Frank William Wiltshire

Forenames

Frank William AWMM

Surname

Wiltshire AWMM

Service number

WWI 12687 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

17 Mar 1894 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Wright AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12687 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Bank clerk/Civilian AWMM

Occupation before enlistment

Joined Bank of New Zealand on 29 December 1914 and serving at Auckland branch at time of enlistment.

Public - Paul - Researcher - 22 February 2015 - Bank of New Zealand Archives.

Embarkation details

WW1 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Sapper AWMM 12th Reinforcements New Zealand Signalling Corps AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Engineers AWMM

Death

10 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Place of death

Messiness, Belgium.

Public - Paul - Researcher - 22 February 2015 - Friends of in Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres.

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

La Plus Douve Farm Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium AWMM IV. E. 7. AWMM

Memorial name

Bank of New Zealand memorial plaque is now located in the bank's Harbour Quays premises in Wellingto

Public - Paul - Researcher - 22 February 2015 - Bank of New Zealand Museum, Wellington.

Memorial name

• Memorial plaque, Bank of New Zealand (Officers of the BNZ who laid down their lives in the Great War AD 1914-1919), BNZ Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Roll of Honour, College Rifles, Rugby Union Football & Sports Club, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM
• Pitt Street Methodist Church Roll of Honour, 78 Pitt Street, Auckland 1010 AWMM
• College Rifles Park, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22022175
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/444931/-
  Further Reference
• Surrey in the Great War, Egham, St John the Baptist Church Cross - memorial or cemetery record from Surrey in the Great War
  https://www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk/collections/getrecord/SHMEM_W_M_1570
  Further Reference
• Surrey in the Great War, La Plus Douve Farm Cemetery, Belgium - memorial or cemetery record from Surrey in the Great War
  https://www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk/collections/getrecord/SHMEM_W_M_4246
  Further Reference
• Surrey in the Great War, Frank William Wiltshire - biography from Surrey in the Great War:
  https://www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk/person/117302
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/444931
  Further Reference

References

• Bank of New Zealand officers who enlisted for military service in the First World War. Research completed by Paul Hickford (2014-2017).
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  31: 14
• 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
• HMNZT 52.The bugle call of the 12th NZ Reinforcements : being the souvenir number of The Mokoia chronicle.(1916). On board ship: Published on board H.M.N.Z. Transport no. 52 "S.S. Mokoia".
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.