Neil McLeod Matheson was one of four brothers who served in WW1. Pat, as he was known, died after just three months on the Western Front. A railwayman, he is commemorated on rolls of honour in both Dunedin and Wellington stations. A page on this website tells more of his story.
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I’ve updated the material on our website about Mathesons who served in the First World War. There are new pages on: Alexander Mathieson 46751 Alexander Duncan Mathieson 31520 Angus Neil Matheson 51407 Hugh Alexander Matheson 32868 William Matheson 27544 And updated pages on: Alexander George Matheson 15205 John McArthur Mathieson 31519 Much of this additional
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Three Mathesons are on a list of those called ‘military defaulters’, who refused to take part in the First World War. This new article on the website describes how badly they were treated.
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This Anzac Day sees a new section on the Clan Matheson New Zealand website about New Zealand Mathesons who served in the Second World War. Telling their stories is a large exercise, made difficult in part because the WW2 service personnel files have not yet been digitised, unlike those from WW1. To kick this project
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We know of 80 Mathesons who went overseas from New Zealand to fight in the First World War. They’re listed on our website, and you can now follow links from 25 of the 80 entries to find out more about some individuals. In passing I’ve written accounts of four Mathesons who served in other countries’ armed
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I’ve added material to the page on the clan website that contains additional information about Mathesons who served in the First World War. Thanks to one of the publications about New Zealand Mathesons, I’ve been able to tell something of the story of twin brothers Alexander Victor Mathieson and William Alfred Mathieson and their cousin
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The Onward Project seeks to locate and publish a photograph of every member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who served overseas during the First World War of 1914-1918. Each image is captioned with the name and service number of the individual, plus a reference to the source of the photo. Three volumes in the
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There’s a brief update to our page of further information about Mathesons and Mathiesons who served in the First World War. Kenneth Mathieson (listed third from the end) had lived in New Zealand and was popular in his local community. He died in the early stages of the war while serving with a British regiment.
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Thanks to the sleuthing efforts of Zelda Matheson, and the resources of the Westport Genealogy and History Group, another mystery has been solved. I couldn’t work out why T A Mathieson was commemorated on the Granity war memorial on the West Coast, yet I could find out nothing about him on the Cenotaph database or
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War is tragic and the First World War was especially so, but it had an interesting outcome in connecting New Zealanders of Scottish descent with their ancestral homeland. A new article on this website links to a researcher’s blog post on this topic, and uses one example of this ‘roots tourism’ that was generated by WW1.
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