Jonathan Oswald Porritt

Forenames

Jonathan Oswald AWMM

Surname

Porritt AWMM

Service number

WWI 35646 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Methodist, Christian AWMM

Birth

15 Mar 1878 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Julius Porritt (brother), Oratai, Waikumete, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 35646 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Bridge builder/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 02 Apr 1917-10 Jun 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 80 AWMM Vessel was Corinthic AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM 23rd Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

24 Dec 1917 AWMM Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Gunner/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

Son of William and Sarah Ann Porritt, of Mount Albert, Auckland

Next of Kin: Mr J. Porritt, Oratia. Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

24 Dec 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Divisional Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM L.2. AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland Railway Station, Te Taou Crescent, Auckland 1010. AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• 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/R20802106
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/93372/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/93372
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  57: 23
• 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.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• HMNZT 80. Tiki-talk / edited by A. Allen, S.D. Waters and J. Carmody ; artist, Gordon Calman. (1917). London: Printed and published by the Angus Printing Co. for the executive committee of Tiki-talk.