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April 23 2014
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Sisters remember an uncle lost in war by Belinda Cullen-Reid
One hundred years after the beginning of World War One two sisters stand before a war memorial in Kowhai Bush near Springfield looking at the name of an uncle they never met.
Anzac portrait project in Selwyn
A project to capture photographic portraits of World War Two veterans will include former Selwyn servicemen …
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Citizens Advice Bureau for Darfield
Eighteen months of planning has come to fruition with the setting up of a Citizen’s Advice Bureau agency …
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ANZAC heritage on display
For the last year Daphne McAven of Prebbleton has immersed herself in the lives of local soldiers who served in World War I …
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Sisters Diana Reid, left, and Barbara Jordan at the Kowhai Bush War Memorial where their uncle William Thomas Milliken is remembered. A list of Anzac Day events in the Selwyn district can be found on page 9
One of those sisters is my mother. Years earlier, after accessing my Great Uncle’s war diary and letters home, I wrote a thesis about his experiences as part of my postgraduate studies in sociology at the University of Canterbury. William Thomas Milliken was just 22 years old when he left Brookesdale sheep station up the back of Springfield, to join the Canterbury Mounted Rifle Company which fought in Egypt and Palestine. One of 12 children to John and Elizabeth Milliken, immigrants from
Island Magee in Scotland, William was a good letter writer and recalled anecdotes from war to his brothers, sisters and parents many miles away. Conditions were basic, as can be attested to from letters home. “We don’t sleep in tents out here, we might have to shift in a few moments notice. All I have for my bivvie is a hole in the ground two feet deep and long enough to lie down in, one waterproof sheet, one blanket and overcoat. I have not had my clothes off for 10 days now except to bath once and to search for
those little grey insects that pester me sometimes. “I notice you [at home] always seem to have plenty of visitors on a Sunday and the dinner you have ready for them, well it fairly makes my mouth water when you mention the variety you have. I’d just love to sit down to a decent dinner now. The last dinner I had worth mentioning was in Melbourne on Christmas day. Our chief rations are bully beef, marmalade jam and bread which is generally pretty dry by the time it reaches us,” (May 17 1917). continued on page 6 …
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