3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles, New Zealand

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Please include information on the sources or evidence (for example, military records) used to link a particular person to a specific unit.

Personal narratives

(Original personal diaries, letters, memoirs etc written by people in this unit)

Sergeant Jack Hislop Birch

A note, presumably from Chris & Neil: 'These pages are transcribed from the Diary of my Maternal Grandfather who fought in the 1st World War on the Battlefields of Galipolli, Sainai, and Palestine.' Sources, evidence: not checked.

Related media (images etc)

(Digitised photographs, images of personal items, etc)

Other Sources

Unit war diaries

(The official accounts of movements and daily activities written by an officer of the unit at the time) War diaries from 1915 to 1918 have been digitised and are freely available online in the [http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1000936/ AWM4 Subclass 35/2 - Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment collection on the Australian War Memorial site]

Official unit histories

Bibliography

(Published histories, websites, etc)

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles squadron on New Zealand history.

Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment timeline by Peter Connor and Damien Fenton for New Zealand history.