Samuel Clyde Mewhinney

Forenames

Samuel Clyde AWMM

Surname

Mewhinney AWMM

Also known as

Clyde Samuel Mawhinney AWMM

Service number

WWI 65229 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs M. Mewhinney (mother), Leith Valley, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 65229 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Coach builder/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 08 Feb 1918-29 Mar 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 100 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Private AWMM 34th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Regiment, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Samuel Mewhinney was the son of Margaret Mewhinney, of Leith Valley, Dunedin, New Zealand, and the late William Clyde Mewhinney. AWMM

Death

26 Oct 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-au-Bois, Nord, France AWMM I. E. 24. AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21374899
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/296393/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/296393
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  78: 15
• 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)
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 100. The link [1918]. Printed by W.H. Smith & Son: London. Magazine of troops on board H.M.N.Z.T. No. 100, 'Ulimaroa'.