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B. 23</inm:Grave-Reference><inm:Cemetery-Register-No /><inm:Image-Address>f:\data\dbimages\ww1\1916D\BREMNERJ.JPG</inm:Image-Address><inm:Additional-Info /><inm:War>World War I, 1914-1918</inm:War><inm:Year-of-Death>1916</inm:Year-of-Death><inm:Iwi /><inm:First-Rank>Trooper</inm:First-Rank><inm:Religion /><inm:Enlistment-Date /><inm:Embarkation-Unit>Wellington Mounted Rifles</inm:Embarkation-Unit><inm:Previous-Military /><inm:Marital-on-Embarkn>Single</inm:Marital-on-Embarkn><inm:Medical-b4-Embarkn /><inm:Military-Training /><inm:Embarkation-Date>16 October 1914</inm:Embarkation-Date><inm:Embarking-Transport>HMNZT&#xa0;6 | HMNZT 10</inm:Embarking-Transport><inm:Place-of-Embarkation>Wellington, New Zealand</inm:Place-of-Embarkation><inm:Embark-Destination>Suez, Egypt</inm:Embark-Destination><inm:Award-Circumstances /><inm:POW-Date-of-Capture /><inm:POW-Locn-of-Capture /><inm:POW-Prior-Situation /><inm:POW-Camps /><inm:POW-Days-Interned /><inm:POW-Liberation-Date /><inm:Futher-Ref-of-person /><inm:Discharge-Date /><inm:Discharge-Cause /><inm:Oral-History /><inm:Postwar-Occupation /><inm:Obituary /><inm:Memorial-Name /><inm:Info-Supplier-Detail /><inm:POW-Serial-Number /><inm:Date-Captured>7 July 1996</inm:Date-Captured><inm:Age-on-Enlistment /><inm:Wounds-Diseases-Etc /><inm:Military-District>Wellington</inm:Military-District><inm:HsptlsDiseasesWounds>Wounded Gallipoli</inm:HsptlsDiseasesWounds><inm:Data-Entered-By>Unknown</inm:Data-Entered-By><inm:HonorificTitle /><inm:Sources-used>Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume I. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1914-1919</inm:Sources-used><inm:Sources-used>Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe &amp; Tombs. Digital copy URL: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html</inm:Sources-used><inm:DateRecordChecked /><inm:Hapu /><inm:Waka /><inm:Rohe /><inm:Ingoa /><inm:Management-Notes /><inm:Date-Modified>19 June 2007</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>21 September 2010</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Modified-by>PH</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>ctuitubou</inm:Modified-by><inm:Publish>3 October 2007</inm:Publish><inm:Gender>Male</inm:Gender><inm:Nom-pgn>75</inm:Nom-pgn><inm:Nom-rollnum>Vol1</inm:Nom-rollnum><inm:unique-id>NZEF01Roll-2640</inm:unique-id><inm:Embarkation-Body>Main Body</inm:Embarkation-Body><inm:Suppl-nom-info /><inm:Notes /><inm:nomrollimg>F:\data\dbimages\nomroll\NZEF01_0075.jpg</inm:nomrollimg><inm:Keywords /><inm:Liberation-Details /><inm:DescriptOfImage>Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1916</inm:DescriptOfImage><inm:TempTextFromCOD /><inm:AM-Geog-PoB /><inm:AM-Geog-NOK /><inm:AM-Geog-Enlist /><inm:AM-Geog-PoD /><inm:Memorial-Reference /><inm:Vessel>Orari or Arawa</inm:Vessel><inm:ArchivesNZ-ref /><inm:AWMM-Collections /><inm:Armoury-File-No /><inm:DocsOnFile /><inm:ArchivesNZ1>[http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=22278702 Military personnel file]</inm:ArchivesNZ1><inm:ArchivesNZ2 /><inm:ArchivesNZ3 /><inm:ArchivesNZ4 /><inm:CWGCCemetery /><inm:CWGCCasualties /><inm:NZETC /></inm:Record><inm:Record setEntry="1"><inm:Record-Id>21964</inm:Record-Id><inm:Surname>Cartwright</inm:Surname><inm:Forenames>James Samuel</inm:Forenames><inm:Alias /><inm:Date-of-Birth /><inm:Place-of-Birth /><inm:Rank-Last-Held>Lieutenant</inm:Rank-Last-Held><inm:Serial-Number /><inm:Address-b4-Enlistmnt /><inm:Job-b4-Enlistment /><inm:Next-of-Kin-Embarkn>Mrs M. cartwright (mother), Glenborough, Pleasant Point, South canterbury, new Zealand</inm:Next-of-Kin-Embarkn><inm:Unit-Last>Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Boadicea</inm:Unit-Last><inm:Other-Units /><inm:Military-Awards /><inm:Campaigns /><inm:Age-at-Death>25</inm:Age-at-Death><inm:Date-of-Death>13 June 1944</inm:Date-of-Death><inm:Cause-of-Death /><inm:Place-of-Death>English Channel</inm:Place-of-Death><inm:Casualty-Type /><inm:Biographical-Notes>James Cartwright was the son of William Robert and Maud Cartwright (nee Robinson) of Pleasant Point, Canterbury</inm:Biographical-Notes><inm:Cemetery-Name /><inm:Grave-Reference /><inm:Cemetery-Register-No /><inm:Image-Address>f:\data\dbimages\ww2\b06086.jpg</inm:Image-Address><inm:Image-Address>F:\data\dbimages\Cenotaph\f\C12716.jpg</inm:Image-Address><inm:Image-Address>F:\data\dbimages\Cenotaph\f\C12783.jpg</inm:Image-Address><inm:Image-Address>F:\data\dbimages\Cenotaph\f\C12779.jpg</inm:Image-Address><inm:Image-Address>F:\data\dbimages\ww2\C11003.jpg</inm:Image-Address><inm:Image-Address>F:\data\dbimages\ww2\C11005.jpg</inm:Image-Address><inm:Image-Address>F:\data\dbimages\ww2\C11004.jpg</inm:Image-Address><inm:Image-Address>F:\data\dbimages\WW2\C11009.jpg</inm:Image-Address><inm:Additional-Info>Next of kin details compiled from information in the Casualty lists published in the newspapers.</inm:Additional-Info><inm:War>World War II, 1939-1945</inm:War><inm:Year-of-Death>1944</inm:Year-of-Death><inm:Iwi /><inm:First-Rank /><inm:Religion /><inm:Enlistment-Date /><inm:Embarkation-Unit /><inm:Previous-Military /><inm:Marital-on-Embarkn>Single</inm:Marital-on-Embarkn><inm:Medical-b4-Embarkn /><inm:Military-Training /><inm:Embarkation-Date /><inm:Embarking-Transport /><inm:Place-of-Embarkation /><inm:Embark-Destination /><inm:Award-Circumstances /><inm:POW-Date-of-Capture /><inm:POW-Locn-of-Capture /><inm:POW-Prior-Situation /><inm:POW-Camps /><inm:POW-Days-Interned /><inm:POW-Liberation-Date /><inm:Futher-Ref-of-person>[http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/pleasant-point-war-memorial New Zealand History online. Pleasant Point war memorial.]</inm:Futher-Ref-of-person><inm:Futher-Ref-of-person>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&amp;cl=search&amp;d=EP19440815.2.84&amp;srpos Naval Casualties. Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1944, Page 6]</inm:Futher-Ref-of-person><inm:Discharge-Date /><inm:Discharge-Cause /><inm:Oral-History /><inm:Postwar-Occupation /><inm:Obituary /><inm:Memorial-Name>New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport Naval Base, HMNZS Philomel, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand</inm:Memorial-Name><inm:Memorial-Name>Pleasant Point War Memorial, South Canterbury</inm:Memorial-Name><inm:Memorial-Name>Pleasant Point School War Memorial, South Canterbury</inm:Memorial-Name><inm:Info-Supplier-Detail>Brian Davison, Levels Valley, RD4, Timaru, New Zealand</inm:Info-Supplier-Detail><inm:Info-Supplier-Detail>Brian Davison, Levels Valley, RD4, Timaru, New Zealand</inm:Info-Supplier-Detail><inm:POW-Serial-Number /><inm:Date-Captured>18 July 1999</inm:Date-Captured><inm:Age-on-Enlistment /><inm:Wounds-Diseases-Etc /><inm:Military-District /><inm:HsptlsDiseasesWounds /><inm:Data-Entered-By>Unknown</inm:Data-Entered-By><inm:HonorificTitle /><inm:Sources-used>McKenzie, R. (1970). And quiet now their rest. Wellington, Govt. Printer.</inm:Sources-used><inm:Sources-used>Commonwealth War Graves Commission. URL: http://www.cwgc.org</inm:Sources-used><inm:Sources-used>The Weekly News 1944</inm:Sources-used><inm:Sources-used>[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.]</inm:Sources-used><inm:Sources-used>Evening Post (Wellington)</inm:Sources-used><inm:DateRecordChecked /><inm:Hapu /><inm:Waka /><inm:Rohe /><inm:Ingoa /><inm:Management-Notes>Devonport Navy Panel 7</inm:Management-Notes><inm:Date-Modified>6 August 2006</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>04 December 2006</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>12 April 2009</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>17 January 2010</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>22 August 2010</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>16 January 2011</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>21 February 2011</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>12 December 2011</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>13 December 2011</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Date-Modified>5 March 2012</inm:Date-Modified><inm:Modified-by>JP</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>PH</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>phobbs</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>Libvol</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>gfortune</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>Phobbs</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>ctuitubou</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>Libvol</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>ctuitubou</inm:Modified-by><inm:Modified-by>ctuitubou</inm:Modified-by><inm:Publish>3 October 2007</inm:Publish><inm:Gender>Male</inm:Gender><inm:Nom-pgn /><inm:Nom-rollnum /><inm:unique-id /><inm:Embarkation-Body>Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve</inm:Embarkation-Body><inm:Suppl-nom-info /><inm:Notes /><inm:nomrollimg /><inm:Keywords /><inm:Liberation-Details /><inm:DescriptOfImage>Portrait from The Weekly News; 27 September 1944</inm:DescriptOfImage><inm:DescriptOfImage>New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport, Panel 7: Royal New Zealand Naval Reserve - Lieutenants, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve - Lieutenants, Sub-Lieutenants Bell - Purdy (digital photo John Halpin 2011)</inm:DescriptOfImage><inm:DescriptOfImage>New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport, detail (digital photo John Halpin 2011)</inm:DescriptOfImage><inm:DescriptOfImage>New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport and garden, detail (digital photo John Halpin 2011)</inm:DescriptOfImage><inm:DescriptOfImage>Pleasant Point War Memorial, South Canterbury, (Photo Brian Davison, 2009)</inm:DescriptOfImage><inm:DescriptOfImage>Pleasant Point War Memorial, South Canterbury, names WW2 (Photo Brian Davison, 2009)</inm:DescriptOfImage><inm:DescriptOfImage>Pleasant Point War Memorial, South Canterbury, VE Day, 50th anniversary plaque (Photo Brian Davison, 2009)</inm:DescriptOfImage><inm:DescriptOfImage>Pleasant Point School War Memorial, South Canterbury, Names WW2 (Photo Brian Davison, 2009)</inm:DescriptOfImage><inm:TempTextFromCOD /><inm:AM-Geog-PoB /><inm:AM-Geog-NOK /><inm:AM-Geog-Enlist /><inm:AM-Geog-PoD /><inm:Memorial-Reference>Panel 7</inm:Memorial-Reference><inm:Vessel /><inm:ArchivesNZ-ref /><inm:AWMM-Collections /><inm:Armoury-File-No /><inm:DocsOnFile /><inm:ArchivesNZ1 /><inm:ArchivesNZ2 /><inm:ArchivesNZ3 /><inm:ArchivesNZ4 /><inm:CWGCCemetery /><inm:CWGCCasualties /><inm:NZETC /></inm:Record></inm:Recordset></inm:Results>

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My cenotaph: 1996

"It’s the cat’s ass!”Werehamster, 1996

Others’ become ours to keep.

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