(01) Strength of Regiment as at 1 April
1915 date of commencement of regimental register prior to embarkation for
Peninsula including 3rd Reinforcements, Medical personnel,
chaplain, dental surgeon, veterinary officer and armourer.
(02) Landed on the
Peninsula.
(03) Reinforcements arrived ANZAC at Various dates.
(04) total on Peninsula.
(05) Killed in action and died of wounds.
(06) Died of sickness
(07) Missing
(08) Evacuated to hospital sick and wounded
(09) Total Casualties
(10) Regiment returned from Peninsula to Lemnos
on 14 Sep 1915 for a spell and to be re-established.
This website has been prepared by
the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula
This cemetery is named after this Regiment as 16 of the 22 known graves are of the CMR. In the Roll Book of the Canterbury Mounted Riffles (*) opened on 1 April 1915 are the statistics of the campaign, neatly written in red copperplate handwriting. It tells the story of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at the end of August 1915 :
|
(01) |
officers : 33 |
Other Ranks : 673 |
|
(02) |
officers : 26 |
Other Ranks : 459 |
|
(03) |
officers : 06 |
Other Ranks : 186 |
|
(04) |
officers : 32 |
Other Ranks : 645 |
|
(05) |
officers : 05 |
Other Ranks : 108 |
|
(06) |
officers : 02 |
Other Ranks : 010 |
|
(07) |
officers : 01 |
Other Ranks : 045 |
|
(08) |
officers : 23 |
Other Ranks : 443 |
|
(09) |
officers : 31 |
Other Ranks : 606 |
|
(10) |
officers : 01 |
Other Ranks : 039 |
Information transcribed from "Gallipoli, The New Zealand Story", (Auckland 1998), Christopher Pugsley, p.326
