Mark Vincent

Forenames

Mark AWMM

Surname

Vincent AWMM

Also known as

Mark Vincent AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/271 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

5 Apr 1889 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM 157 Grafton Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 William Vincent (father), Ngaruawahia, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/271 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 8 or HMNZT 12 AWMM Vessel was Star of India or Waimana AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded at Gallipoli AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Engineers, Divisional Signals Company AWMM

Son of Mr and Mrs William Vincent, of Ohangai, Hawera.

Next of Kin: Mr W. Vincent, Ohangai, Hawera (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

4 Oct 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM XXIX.G.21. AWMM

Obituary

Private Mark Vincent, killed in action, was the youngest son of Mr. W. Vincent, of Ngaruawahia. He left with the Main Body, and had been on active service ever since. He was in the landing at Gallipoli, and was wounded some months later. He left with the first troops for France. He was in the New Zealand Divisional Signalling Company of the 3rd, Auckland, Company. He was well-known in football circles. (Auckland Weekly News, 29 November 1917, p. 20) AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Ngaruawahia Town School - Roll of Honour 1914-1920
  Public - Elli - Researcher - 9 August 2020 - Book: 'Ngaruawahia Primary, 125, 1869-1994' (History of Ngaruawahia Primary School, p28; published 1994)

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22020794
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/464993/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/464993
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/4313
  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. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 745
• Auckland Weekly News
  Obituary: Auckland Weekly News, 29 November 1917, p. 20.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.