Every name in its place
The Anzacs Roll Call
Every New Zealander of the First World War in the Online Cenotaph, filed under regiment and then battalion or group. Turn campaigns, killed, and Short counted on or off to isolate a found set, with live totals by regiment. Open a roll, sort any column, and click a name for his war record. Turn on Grave location for each man’s cemetery and plot, or pick a cemetery to list everyone resting there. For Gallipoli voyage proof, ships and dates, see the ship audit (also under The Anzacs Roll Call in the menu).
Gallipoli numbers, and why the ship audit matters
The Anzacs Roll Call’s Gallipoli campaign census is 22,479 men. That is everyone on this roll tagged for the Gallipoli campaign from Cenotaph evidence. The published New Zealand estimate of who actually landed on the peninsula is about 16,000 to 18,000 (Crawford & Buck). The gap of roughly 4,500 to 6,500 is the pipeline: men who embarked for Gallipoli but did not land.
Without a voyage-level ship audit you cannot securely separate those pipeline travellers from the men who reached the peninsula. Families need cited proof of who went, and how they went.
Why we audit ships. The audit authenticates troops per voyage: how many ships, the ship names, and the dates of travel. That is the unit of proof for embarkation, not a landing certificate for each man.
How it is proven and cited. We cross-check three cited lines of evidence: official troopship and draft lists (HMNZT numbers, ship names, sailing dates); Online Cenotaph per-man embarkations; and contemporary New Zealand newspaper schedules and stories of ship and troop movement. Links and method notes stay on this site: Ship audit, Sources, and the audit trail (including the October 2026 DVA portal correction).
Dual-source check. 23,053 men have a proven Gallipoli-pipeline embarkation: a named ship, a voyage date, and a matching man. That figure is travel proof. It is not a per-man landing certificate, and it is not the same thing as the 16,000 to 18,000 peninsula landing estimate.
Open the Gallipoli ship audit to see voyages, ship names, and the dual-source counts.
Sources and how we file them
Names, ranks, units, ships and embarkation dates come from Auckland Museum’s Online Cenotaph, licensed CC BY 4.0. We do not invent units. Where the embarkation unit string names a regiment, we file him there. Where it names only a company, battalion or reinforcement draft, we keep that label. Empty or unparseable units sit in Unallocated, so nobody is missing from the count.
Campaign toggles are derived from the same records (embarkation date, unit arm, fate, death date) plus resting-place cemetery names where we have them. A soldier may belong to more than one campaign (for example Gallipoli then the Western Front). See docs/roll-call.md for the mapping. We do not invent campaign tags without that data basis.
Killed in war means fate is Killed in action, Died of wounds, or Died of illness, or a death date is recorded. Turn that toggle off to hide those men from the found set.
Rank insignia are compact glyphs for the table, not official dress drawings. Sort by the Rank column still uses the written rank from the record.
SQN is a proven squadron from the embarkation unit (or ADFA when Cenotaph is blank). Source chips on the roll: Cenotaph / ADFA. We do not invent Main Body territorial squadrons. Full notes: Sources.
Ships to the war are the embarkation vessel and voyage when Cenotaph records them. Return ships appear on the soldier’s own war record when that record has them. The Audit column ticks green when that ship name matches the official troopship register; blank or a muted dash means no match or no ship on record. See the ship audit.
Short counted isolates men with no troopship recorded on this roll (Cenotaph has no HMNZT for them). That can mean several things; we are not saying why. Campaign and killed filters still apply inside that set.
Project corrections and the DVA Gallipoli figure win: Audit trail.