James Valentine Neary

Forenames

James Valentine AWMM

Surname

Neary AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/1749 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Care of J. Kavanagh, Renakura, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

James Neary, Porangahau, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/1749 AWMM

Military service

5th Light Railway Company AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 17 or HMNZT 18 or HMNZT 19 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM 3rd Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

12 Oct 1918 {Age 26} AWMM Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
New Zealand Engineers. Light Railway Operating Squadron AWMM

James Neary was the son of James and Martha Neary, Kamo, Whangarei, New Zealand

Next of Kin: c/o Mrs Bloomfield, Hukerenui, B of Isls (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

12 Oct 1918 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM XV.D.2 AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21379552
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/137210/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/137210
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  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: 533
• NZWGT: Information supplied by the New Zealand War Graves Trust as part of the New Zealand War Graves project. This project was established in 2006 to record in text and photographs the 31,758 New Zealanders who have been identifed as serving with New Zealand or Allied forces, and who died in conflicts from the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) up to the present day and in peacekeeping operations.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.