"The names of the two brothers are on Waipukurau's War Memorial and on the Waipukurau School's memorial gates.
"George was a prominent rugby player, and the Fox family was a large and well-known one, with descendants still living in Waipukurau and CHB."
Mr Reddiex, a family historian who along with his son Glenn - a World War I historian, author and collector of World War I postcards - researched information about the military careers of all four Fox brothers and provided it to the CHB Settlers Museum.
Along with George and Tom, Mr Reddiex said two other brothers from the Fox family, Ted and Bob, also served during World War I.
"Of the four, Tom and George were killed in action in France and Belgium.
"Ted served on the hospital ship, the Marama, while Bob was severely wounded at Gallipoli and invalided home to later take up a returned soldiers' farm in the Marakeke Settlement near Takapau," Mr Reddiex said.
Private George Douglas Fox enlisted with the Wellington Infantry of the NZ Expeditionary Force in February, 1915.
He sailed from Wellington on June 13, 1915, on Troopship No. 24, Maunganui, and disembarked at Suez on July 24, Mr Reddiex said.
"After just two weeks on foreign soil, George Fox was wounded in action with a gunshot wound to the chest at the Dardanelles on August 8.
"Less than three weeks later, his brother Bob, serving with the Mounted Rifles, was also wounded at the Dardanelles with gunshot wounds in both thighs, a fractured femur and a hand injury.
"As a result of their injuries, the brothers met for the last time, in a hospital in Cairo."
After spending several months in a NZ hospital in Cairo, Bob Fox was invalided home on the hospital ship Maheno.
In 1917 the returned serviceman and discharged soldier married Flora Jane Gore of Waipukurau and in a land ballot under the Government's soldier settlement scheme, acquired a section of farmland in the Marakeke Settlement near Takapau, which he occupied until his death in 1965.
Meanwhile, George Fox spent five months convalescing from his chest wound suffered at the Dardanelles.
In April 1916 he rejoined his battalion and left with the NZ Division for the war in France, where Mr Reddiex said he and his comrades endured "the horrors of the trenches: enemy shelling, snipers bullets, rats, flies, contaminated food, lice, the stench, infection, trench fever, mud and his comrades being injured or killed".
On September 16, 1916, George's younger brother Charles Thomas Fox died at the Battle of the Somme in France.
Killed in action the day before his 23rd birthday, he is buried at Gommecourt British Cemetery No. 2 in France.
Edward James "Ted" Fox, the eldest of the four brothers who served in World War I, was serving in the NZ Medical Corps on NZ Hospital Ship No. 2, Marama, in 1917 and 1918.
George Fox, after recovering from his chest wounds, then contracted mumps and was hospitalised for nearly three weeks, before he was again reunited with his battalion in the field on April 3, 1917.
Mr Reddiex said about this time the focus of the Allied forces was on the Messines Ridge in Belgium, where a major offensive to take the ridge was planned for early June.
"There is of course much to tell about the Battle of Messines itself - the horror, the bravery, the futility of war.
"One feature of the battle was the digging of tunnels under German enemy lines in the months preceding the battle, in which the allied soldiers planted an estimated 600 tonnes of explosives.
"When they were detonated simultaneously at 3.10am on June 7, 1917 - followed by a massive bombardment of the enemy lines - the blast was deafening; so loud that it was reportedly heard in London some 60 miles away."
Mr Reddiex said that early on June 7 the NZ Division captured its objective but the Germans regathered and hit the area with concentrated shelling.
"The New Zealanders suffered more casualties holding on to the ridge than during their advance," said Mr Reddiex.
On June 8, 1917, Private George Douglas Fox was reported killed in action at Messines. His body was never found.
"It is most likely he died from enemy bombardment," Mr Reddiex said.
George Fox was one of more than 800 soldiers of the NZ Expeditionary Force who died in or near Messines in 1917/1918 who have no known grave but are instead commemorated on the NZ Memorial to the Missing within the Messines Ridge British Cemetery.
George and his brother Tom are remembered on the Fox family memorial in the Waipukurau Cemetery with this inscription:
Rest well brave hearts
We softly say, ye who for us
Your lives laid down
The angels know your graves today
And weave for you the victor's crown