1915

February 3

Canterbury Battalion sustains New Zealand’s first casualties of W.W.I at Suez Canal.

April 1

First regular supply of electricity from Lake Coleridge received in Christchurch.

April

Christchurch pilot, William B. Rhodes-Moorhouse, killed in action in Europe. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the first ever to be given to an airman.

May 9

Christchurch tennis star (4 times Wimbledon champion) Captain A. F. Wilding killed in action in Belgium.

May

First electric street lights in operation.

A view of Beach V, one of the initial landing points, Gallipoli [1915]

July 17

First Canterbury wounded from the war return to Lyttelton on the "Willochra".

December 20-21

Canterbury Battalion among the last to leave Gallipoli. The battalion suffered 385 dead during the campaign.

(no date)

Worker’s Educational Association (WEA) formed in City - the first in New Zealand.

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