Robert Vesey

Forenames

Robert AWMM

Surname

Vesey AWMM

Also known as

Robert Vesey AWMM

Service number

WWI 46810 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

5 Jan 1896 AWMM

Next of kin

Albert Beaumont (friend), 46 Stirling Street, Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 46810 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Moulder/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 05 Apr 1917-10 Jun 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 81 AWMM Vessel was Devon AWMM Private AWMM 24th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Regiment, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment AWMM

Death

13 Dec 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Polygon Wood Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM F. 17. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22020664
  Further Reference
• Are you a relative of this soldier and want to keep his memory alive? With the ‘Wood of Peace’ project you can plant a tree in his name in 2017 near Polygon Wood, Belgium.
  http://passchendaele2017.org/en/evenementen/vredesbos-polygoonbos/
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/480076/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/480076
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/4305
  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.
  59: 12
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• HMNZT 81 - Bulldogs' bark and Devon lyre : being the unofficial organ of the Right Wing, 24th Reinforcement. N.Z.E.F. Morgan, R.C. (Robert Carhampton), editor. Kiely, R.D. (Robert Dale), editor. -- Capetown : Printed by the Cape Times : 1917