Maheno war memorial grove. A concrete plinth with engraved plastic (formica) plate. It records 37 service persons names, all First World War. Notable for multiple (family) deaths 3xWilson sons, 3xOrr sons, 3xNichols sons. About 20 deciduous trees. One bronze plate on a wooden cross 'Private W J Muldrew Killed in France 1918' is near one of the trees.
The Maheno memorial grove is a part of a network of North Otago memorial oak groves.
The original North Otago memorial oaks were planted in 1919, however, as subsequent development resulted in a number of these threes being lost, and many of the original and crosses purloined or broken, in the 1950s a local surveyor Jack Horner agitated for the establishment of alternative groves of memorial trees. As an aside, many of the brass plates were later found in the berms and grass and have been collected at the North Otago Museum. Since the 1990s a committee has replaced the wooden crosses, and the North Otago Memorial Oaks have again become a much more well recognised important part of the fabric of North Otago's history.
The plaque on the plinth was replaced in 2014 - see last thumbnail.
The other groves are those at Oamaru, Kakanui, Glencoe Domain, Ardgowan School, and Hampden.
Maheno War Memorial Grove First World War Names
A.Anderson
J.Angus
C.Barr
G.Bateman
J.Burgess
W.Calder
A.Cruikshank
A.Dewar
D.B.Dewar
H.Dunlop
R.Galbraith
J.Harvey
E.E.Islip
C.Jackman
D.A.Kinimont
W.Kinimont
A.Ledingham
E.Lindsay
A.Mathieson
C.Harvey
W.J.Mulgrew
C.R.Nichols
J.C.Nichols
K.M.Nicholson
J.J.Orr
R.C.Orr
W.J.Orr
D.Robb
A.Shaw
J.Stewart
E.Timblick
A.W.Wilson
E.Wilson
J.A.E.Wilson
B.Wright
R.Youngblood.
Information and images courtesy Bruce Comfort, 2009 and 2014.
Find out more about the people listed on this memorial from Auckland Museum's Cenotaph database