Early Life :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Although many perished in times of national conflict and in the service of their country, many more survived including those interned as Prisoners of War. Stories of those who did survive are included as part of this site, especially those with high gallantry awards, those included against an external rolls of honour and those who had a distinguished career in wartime and military leaderhip.

Detail :

4/1925 Corporal Forbes Findlay Gilmore, New Zealand Engineers, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Enlisted for service 18th November, 1915.

Discharged from the military 18th April, 1919 after 3 years 152 days on active service.

His portrait image is to be found on Page 31 of the Otago Witness of 25th October, 1916.

His is commemorated for his service on the Auckland Musuem Online Cenotaph.

Masonic :

Listed as an Electrical Engineer from Dunedin at the time of his initiation in the immediate pre-war period. His war service is shown on the contribution register after which he picks up payment of dues beyond 1921.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley