I notice Barbagene's last posts etc are from 2004 and her contact details are no longer valid. If you are reading this Barbagene I have a photo I would like to include with below. It is unusual in that it shows George Maxwell wearing full kilt as a uniform, would be keen to hear from any other Kiwis who have a similar photo from before the formation of the WWI Pioneer Battalions. I understand NZ for a very short period had an early Scottish force -the uniform was beige, black and the tartan appears to be a dark green Maxwell, George Lance-Corporal, NZ. Pioneer ( Maori) Battalion New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914-1918 WWI Started in a Scottish force ( Auckland, NZ) then became a Private in the 2nd Maori Contingent 28.08.15, as a bugler - disembarked Auckland aboard HM Te Waitemata to the Suez 26.10.15 07/03/1916 was sent to the NZ A-Companies training base at Zeitoun ( just outside Cairo, Egypt) From Egypt 1915-1916 he was sent to Port Said and onwards to Western Europeon front Served at Western Europe 1916,1917,1918 Awarded  Military Medal for conspicious bravery and devotion to duty in St Jeans area between  Wieltje-Gravenstafel,Passchendaele, France. On 18th & 19th October 1917, Private Maxwell was one of a party detailed to repair road damaged by shellfire between  Wieltje-Gravenstafel. The work was carried out under harrasing shellfire and other adverse conditions and Maxwell by his cheerfulness and coolness under fire encouraged his mates. He also assisted to extricate horses and mules bogged in shell holes after they had been abandoned by their drivers. October 1918- Liverpool, UK  on leave WWII Cpl Lt in 5th Battalion N.M.R Class II served in NZ home guard from 10.01.1942 to 20.11.1943 died 09.10.1963 buried at Umupuia ,Auckland George Maxwell survived to father 18 children, his father Patrick produced 13 children and his Grandfather Thomas Maxwell from the UK travelled the high seas to NZ around 1825. He married a Maori woman of noble birth to whom he had 6 sons. The New Zealand branch of this family has many decendants living throughout the world today