Harold David Blake

Forenames

Harold David AWMM

Surname

Blake AWMM

Service number

WWI 26377 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

George Blake (father), Church Street, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 26377 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Carpenter/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 56 or HMNZT 57 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Sapper AWMM 14th Reinforcements, New Zealand Engineers AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, No. 5 Company AWMM

Son of Mrs. M. Blake, of St. Andrew's Road, Epsom, Auckland. (Note: The different addresses in this record are due to the different sources used to compile it.)

Next of Kin: Mrs M. Blake, Epsom, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

12 Oct 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Obituary

Private Harold D. Blake, killed in action in France on October 12, was the fifth son of Mrs. Blake, of Church Road, Epsom. He left with the fourteenth reinforcements, and was transferred to the machine-gun section on arrival in England. He was educated at the Epsom school, and up to the time of his enlistment was employed in the maintenance branch of the Railway Department. (Auckland Weekly News, 8 November 1917, p. 22) AWMM

Memorial name

• Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• 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
• Marivare Reserve, corner of Manukau and Ranfurly Roads, Epsom, Auckland AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22276680
  Further Reference
• Marivare Reserve Memorial Archway Index, Auckland Council Archives
  http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/CityArchives/FamilyHistory/AUC204/searchmarivare.htm
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/847290/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/847290
  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.
  34: 23
• Auckland Weekly News
  Obituary: Auckland Weekly News, 8 November 1917, p. 22.
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.