fact file of any thing else i couldn't  put in my other posts
dob 1886
hates washing
likes women 
doesnt mind a drink
patriotic
posotive attitude
optimistic
held the rank of Sergent for his whole war
after reterning to nz gives a speach to the hole school
belonged to the nz rifle brigade
served in France and Belgium
brown hair
brown eyes
6 foot tall

service medals British war medal
                         victory medal

9.1

 focus question: what where the most significant experiences for Alfred caddick at wellington college and during world war 1

evidence piece no. 1
letter
primary
  wellingtonian  may 1916 pg 42
Alfred caddick is looking forward to the western front

evidence piece no.2
photo
hard to say as it was taken a the time but not during the war so im going to say primary
google images
a photo of Alfred caddick after the war

evidence piece no.3
army records
primary and secondary (most was written at time but not all)
nz national archives
a complete albeit some times impossible to read guide to his war

 evidence piece no.4
letter
primary
wellingtonian  november 1916 pg 46
a general account of whats happened so far (being shipped up the western front)

evidence piece no.5
personal records
primary
nz archives
a medical history of his war but was very poorly scanned and is hard to understand

 1 i found his military records most useful as the y were a priceless bank of knowledge

2 reasonably well but i lack information on his time at school

3 i know the information i have selected is reliable because its all from official sources  or there is no reason to fake it

europe map

genneral war overview

Alfred caddick started the war as a teacher at wellington college and didn't join the war immediately but joined up on the 1st of January 1916 later that year he wrote a letter back to the school written at sea and in may so probably did not fight at the Somme however did fight at messines and pachendale and the final offensive of the war where he received a shrapnel wound to the head and was discharged and sent home to new zealand

alfred caddick after

the war as headmaster of christchurch boys high

1st post

this blog will follow the events in world war I of the old boy of wellington college Alfred Caddick