Herbert Sefton Akersten

Forenames

Herbert Sefton AWMM

Surname

Akersten AWMM

Also known as

Akersten AWMM

Service number

WWI 18741 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

22 May 1884 AWMM

Place of birth

Nelson

Public - Jenifer - Researcher - 12 December 2018 - Military File

Next of kin

Mrs Mary Akersten (wife), 84 Federal Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 26 Jul 1916 AWMM Married AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 18741 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Carter/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jul 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 59 or HMNZT 60 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata or Ulimaroa AWMM Private AWMM 15th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

• Son of James and Catherine Akersten, of Nelson, New Zealand; husband of Mary A. Akersten, of 17, Grosvenor St., Grey Lynn, Auckland. AWMM
• Remembered at his birth place of Nelson - on the World War 1 'Wall of Remembrance' - at Founders Park, Nelson City - and also on the ANZAC Park War Memorial - at ANZAC Park, Nelson City.
  Public - Jenifer - Researcher - 12 December 2018 - Nelson Wall of Remembrance Researcher.

Death

8 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  33 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM III. C. 188 AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Nelson Cenotaph, Anzac Park, Nelson
  Public - Peter - Researcher - 30 October 2018 - on site

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22269731
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/198122/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/198122
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  37: 4
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.