Thanks to everyone who replied to my query about copying military files at Archives. I have managed to download some of them. Thanks Michael

Hi Adele & All: Re C. Lumley, died 1918 Featherston, she is on the Burial Locator as Corale Lumley, nurse (indexed by Christine Clement). Date of Death from RG website is 25 November 191, aged 26y. She is mentioned in the Evening Post of 25 November 1918 under "Soldiers Deaths" in the influenza epidemic page 2 as: "Miss Corale Lumley, V.A.D. died there (Featherston Military Camp) from broncho-pneumonia on the 25th November 1918. Next-of-kin Mrs Baker, Napier." http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19181126.2.13&srpos=23&e=20-11-1918-30-12-1918--10--21----0Lumley-- Yours, John Wilson > Wonder if there is a Joe Blogg these days.. > .......... > I have never been able to find out anything on the C. Lumley. Nurse > buried at Featherston... was helping Sherayl Kendall on it... she did > the book on RNZNC. tried NZ and UK.. nothing comes up.. > Wont give up... keep digging... > > Adele Pentony-Graham >

Are descendants of the following people researching them or their families, or does anyone know of research regarding them? Using Papers Past as my main source I've been writing various articles regarding the history of the Sydenham Cricket Club in Christchurch and its predecessor clubs up to about 1920, and for now I'm looking for information about cricketers from the club who enlisted in World War One. There were 37 altogether. I have already found information at Papers Past, Archway (some digitised military records of soldiers), online cricket archives such as Cricinfo, Cenotaph, Christchurch cemeteries online database, the online BDM's, the 1995 centenary history of the S.C.C., via Google and so forth, but am hoping to hear from researchers of the soldiers who might be able to tell me some more personal stories about them worth putting in my article about the club and the war. I have yet to delve into more genealogical research about these people via the usual sources but I hesitate to do do in depth because that’s not my main focus which is the war and its effect on the Sydenham club and cricket in Christchurch generally, especially in relation to the Canterbury Cricket Association’s old district scheme which officially ran from 1905 to 1920 but was relaxed in 1915 due to so many members of clubs heading to war. As given in the annual report presented at the 1919 AGM of the Sydenham Cricket Club, and with full names given in brackets (my additions, hopefully correct ones), the members of the Sydenham Cricket Club who went to war were as follows: Killed in action: E. FRASER (Ernest Alfred FRASER - "Ernie") B. HICKENBOTHAM (Bruce Glover HICKENBOTTOM - spelling varies) D. NICOLSON (David NICOLSON) G. C. L. WILSON (George Charles Lee WILSON) B. HARRY (Benjamin HARRY) A. HAYES (Arnold Edward HAYES) Died of disease: A. J. (Jum) BLYTH (Andrew Jackson BLYTH) F. O'MALLEY (Patrick Francis O'MALLEY - "Frank") Wounded: Lft-Col R. W. ANDERSON ( Dr Richard Walker ANDERSON)) Ivan ALLARDYCE (Ivan Douglas ALLARDYCE) P. G. WILTSHIRE (Percy George WILTSHIRE) C. J. MATHER (Charles Joseph MATHER) H. DAVIES (Harry DAVIES - was he Edward Henry DAVIES ?) O. HAYES (Harold Onslow Coventry HAYES ?) R. MATTHEWS (Reuben Charles MATTHEWS) H. LINDSAY (?????????????) J. PATRICK (James Stewart PATRICK) G. PATRICK (Gordon Marlborough PATRICK) H. S. STEPHENS (Herbert Stanley STEPHENS E. SKELTON (Ernest SKELTON) A. SHARP (Allen Norton SHARP ?) E. S. WATT (??????????) V. WATT (Vernon Ashley WATTS) Others: J. H. BENNETT (Joseph Henry BENNETT) H. COMPTON (Herbert Melville CROMPTON) E. FITZSIMMINS (Ernest Roy FITZIMMONS) G. FAIRBURN (was he George FAIRBAIRN?) W. GUINEY (William Patterson GUINEY) W. HAYES (William Hugh James HAYES - "Chattel" HAYES) W. GRAHAM (??????????????) F. KING (Frank Reginald KING) D. MCBETH (Daniel Jason MCBEATH) M. O'MALLEY (Michael O'MALLEY) W. SKELTON (William SKELTON) W. TEAGUE (was he William Montague TEAGUE?) B. WHITE (????????????????) The September 1915 annual report adds the following player to our list of Sydenham members enlisted: O. HODGSON (????????????) - did he actually go to war in 1915? He may have been Otho John HODGSON but, as he was called up in the Otago infantry some months later in 1916 as part of the 19th Reinforcements, I am not sure. I think he is indexed in the Chch Cemeteries online database as Otto, not Otho (NZ death index says Otho). Otho is the only O. HODGSON in the NZ online birth indexes from 1870 to 1900. Peter