As Winston Churchill the British prime minister in war time said of the consequences of defeat
in a famous speech when England was under the grim threat of invasion “… but if we fail,..
then the whole world,.. including the United States, including all we have known and cared for,
will sink into the abyss of a new dark age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted
by the lights of perverted science…” Indeed the young mens efforts and loss of life
during this struggle were not a complete waste.
The following list of names has the Hawkes Bay district where the Roll of Honour person was born,
or if not born here, where his parents moved to Hawkes Bay, where he attended school and found
employment here before going to war. If this was the case the district is noted in brackets.
Sincere thanks to Errol Martyn for permission to use data from his books “For Your Tomorrow”
These 3 volumes give more detailed accounts of each action.
We urge anyone who has additions/discrepances/objections to the images or script to contact us
through this website to which we will speedily apply.