Garfield Alexander Warin

Forenames

Garfield Alexander AWMM

Surname

Warin AWMM

Service number

WWI 31752 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Alexander Warin (father), Warkworth, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 15 Nov 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 31752 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 15 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 68 or HMNZT 69 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM 19th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, A Company AWMM

Garfield was the son of Alexander and Elizabeth Warin, of Warkworth, Auckland.

He is commemorated on the bell Codford given by James Gordon Finlay for the National War Memorial Carillon, Wellington. Garfield Warin and Kathleen Hollis are commemorated on the same bell.

Next of Kin: Mr A. Warin, Warkworth, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

4 Oct 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, Langemark-Poelkapelle, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM VI. B. 12. AWMM

Memorial name

• National War Memorial Carillon, 41 Buckle Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22015998
  Further Reference
• Ministry of Culture and Heritage. The National War Memorial, The Carillon, Hall of Memories, The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, National War Memorial Park, Wellington.
  http://www.mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/national-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture & Heritage. National War Memorial Carillon, Wellington, and booklet with inscriptions on the bells, a pdf document
  http://www.mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/national-war-memorial/carillon
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/161251/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/161251
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/9702
  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. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  45: 7
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.