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From: Murray Buckman
Date: 2024 Jan 31, 17:38 -0800
One more thing to close the loop - just to put a face to the name mentioned for a bit of fun.
The photograph linked shows Arthur Stock with officers of the Wellington Naval Artillery Volunteers circa 1880. At the time my g.g. grandfather was a sergeant in the Wellington Naval Artillery Volunteers and would have known each of these men. You might ask how a non-commissioned office in a naval unit can be a sergeant - as this is not a naval rank. The volunteer artillery followed the ranks of the marines and so the senior NCO rank was a sergeant (indeed, there was a colour sergeant and, potentially, a sergeant major, though such records as I hold do not identify a sergeant-major within his "battery" at the time).
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22889421?search%5Bi%5D%5Bname_authority_id%5D=-88652&search%5Bpath%5D=items
Murray
