New Zealand - New Zealand Forces - World War 1 - Percy John Mourant, Orini, Waikato, 4th Reinforcements, 1917 - Military# 2/1915 - Personal photos taken by Corporal Mourant while on active service, little information provided with each photo due to censorship - The trip home images of the voyage back to New Zealand - Wellington kids greet us - Original Photo - Image #332991 - Mourant Family Background Notes: Herbert Percy Mourant was born in New Zealand in 1881 at Nelson, died 1972. Worked at the Bank of New South Wales for over 20 years in various roles and throughout New Zealand. In 1919 he set up and established the New Zealand Bank Officier's Guild, published a book in 1947 recording the guild... "The first twenty years of the Guild 1919 -1939." - Herbert married Mabel Constance Seagar who attended Victoria University in Wellington from 1900 - 1906 - Original family came to New Zealand in the 1870's from Jersey and Guernsey, settled West Coast, Picton and Nelson. - Family name connections Tourgis, Mourant and Seagar - Herbert was a keen photographer at the turn of the century and had his own photographs turned into post cards a service that was available in New Zealand from around 1905, a popular means of sending friends a photo around the world.