Adam Black Douglas Wilson

Forenames

Adam Black Douglas AWMM

Surname

Wilson AWMM

Service number

WWI 34767 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Birth

13 Oct 1889 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra

Next of kin

Mrs E. West (sister), Airedale, Ardgowan, Oamaru, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 34767 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Fireman/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 21 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 74 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Private AWMM 21st Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
• Height, WWI AWMM
  5' 4" AWMM
• Weight, WWI AWMM
  130 lb AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment AWMM

Brother of Andrew Wilson of Shag Point, Otago

Embarked Wellington, 19 January 1917; disembarked Devonport, England, 27 March 1917, and marched in to Sling Camp.
Proceeded overseas to France, 26 May 1917; rejoined 2nd Bn, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, in the field, 19 June 1917.
Killed in action, 6 August 1917.

Brother: Andrew Wilson, Shag Point, Otago AWMM

Death

6 Aug 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22020379
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1738424/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1738424
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/4536
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  52: 13
• NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• HMNZT 74. Our ark : full of the funniest things you ever saw : the XXIst. [1917]. Capetown: Cape Times.