Arthur Foster Mellor

Forenames

Arthur Foster AWMM

Surname

Mellor AWMM

Service number

WWI 10/1915 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

22 Apr 1883 Public Source

Date of birth

22nd April 1883

Public - Chantelle - Direct descendant - 17 June 2019 - Australian Birth Index 1788-1922

Place of birth

Tasmania

Public - Chantelle - Direct descendant - 17 June 2019 - Australian Birth Index 1788-1922

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 3 Lombard Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

• Thomas Mellor (father), Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Eliza Paver Mellor (mother)
  Siblings:
  Kate Eliza Mellor
  Florence Susanna Mellor
  Agnes Ethel Mellor
  Thomas Warrington Mellor
  Alice Ada Mellor
  Clement Paver Mellor (killed on the same day in Gallipoli)
  Public - Chantelle - Direct descendant - 17 June 2019 - Australian Birth Index

Relationship status

Pre 17 Apr 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 10/1915 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 17 Apr 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 21 or HMNZT 22 or HMNZT 23 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo AWMM Private AWMM Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM 4th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM

Son of Thomas and Eliza Mellor, of Kamo, Whangarei, Auckland. Native of Tasmania

Next of Kin: Mr T. Mellor, Rust Lane, Whangarei (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

8 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  30 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21374546
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/680212/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/680212
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 498
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.