Francis Alphonsus Brogan

Forenames

Francis Alphonsus AWMM

Surname

Brogan AWMM

Also known as

Francis Brogan AWMM

Service number

WWI 24/1602 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Catholic, Christian AWMM

Birth

1896 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 R. Calvert (friend), Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Battle of Broodseinde AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 24/1602 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 08 Jan 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 38 or HMNZT 39 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Warrimoo AWMM Rifleman AWMM 3rd Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, F Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  GSW abdomen AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Death

8 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM XX. I. 5A. AWMM

Memorial name

• Wellsford War Memorial, Wellsford, New Zealand AWMM
• Wellsford War Memorial Library, Wellsford, New Zealand AWMM
• Roll of Honour, Wellsford War Memorial Library, WW1 & WW2, Wellsford, New Zealand AWMM
• Roll of Honour, Wellsford RSA, 1 Olympus Road, Wellsford AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22279294
  Further Reference
• Ministry of Culture & Heritage Wellsford War Memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/wellsford-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Albertland & Districts Museum, Memorial Park, Wellsford, New Zealand
  http://www.albertland.co.nz/
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/433087/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/433087
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  16: 7
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• 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.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.