Although Symonds Street Cemetery was closed to new burial plots in 1886, people continued to be buried there if they had family already there right up until 1950s - from the end of 1909, they had the added requirement of needing to also be over 50 years of age.
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| Full length portrait of Private William Parker, Reg No 38740, of the Auckland Infantry Regiment, 22nd Reinforcements, - E Company. Killed in action in France on 4th October 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele. Heritage Images: 'Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 31-P2442' |
However, there are 11 names associated with World War One noted in the Cemetery. Memorials were erected for soldiers lost in action. These are:
- Sapper Walter Edwin Clarke (4/516) who was killed in action on Gallipoli on 7 August 1915.
- Sapper Alfred Ernest Drummond (12/2687) who was killed in action in France on 4 October 1917.
- Private Walter Drummond (12/3307) who was killed in action in France on 26 September 1916.
- Private Thomas William Hobson (12/3681) who was killed in action in France on 7 July 1916.
- Corporal Leonard Ivy Joseph McCarthy (24663) who was killed in action in France on 17 February 1918.
- Private Ernest Wieland Monk of the Royal Fusiliers who died in France on 12 March 1916.
- Lance Corporal Charles Stanley Nicholson (23/535) who was killed in action in France on 15 September 1916.
- Corporal Edward John Parker (2/2896) who was killed in action in France on 26 September 1918.
- Private William Parker (38740) who was killed in action in France on 4 October 1917.
- Rifleman Stanley William Rowe (26690) who was killed in action in France on 12 June 1917.
- Wesley Neal Spragg, Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in action in Egypt on 1 January 1918.
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