Thomas Marwick Yorston

Forenames

Thomas Marwick AWMM

Surname

Yorston AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/3204 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Ohaupo, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

J.W. Yorston (brother), Railway Clerk, Ngahauranga, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/3204 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 09 Oct 1915-30 Nov 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 32 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Thomas Yorston was the brother of Mr. Hugh Yorston, of 80 Michael St., North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Next of Kin: Mr H. Yorston, Fitzroy, Melbourne (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

30 Sept 1916 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM XXV. C. 8. AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22023385
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/554271/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/554271
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 805
• Dry Rations, or, The Aparima Apparition : with which is incorporated the Waikanae wash-out and The Tauherenikau trumpeter : unofficial organ of the 7th Rfts, Transport No. 32
• 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.