillers, Bapaume

1918 September	Battle of Havrincourt-Epehy, Battle of Cambrai and the
		Hindenburg Line

1918 October	Battle of Le Cateau, Battle of Selle River
1918 November	Battle of the Sambre, Le Quesnoy

Other known Archives
Diary	1917	John Bell CONDLIFFE: C Company		University of Canterbury Library

Medical Officers
Captain A. T. McCaw, P.M.O.
Captain W. H. D. McKee
Lieut. J. A. Jenkins

Dental Officer
Captain C. E. T. Woods

Naval Officer
Mr T. A. F. Feather (Boatswain), R.N.

Chaplains
Rev. H. Parata
Rev. L. A. Knight

E Company
S.S.M. Frank Lyons
Sergeant Charles Raymond Brown
Corporal Samuel Jason Flewellen
Corporal Patrick Stanislaus Foley
Lance-Corporal Samuel Llewellyn Morton Bird

Privates: William Adams; William Gordon Anstis; George Berry; Reuben Percy Butler; Patrick James Brown;
Ernest Arthur Burkett; William Henry Crampton; Patrick Joseph Dee; Albert John Foster; Avondale Dunbar Gray;
Ernest Howard; James Hooper; John Hoffman; Albert John Hughes; John William Lockett; Wilfrid Griffiths Mangin;
John Thomas Maher; Francis May; Leonard McNeill; Peter McLay; Reginald Allen Ollerenshaw; Frederick Henry Ogier;
Albert Maitland Paterson; John Prendergast; Horace Paynter; Douglas Paterson; Frank Sweeney; George Shaw;
Felix Scullin; Paul St. John; Thomas Sommerville; William Stevenson; Arthur Schofield; Hugh Anderson Thompson;
Spurgeon Thrush; Ernest John Woodward; George Gelletly Wilson; William George Wilton; John Alexander Young.

F Company
2nd Lieut. W. T. S. Edwards, Acting O.C.
Platoon 21
Sergeant Arthur Robert Grierson
Corporal William Gerard Wilson
Corporal David Rowland
Corporal Norman Campbell Napier
Lance-Corporal Philip Weston
Lance-Corporal James William Booker
Lance-Corporal Isaac Trafford Rawson
C.S.M. Andrew Christian Anderson
Q.M.S. John Cowan

Privates: John William Alding; Arthur Lock Braddick; Albert Bunning; James Burtton; Francis Bertram Connor;
Charles Henry Cook; Albert Edward Crouch; Albert Edward Douglas; John Elliott; William Joseph Ennis;
James Henry Evans; Horace Michael Connoll Fitzsimmons; Roland Flyger; Frederick Thomas Foster;
Walter George Freeman; Arthur George Gloyn; John Guerin; Francis Joseph Haftka; Walter Henry Saunders Hight;
Henry Jones; Joseph Vincent Kelly; Walter Henry Kessell; Norman John Lima; Rowland Lobb; James Percival McAnally;
Stanley McDowell; John Millar McKeeman; Angus McKinlay; John Henry McLean; James Patterson McLeod;
Malcolm Manlett; Oliver Rush; Burt Smith; Harry Stock; George William Sutton; Percy Daniel Thompson;
Charles Martin Thorstensen; Walter William Wilsher; Alfred Wright

Platoon 22
2nd Lieut. Claude Oswald Pratt
Sergeant Douglas Leslie McKay
Corporal Rolfe Wilson
Corporal Edwin Gill Finnerty
Corporal George Boston Gregory
Corporal Ronald Ernest Jensen
Lance-Corporal Harold Edward Friedrich
Lance-Corporal Thomas Stanley Hatten
Lance-Corporal Duncan Bright Wilson

Privates: Frank Archer; Walter Victor Atwood; Charles Wilfred Beaufoy; William Landt Birkahn; John Brooking;
Spencer Harold Chapman; George Michael Daulton; William Darcy Davies; Sydney Gordon Doig; Maurice Flynn;
Patrick Foley; Henry Oberise Furlong; Sydney George Gallop; William Harrison Gibson; Melville Leon Gray;
Peter Magee; William Manson; Charles Mayhew; Charles Henry Middleton; Arthur Alfred Mitchell;
David Crooks Mitchell; Frederick Mooney; James Francis Moore; Frederick Mulley; James McKinley; Patrick McCrohan;
George William McNamara-McDonald; Albert Henry Newall; Tasman O'Connell; Leslie James Phippen; David Pugh;
Alexander Robinson; William Ross; Michael Singleton; Albert Smith; Karori Farquhar Spiers; John Taylor;
George Robert Tattersall; Thomas Trinder; Joseph Turnwald; Cyril Arnold Wemyss.

Platoon 23
Sergeant Archie William Diprose
Sergeant David Perry
Corporal Henry John Sutton
Corporal John Haine Fleming Churchouse
Lance-Corporal Wilfred George Pannill
Lance-Corporal Thomas Kinesella
Lance-Corporal Ivor Stuart Croll Dalgairns

Privates: Joseph Samuel Eton Belcher; James Boland; Henry Roland Eaton; Thomas Henry Free; John Furniss;
Alfred Charles Gilder; Arthur Michael Hall; Michael Joseph Hanley; Ernest Holmes; Ernest Norman Hubert Joblin;
Samuel Henry Keatinge; George Inglis Latta; John Little; William Moore; Graham Morton; Samuel McCosh;
samuel McIntosh; Neil Alexander Mackay; Kenneth Robert McKenzie; Henry Alexander Neale; Carlile Herbert Norris;
Richard Ogden; Gustav Olsen; Michael Francis O'Sullivan; Albert Ernest Porter; Archibald Prentice; James Pullar;
Thomas Ryan; John Scanlon; Samuel Scarr; William Frank Silva; Robert Alexander Stewart; Henry Edward Swindley;
Ernest Emmery Thaxter; William Gregory Tobin; William Edward Tyer; Percival Clive White; John Wilson (57300);
Gwynne Yates; Alexander Yeatts

Platoon 24
2nd Lieut. Richard John Bedingfield
Sergeant William Sinclair
Corporal Charles James Moncur
Corporal Stanley Michael Somerfield
Lance-Corporal William Donald Napier
Lance-Corporal William O'Donnell
Lance-Corporal Herbert Fairhall Kent

Privates: Maxwell Kay Benson; Herbert Joseph Bird; Joseph John Bridges; Leslie Knox Couper; John Curtis;
John Dobson; James John Grainger; William Henry Heavan; William Henry Matthews; William Mawson; George Miller;
Lawrence John Moor; Sydney Arthur Morris; Gerald Murtagh; Samuel Arthur McIlroy; Percy Stanley McLean;
William John McHugh; Alfred Grant Naylor; William Neeley; Arthur Clarence Noble; Martin Joseph O'Connor;
William Edward O'Connor; Frederick George Parfitt; William Matthew Park; Thomas Arthur Patterson;
Frederick Thomas Pattison; John Joseph Peacock; Alfred Edward Pearman; Marten Mant Perry; Dudley Crawford Perrin;
Reginald Pickford; Charles Philip Peters; Herbert Arthur Robertson; George Fred. Rusher; Herbert Sefton;
John James Walter Mason Smith; Robert George Staveley; John Stewart; Morris Alexander Walker; Earl Westhead;
Walter Thomas Williams.

Specialist Company
Sergeant James Patrick McDavitt
Corporal Thomas Frederick Basire
Lance-Corporal Philip Sydney Newell Connell

Privates: Stanley Beswick; Richard Fenning Cameron; James Golthard; Thomas Gates; George Shepherd Hawkins;
John Ramsay Morton; Albert Everness Newman; James Watson

Pay and Postal Corps
S. Sergeant James Chalwyn Bradburn
S. Sergeant Charles Elias Anderson
S. Sergeant John Breen

NZ Medical Corps
Captain A. T. McCaw, O.C.
Captain W. H. D. McKee
Lieut. J. A. Jenkins
Corporal J. H. Hardie
Corporal K. McK. Black
Corporal D. L. Teed

Privates: A. C. Bridges; F. A. R. Brown; E. R. Clark; F. W. Cooper; T. A. Felton; C. H. Franklin;
G. C. Hamel; A. T. Hill; H. T. Jaffrey; T. Johnson; H. L. Judd; G. A. Langford; J. P. McCowan; F. P. Moore;
A. S. Neale; J. E. Ray; C. W. Robinson; J. G. Ross; E. N. Rowe; D. Simpson; A. J. W. Sims; F. W. Smith;
H. V. Squire; W. J. Stacey.

NZ Dental Corps
Captain C. E. T. Woods, O.C.
Sergeant Sydney Francis Craze

Naval Detachment
Boatswain F. A. Feather, R.N., O.C.
C.P.O. Samuel Partridge
Chief Shipwright W. B. Belt
C.R.A. R. Sheppard
Chief Steward R. Kerr
Leading Seaman J. Stevens
Sail Mate A. Coaker
A.B. H. Roberts
A.B. M. Halcrow
Armourer Crew F. Bennett
Stoker J. Adams
Stoker G. Thompson
Leading Ck. Mate W. Underdown