New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

Today we remember …

The grave of Mervyn Gorringe in Polygon Wood. Photographed for Marching in Memory, July 2015

The grave of Mervyn Gorringe in Polygon Wood. Photographed for Marching in Memory, July 2015

12th December 1917

Mervyn Gorringe, D Social 1891. Lance-Corporal, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Killed in action in an unknown engagement

He rowed for the 1st VIII in 1895.

He emigrated to New Zealand immediately upon leaving school in 1896, where he worked as a sheep farmer.  In 1904 he married Margaret Fraser. He returned to Europe in 1915 as a Lance-Corporal in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Aged 40
Mervyn Gorringe, Radley College Rowing VIII, 1895

Mervyn Gorringe, Radley College Rowing VIII, 1895