James McKenzie Boyle

Forenames

James McKenzie AWMM

Surname

Boyle AWMM

Service number

24331 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

New South Wales, Australia AWMM

Date of birth

27 Jun 1880

Public - Verna - Other relative - 22 February 2022 - Queensland Australia historical BDM

Place of birth

Queensland Australia

Public - Verna - Other relative - 22 February 2022 - Queensland Australia Historical BDM

Birth notes

Registration details 1880/C/39
found in the historical records

Public - Verna - Other relative - 22 February 2022 - Queensland historical BDM

Address before enlistment

New Zealand

Public - Verna - Other relative - 22 February 2022 - electoral roll

Next of kin

Mrs Frances Boyle (wife), 53 Wellington Road, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 23 Sep 1916 AWMM Married AWMM

War

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

24331 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Military Medal (MM) AWMM
  MM. London Gazette, 16 August 1917, p8429, Rec No 774: During the attack on the Messines Ridge on the 7th June 1917, seeing some of the enemy in a trench to the right of the position of his company occupied, he rushed into the trench as they refused to surrender he cleared the trench with his bayonet. Later when both his platoon Officer and Sergeant were wounded he assumed command and by his gallant conduct under heavy shellfire set a fine example of cheerfulness to his men. AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Electrician/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Sergeant AWMM 17th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 10th (North Otago) Company AWMM

Son of James and Mary Stuart Boyle. Husband of Frances nee Coley.

His son Neil Colin Boyle (903054) served with the RAF in WW2 and died of injuries. AWMM

Death

12 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  34 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22278147
  Further Reference
• Corporal J.M. Boyle. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXXXII, Issue 3661, 6 July 1917, Page 2
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AMBPA19170706.2.14.3&srpos
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/847308/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/847308
  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.
  41: 14
• Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.