Our Graves and Memorials team plans to replace eight headstones in Featherston Cemetery as they are in poor condition and can no longer be maintained to a suitable standard.

This cemetery is the resting place for service personnel who trained at Featherston Military Training Camp.  

We would like to contact any family members before work begins. If you are related to any of the following, please contact [email protected]  

• Name: Peter Holes
• Service Number: 91585
• Date of death: 12 November 1918
• Rank: Private, New Zealand Training Unit
   
• Name: William Wadsworth Davidson Colville
• Service Number: 87422
• Date of death: 22 November 1918
• Rank: Private, New Zealand Training Unit
   
• Name: James Adolphus J. Black
• Service Number: N/A
• Date of death: 21 November 1918
• Rank: Gunner, New Zealand Field Artillery
   
• Name: Percy Henry James
• Service number: 83713
• Date of death: 13 November 1918
• Rank: Private, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
   
• Name: Edward Robert Issell
• Service number: 81439
• Date of death: 17 November 1918
• Rank: Private, New Zealand Training Unit
   
• Name: James Smith
• Service Number: N/A
• Date of death: 6 July 1916
• Rank: New Zealand Training Unit
   
• Name: George Henry Prentice
• Service Number: 6/329
• Date of death: 18 November 1918
• Rank: Second Lieutenant, Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 12th (Nelson) Coy., 3rd Battalion
   
• Name: Christopher Charles Moore
• Service Number: 66787
• Date of death: 22 November 1918
• Rank: New Zealand Training Unit

We are the New Zealand agent for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and are responsible for marking and maintaining the graves and memorials of all war casualties in New Zealand.  

For more information, see the graves and memorials section on our website.  

Graves and memorials