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                    [0] => These volumes contain details of New Zealand Army servicemen killed in action at Gallipoli and in France during the First World War.
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            [name] => Books of Active-Service Fatal-Casualty forms
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Otherwise Related: AD24 AD25 468, IA1 - , Personal files [Records of servicemen held at Base Records, Ministry of Defence. The information in this series is duplicated on these files.]
Many of the Active-Service Fatal-Casualty forms relating to the Third Battle of Ypres (also known as the Battle of Passchendaele) were digitised for an online exhibition: Passchendaele Casualty Forms. The digitised images are in alphabetical order by surname.
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            [history] => These volumes contain details of New Zealand Army servicemen killed in action at Gallipoli, France and Belgium during the First World War. They include the casualty forms for the Third Battle of Ypres (also known as the Battle of Passchendaele). There are two forms for each serviceman. 



Form B.103 gives the following details: regiment or corps, regimental number, rank, name, enlistment date, term of service, date of promotion to present rank or lance rank, reports of promotions, reductions, transfers, casualties, etc during active service; and report of fatal casualty (place, date, remarks). 



Form NZR.2 gives the following details: rank, name, unit, regimental number, date enlisted, marital status, date of birth, pre-enlistment occupation, height, weight, hair, eyes, complexion, religion, inoculations, place of birth, next of kin (name and address); reports of promotions, casualties, etc; and reports of burial (name, place, plot number). 



Originally, there were two sequences of volumes containing the active-service Fatal-casualty Forms. At some stage prior to being transferred to Archives New Zealand these two sequences were integrated. They have been used as a single sequence since this time. 



There does not appear to be any duplication between the two sequences. 



History of the records: 



The returns now bound in these volumes would have been sent from France to the New Zealand War Records Section at the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) united Kingdom (UK) Headquarters in London (AACR). The records of men killed at Gallipoli might have been transferred from the Australian New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) Headquarters in Alexandria to the New Zealand Divisional Headquarters in France and thence to London. They were probably bound into volumes there in 1918 before being sent to New Zealand c.1919. 



Item ABFK 519/94a was transferred by Headquarters, New Zealand Defence Force on 28 February 1994.
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