WWI photographs

Turning our thoughts to next year's WWI centenary. We have photographs of 19 of the 53 men listed on the Otautau War Memorial. Do you have any photographs of the following men? We'd be grateful to have a copy.

• Allen, Leonard - Wairio labourer?
• Ayton, Joseph Beck - manager of Thomson & Beattie, Otautau
• Beck, James Robert Ewen - Wairio, horse trainer
• Clark, William James - labourer
• Dove, Albert Ernest - Australia? enslisted Wairio
• Ellis, Peter - Wairio, farmer
• Evans, G - no information
• Findlater, Albert Walter - Balclutha, blacksmith
• Ford, H - no information
• Ford, Robert Emmet - Otautau, blacksmith at Heddon Bush
• Ford, Sydney - born, Otautau; farmer
• Gavigan, Oliver Daly - Otautau, farmer
• Gonley, Dominic - born Ireland, salesman in Otautau
• Healey, William - born Invercargill, labourer
• Johnstone, Peter Thomas - Otautau, Wyndham Dairy Factory
• Ladlaw, Francis Andrew - Isla Bank, sawmiller
• Laidlaw, John George - Isla Bank, farmer
• Laing, James Duncan - Dipton, labourer
• Lindsay, Arthur David - Otautau, farmer
• McAfee, Joseph - Otautau, farm labourer
• McCaw, Douglas Victor - born Invercargill, worked for R Dickson, farmer, Otautau
• McKenzie, Dudley - Wairio, farmer
• Morris, John - born Australia, awmill hand, Scotts Gap
• Muir, Donald - Linton Park, Otautau
• O'Shaughnessy, Patrick - Wrey's Bush, labourer
• Pay, Ernest John - Kennington, cheesemaker, Ryal Bush Dairy Factory
• Poole, Albert Preswid - Isla Bank
• Poole, Edward Arthur - Isla Bank
• Powell, Walter James - Otautau, labourer, Buick farm, Yellow Bluff
• Scott, A.J. - no information
• Stephens, Thomas Adam - Otautau
• Thomas, Edward Richard - Otautau
• Ward, Andrew Hannah - father in Te Tua, farm labourer

Men who were not listed on the war memorial but who we think may have ties to this area are:

• Baird, Adam - Isla Bank, a bank clerk
• Barwell, George - previously Orawia farmer
• Blatch, Ernest Arthur - Otautau, farmer
• Blatch, John Robert - Otautau, farmer
• Braithewaite, Horace - Otautau, worked for James Ryan, Bayswater
• Deacon, James - Isla Bank, farmer
• Hardy, James - Otautau
• Johnstone, Robert - Isla Bank
• McKenzie, William Lindsay - Isla Bank, farmer
• McKenzie, William Norval - Isla Bank, farmer
• McMillan, Charles Robert - Fairfax, sawmiller
• Moriarty, John - Aparima? miner
• Smith, William Martin - Otautau or Nightcaps? ploughman
• Taylor, Joseph Beck - Aparima, farmer

In addition to those who died in WWI, we're interested in those who served and returned - and there were quite a few - as well as key figures in Otautau at the time:

• Mrs A. V. King
• John Fisher 
• William Wesney
• Dr Baird

If you have photos or further information on any of these people, please contact us. Thanks!

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