1918 INFLUENZA KARORI CEMETERY
  1918 Influenza Karori Cemetery Project
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741 people died of influenza in Wellington in late 1918 and early 1919.  667 of them were buried at Karori Cemetery.  Included in this number are 6 people who died of influenza and were buried in the Jewish section, and 108 soldiers who were buried in the newly developed Services section.(see below).

There are three main areas at Karori Cemetery - Anglican, Catholic, and Public2 – where those who died from influenza were buried.  Many of their plots have been progressively cleaned and tidied by the Project team, and research about those who died has resulted in more than 170 of their stories being uploaded to this website.

109 soldiers were interred in the Services section of Karori Cemetery during November and December 1918. 108 of them died of influenza, many of them while resident at the Training Unit at Trentham Military Camp, Upper Hutt. Some men had served overseas and had been repatriated as no longer fit for active service, but had been redeployed to undertake various roles at Trentham. Most though had recently been balloted and were preparing to be sent to the Front. Their headstones and the general environs are well-maintained and orderly.
108 soldiers names are listed towards the end of this page.

74 people who died of influenza in Wellington were buried in other locations – the burial locations of 43 of these people are unknown; 7 were buried in the Bolton Street Cemetery; 21 staff and inmates of the Porirua Mental Asylum were buried in Porirua Cemetery; 2 in the churchyard at St. John’s church, Johnsonville; and 1 person from Wellington was buried at Taita Cemetery. 
2 people were cremated at Karori and their ashes removed.


Click on names in orange below to link to stories of those who died of influenza.
​Those with (p) after the name just have photos of the grave.​

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If you want to print any of the stories from this website please follow the printing guidance here.
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​ALSOP, Alfred
ANDERSON, Hannah
ANDERSON, Hubert
ANDERSON, William
ANDREWS, Samuel
APPLETON, Mary
ARCHER, Elizabeth
ARCHER, Jessie
ARMSTRONG, John
ARMSTRONG, Raymond
ARNOLD, Clara
ASKEW, George
ASTON, Martha
ATKINSON, James
AUSTIN, Baby
AUSTIN, Percival
AXELL, George
AYDON, George
BAILEY, Thomas
BAILEY, Florence (p)
​BAILEY, Mabel

BAKER, William (Percy)
BALLANTYNE, Robert
BALLANTYNE, Robina
BANKS, Jessie
BARCLAY, John
BARLOW, Edmond
BARLOW, Harry
BARNES, Alice
BARRACLOUGH, William
BARRY, Joseph
BARRY, Mary
BARTLETT, Mary (p)
BATTERSBY, Guinevere
BEAGLEY, Margaret
BECK, Henry
BEDELL, Dulcie
BEDMEAD, Edith

BELCHER, Horace
BELL, Charles (p)
BENNETT, John
BERRY, Harold (p)
BHAGA, Parbhic
BHAGA, Phedia
BOBIN, Claude (p)
BONASICH, Christopher
BONASICH, William
BOOKER, Betty
​BOOCK, Bertram
BOULDEN, Rhoda
BOWEN, Charles
BOWEN, Alice
BOWN, Mabel
BRADLEY, Pipiana
BRIGGS, Norman
BROMSCOMBE, Arthur
BROWN, William
BROWN, Winifred
BUCKINGHAM, Florence
BUCKLEY, William (p)
BURCHER, Margery
BURGH, Frances?
BURLINGTON or DARLINGTON, Peter
BURNS, Eddie
BURNS, Frank
BUTTERTON, Stuart
CALLANAN, Timothy (p)
CALVERT, Isabella
CAMERON, John
CAMPBELL, Annie (p)
CAMPBELL, Frederick
CAMPBELL, George
CAMPBELL, Isabella

CARRIG, Nellie
CARRIG, Timothy
CARTER, James
CARTER, Joseph
CARTMER, James
CASEY, Ernest
​CHALLIS, Frederick

CHISHOLM, Dorothy
CHRISTIE, Charles (p)
CLACKER, Hector
CLARKE, Nia (Nellie) (p)
CLARK, Mary
CLARK, John
CLARKE, Amelia
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CLAYDEN, Annie
CLAYDEN, Sydney
CLEVELAND, Eva
COLEMAN, Victor
COLLINS, Albert

COLLINS, Nellie (p)
CONNOLLY, Arthur
​CONNOR, Ivy

COOK, Arthur
COOK, Minnie
COOKE, Samuel (p)
COOMBER, John
COOPER, Druscilla (p)
CORLISS, John
COSTIN, Frank
COVENY, Frederick
COWIE, Rosina
COWLEY, Joyce

CRANEFIELD, William
CREED, Alfred

CRESS, Zillah
CROOK, Verne
CROOKS, Douglas
CROSBY, Peter
CULLUM, Ivy
CULLUM, Leonard

CUNLIFFE, Richard
CUNNINGHAM, Thomas (p)
CUNNINGHAME, Ada (p)
CURRIE, John
CURRY, Charles
CURRY, John
DALEY, Michael

DANIELS/DOWNEY, Thomas
DARLINGTON or BURLINGTON, Peter
DARROCH, William (p)
DAVEY, Benjamin
DAVIES, Mary
​DAVIS, Frank

DAWSON, Walter
DAY, George
DE CLIFFORD, Mildred (p)
DE STEFANO, Guiseppe
DE VERE, Louis
DE VERE, Sheila
DEANY, Mary (p)
DEE, Gerald

DELHAM, William
DENNIS, Wilfred
DENTICE, Mary
DHULLA, Bhula
DIACK, Christopher
DIVER, Dennis
DIXON, Maud
DONNELLY, Mary
DOOLAN, Jessie
DOUGLAS, Lydia
DOWDALL, John
DREWETTE, John
DUMBLE, Frederick
DUNCAN, Henry
DUNCAN, Mary

DURNEY, Augustine (p)
DURNING, Ernest (p)
EADES, Florence
EAGER, Emily
ECCLES, James
EISFELDER, George (p)
ELTON, Alex

ENGEL, Harry
ESCOTT, Ellen
EVANS, Stella
EVITT, Charles
FAKIR, Rangi
FARRELL, Amy
FARROW, Mary
FAY, Anthony
FAY, Kathleen
FEARN, George
FIEBIG, Emily
FISHER, William
FITZGERALD, Baby
FITZGERALD, Geraldine

FITZGERALD, Gertrude
FITZGERALD, Michael (p)
FITZGIBBON, Michael
FITZSIMMONS, Harry
FLEMING, Amy (p)
FLYGER, Osmond

FORRESTER, Muriel (p)
FORRESTER, Vera (p)
FOSTER, Joseph
FRASER, Alexander J
FREDERICKSON, Richard
FREDRIC, Albert
FRIBERG, Gustav
FRYER, William
FURK, Rupert
FURNISS, Herbert
GALBRAITH, Samuel
GALLAUGHER, Edward
GALVIN, Percival
GEARY, William
GIBBES, William
GIBSON, Mary
GIBSON, Sydney
GILCHRIST, John (p)
GILES, Jessie
GILES, Joseph

GODDARD, William
GOLDBLATT, Jessie

GOLLAN, Walter (p)
GORDON, Thomas

GORE, William (p)
GOTT, Robert (p)
GOURIO, Malo
GRACE, Hilda
GRAHAM, Thomas
GRANT, William

GREENHALGH, William
GREENING, Christina
GRIFFITHS, John
GROUHAND, Victor
GUTHRIE, Thomas
HACKETT, Ada
HALL, Gilbert (p)

HAMERTON, Gilbert
​HANSON, E(liza?)

HARDIN, Olive (p)
HARDING, Victor

HARPER, James
HARRIS, Ellen
HARRIS, Henry
​HARRIS, Walter
HARRISON, Pauline
HART, Bert
HASSELBERG, Dan
HAWKINS, Alfred
HAWKINS, Katherine
HAYES, Michael
HEALEY, Patrick (p)
HEAP, Sadie
HENDERSON, Hubert
HENSON, Gerald
HEWITT, Myrtle (p)
HILL, John
HILL, Ernest
HILLS, Charles
HINDLE, John
HINDMARSH, Alfred
HINSON, Charles
HOCKER, Arthur
HODSON, James
HOLLOWAY, Edwin (p)
HOLLOWAY, Evelyn (p)

HOLMES, Mathew
HOL(T)Z, Minnie
HOOD, Mary

HOUGHTON, Robert
HOW, Nora
HOWELL, Arthur
HOYLE, Charlotte (p)
HUESTON, William
HUGHES, Francis
HULEAND, Auguste
HUTTON, Lona
ISAACS, George (p)
IVAR, Henry
ISHERWOOD, Eileen
JACKSON, George
JACKSON, Isabel
JACKSON, William
​JACOBSON, Frank (p)
JAMES, Percy

JAMES, William (p)
JENKINS, Marshall
JENNINGS, Elsie
JIGGENS, Arthur
JOHNS, Rosa
JORGENSON, Valdemar
JUDD, Stephen
KALLSTROM, Alma
KEANE, John (p)
KEEGAN, Mary
KELLY, Elizabeth
KELLY, William

KELLY, Winifred
KENNEDY, Florence (p)
KIDSON, Mary

KING, Frederick Gordon
KING, Frederick James
KING, Henry
KING, Robert
KNILANDS, William
​KRUGER, John​​
KUNG, Sing Cum
​LANDOS, Auguste
​LANGWORTHY, Albert
​LARKIN, Frederick
​LARKIN, John (p)

LARNACK, Elizabeth
LARSEN, Anton
LARSEN, Ivy
LAWSON, George

LE COZE, Yves
LEWIS, John
LEWIS, Ronald (p)

LIDDY, Elsie
LINDDALL, Jack
LINEKER, James
LINGARD, Florence
LINKLATER, John
LOFTUS, Mary (p)
LOGAN, John (p)
LOGAN, Jessie
LONGHURST, Frances (p)
LOWICK, Ruby
LUCAS, Florence

LUNN, Noel (p)

​MACAULEY, Elizabeth
MACCA, M
MACHU, Rachel
MAGEE, Mary (p)
MAKEN, Jack
MALCOLM, John
MARSHALL, Christina
MARTIN, Albert (p)
MARTIN, Charles

MARTIN, Florence (p)
MARTIN, Jemima (p)

MARTIN, Joseph
MARTIN, Mabel
MASSEY, Charles (p)
MASTERS, George
MASTROGEORGE, Antonio (p)
MATTHEWS, Charles (p)
MCCARTHY, Mary
MCDUFF, John (p)
MCEWEN, Ethel
MCILLANEY, Cornelius
MCINERNAY, T
MCKENZIE, John (p)
MCKINLAY, Cyril (p)
MCLAINE, Aexander
MCLAUGHLIN, Charles

MCLEOD, Amelia
MCLEOD, Flora
MCLEOD, Isabella (p)
MCLEOD, John (p)
MCMANUS, Mathias (p)
MCMILLIN, Dora (p)
MCNAMARA, Catherine
MCNAMARA, Patrick

​MCNEISH, James
MCNIVEN, Donald
MCPARLIN, Thomas (p)
MCPARTLAND, Cicely
MCPHERSON, Joseph (p)
MCVICAR, John (p)
MCWHIRTER, George (p)
MELVILLE, Annie
MILLER, William
MILLS, Eileen (p)
MILNER, Mary
MILROY, James
MONCRIEFF, Rhoda
MOORE, Ellen
MORAN, Elizabeth
MORGAN, John (p)
MORRIS, William
MORTON, Ellen
MOSS, William
MOUAT, William
MURCHIE, Leonore
MURPHY, Lawrence (p)
MURTON, Frank
NANDON, George
NEAGLE, Thomas
NEWDICK, Herbert
NICHOLLS, John (Jack) (p)
NORMAN, George
NOTT, Mary
NOTT, Frank
NOTTINGHAM, Alfred
NYE, George (p)
OBEN, Henry
O'BRIEN, Charles
O'BRIEN, Julia
O'BRIEN,Mary
O'CONNELL, John (p)
O'CONNOR, John
ODDY, George
OGILVIE, James (p)
O'MALLEY, Daniel
O'MEARA, Margaret
(Sister Mary Natalie)
OFSOFSKI, Frank
O'REILLY, Phillip
ORR, Mary
OUGHTON, Hannah
PACKER, Edward
PAGE, John
PALMER, Ernest
PALMER, Sydney
PARTON, Rebekah
PATTERSON, David
PAUL, John
PEACH, Henry
PERRY, John (p)
PERRY, Hamilton
PETERSEN, Jacqueline
PETERSON, Alice (p)
PETHERICK, Sarah
PHILLIPS, Mary (p)
PHILLIPS, Perry
PITCAITHLY, Vernon
PLAYER, George
POLLEN, Henry
POTIERI, Florence
POTTER, John (p)
PRATER, Agnes (p)
PRICE, Francis (p)
PURDEY, George (p)
PURDEY, James (p)
PYE, Phyllis
PYOTT, George
QUAINTANCE, Ernest
QUINLIVAN, George
QUINLIVAN, Laurence

QUINLIVAN, Josephine
QUIRK, Joseph (p)
RAIT, Kate

RAMSBOTTOM-ISHERWOOD, Reginald
REDMOND, Terence
REDSTONE, Ernest
REES, Michael (p)
REVELL, Cath
REYLING, Kathleen
REYNOLDS, James
RHODES, Maude
RHODES, Victor
RICHARDSON, Theobald (p)
RITCHIE, Thomas (p)
RITTNER,Clara

ROBERTS, Augustus (p)
ROBERTS, Dorothy
ROBERTSON, Donald
ROBERTSON, Elizabeth
ROBERTSON, Lavinia

ROBERTSON, Stewart
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ROBINSON, Charlotte (p)
ROBINSON, Eva
ROBINSON, Luther
RODGERS, Frederick
ROGERS, Charles (p)
ROGERS, Edith
ROONEY, Thomas (p)
ROSS, Verdon
ROWBERRY, Joseph
RUDDUCK, Jessie
RUDGE, Harry (p)
RUDKIN, Anita (p)
RUSHTON, Charles
RUSSELL, Charles (p)
SAGE, Joseph
SANDS, Frank
SAUNDERS, John
SAUNDERS, George (p)
SCHENKEL, Edward
SCOTT, Edith
SCOTT, Jean
SCOTT, Thomas
SEATON, Christina (p)
SELBY, Frederick
SELLAR, Thomas
SELLARS, Margaret
SHAND, Erica
SHAW, Herbert
SHEEHAN, Margaret (p)
SHERWIN, William
SHORE/SHAW, William
SHORT, Alfred
SHORTER, Emily (p)
SILK, William
SIMMONS, Kathleen
SIMPSON, Jonathan
SIMS, Harry
SINCLAIR, Helen (p)
SINCLAIR, Ebenezer (p)
SKERRY, Gretha

SMITH, Alfred
SMITH, Bertie
SMITH, Charles

SMITH, Elsie (p)
SMITH, Louisa
SMITH, Ngarita (p)
SMITH, Sydney
SMITH, William
SMITTON, Janet
SPENCER, Ernest
SPENCER, Enoch
SPROWELL, Mary

STACK, Baby
STACK, Susan (p)
STANDEN, Leonard
STAVELEY, Frank
STEAD, Frank

STEWART, Julia
STEWART, Mary (p)
STICK, Albert
STONE, James
STRACHAN, Matilda
SYMMONDS, Thomas

TAITE, Te Paea
TAMAIRA, Te Heke
TAYLOR, William
TE NGATA, Timmy
THOMPSON, Walter
THOMPSON, Alexander
THORNDON, Henry
THOW, Dolly

TIGHE-UMBERS, Crofton
TIMLIN, Julia
TONG, Agnes
TOUT, Emmie
TRAILL, James
TREGONNING, William
TREVITHICK, Elizabeth (p)
TROWER, Jean
TURNBULL, Sydney (p)
TUTTY, George
TWOHY, James

VAN STAVEREN, Henry

WALKER, Albert (p)
WALLACE, Vida (p)
WALSH, Phillip
WALTON, Meredith

WARD, George
WARD, James (p)
WARD, Sarah
WATERS, Frederick
WATTS, Elsie
WEAVER, William
WEAVER, Mabel

WEIR, Daniel (p)
WELBOURNE, Henry (p)
WELLBROOK, William
WELLER, George (p)
WERNER, Mary (p)
WHEATLEY, Arthur
WHELAN, Annie
WHELAN, Olive
WHELDON, Nellie
WHITAKER, Margaret (p)
WHITE, Albert
WILLIAMS, Harold
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WILLIAMS, William E (p)
WILLIAMSON, John
WILSON, Eileen

WILSON, Harry
WILSON, John

WILSON, Phyllis
WILSON, Thomas (p)
WILTSHIRE, Henry
WINSTANLEY, Oswald
WOLFE, William
WOODWARD, Baby
WOODWARD, Helena
WOOLF, Gilbert
WRIGHT, Christopher
WRIGHT, Agnes (p)
YOUNG, Alfred (p)
YOUNG, Sue
YOUNG, Tim
ZORN, Bert (p)
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SOLDIERS
(click on names in orange to link to their story)
ANDERSON, Thomas
ARLOW, Albert
ATYEO, Frederick
AVERY, Alfred
BADDILEY, Augustus

BAKER, Ernest
BARBER, Ernest
BELL, James
BERWICK, William
BIRCH, Arthur
BLAMEY, George
BREWER, Alfred
BROWN, George
BROWN, James
BROWN, Thomas
BRUNTON, Ralph
BURGESS, Frederick
CARTER, Horace
​CASHMAN, John
CHAPMAN, Sidney
CLARK, William
COBB, Arthur
COBELDICK, Francis
COCKLE, Edward
COLLINGS, William
CONNELL, John
CORCORAN, Hugh
CROWE, Ernest
DEVINE, Arthur
DOIG, Henry
ELLIS, Alfred
FARLAND, Norman
FITZPATRICK, Thomas
FLANAGAN, John
FLOOD, Cliff
FRASER, Alexander
FRIEND, John
GALVAN, Alfred
GARVIE, William
GOODWIN, Robert
HANSEN, Frederick
HARLEN, Thomas
HART, Jas (John)
HAWKHEAD, William
HAY, George
HIGGINS, John
HOGAN, James
HOGAN, Michael
ILLINGWORTH, Richard
JACK, Alexander
JAMES, Edwin
​​JOINES, Thomas
JONES, William
LATIMER, Leslie

​LAWSON, Thomas
LINFORD, Horace
LUCAS, Joseph
MACKELLAR, Duncan
MACMAHON, Russell
MADIGAN, Edward
MAHER, Jas
MARSHALL, Jas
MARSHALL, Joseph

MARTIN-SMITH,  Leslie
MAYNARD, Frederick
MCKENZIE, Arthur
MCKENZIE, Donald
MCMILLAN, Robert

MCTIGUE, Edward
MERRIN, Percy
MILLAR, Frederick
MINIFIE, Charles

MORRIS, Herbert
MORRIS, James
MURPHY, William
NORTH, David
O'NEILL, John
PERRITON, William
PETERS, Charles
PRICE, John
PRINCE, Stanley  (Prime)
QUANE, Denis
RICKARD, George
RUSH, John
RUSHFORD, Henry
SALE, John
SAUNDERSON, George
SCRIVEN, Alfred
SHORT, James
SIMMONDS, George
SIMMONS, Hugh
SLIGHT, Herbert
SMITH, Arthur
SPENSLEY, Edgar
STEWART, George
STEWART, Robert
SULLIVAN, David (Daniel)
TROTT, Douglas
TURNER, William
WHELDON, Albert
WILLIAMS, Andrew
WILLIAMS, William H
WILSON, James
WILSON, Samuel
WILSON, William
WINTER, Percival
WOODS, Reginald
WRIGHT, Cecil (Harry)

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