Gordon Hart Whyte

Forenames

Gordon Hart AWMM

Surname

Whyte AWMM

Service number

• 9024 AWMM
• 11/644 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

25 Dec 1880 AWMM

Address before enlistment

• Pre 09 Apr 1902 AWMM Seacombs Road, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Pre 16 Sep 1915 AWMM Castlebar, Khyber Pass Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

• Mrs Jane J. Whyte (mother), Waihau, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Jane J. Whyte (mother),Castlebar, Khyber Pass Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

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

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• 9024 AWMM
• 11/644 AWMM

Military service

College Rifles, Auckland AWMM

Enlistment

• South Africa 09 Apr 1902 AWMM
  Age  21 AWMM
  Stationhand/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 16 Sep 1915 AWMM
  Age  33 AWMM
  Commercial traveller/Civilian AWMM
• Unit: NZEF, New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, Wellington Mounted Rifles, 9 (East Coast) Squadron
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 June 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/gordon-hart-whyte

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 6 AWMM Vessel was Orari AWMM Trooper AWMM 10th Contingent AWMM 10th Contingent AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

• Pre WW1 1902 AWMM
  Expiration of term of service AWMM
  Private AWMM
  New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 10th Contingent, North Island Regiment AWMM
• WW1 Sergeant AWMM
  Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM

Son of James and Jane Johnstone Whyte, of Hunter St., Hamilton.

Member of the College Rifles Rugby Football Club

Father was named James Whyte.

Next of Kin: Mrs J. Whyte, Hamilton, Waikato (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

30 May 1915 AWMM
Age  35 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Obituary

TROOPER G. H. WHYTE.' A cablegram has been received by Mrs. J. G. Whyte, Castlebar, Symonds Street, stating that her third son, Trooper Gordon H. Whyte, of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, has been killed in action. The message was .sent by another son, Trooper Blair Whyte, who is now in Cairo recovering from an operation for appendicitis, and it is presumed that he was advised by his brother, Major J. H. Whyte, N.Z.S.C., second in command of the reglment. Trooper Gordon Whyte was born in Auckland, and was about 34 years of age. Prior to the war he was engaged as a Traveller for the firm of T. and S. Morrin, Limited

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 June 2023 - MEN WHO HAVE FALLEN.
NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LII, ISSUE 15945, 16 JUNE 1915, PAGE 9

Memorial name

• Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey AWMM
• Roll of Honour, College Rifles, Rugby Union Football & Sports Club, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• College Rifles Park, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  http://www.cwgc.org
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20524226
  Further Reference

References

• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 776
• 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.
• HMNZT 6. Orari tatler : a souvenir of the voyage of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from Wellington to Alexandria, Oct. 16th-Dec. 3rd, 1914. (1915). [Cairo, Egypt]: Whitehead, Morris and Co. (Egypt) Ltd.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.