Victor Manson Spencer

Forenames

Victor Manson AWMM

Surname

Spencer AWMM

Service number

WWI 8/2733 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1894 AWMM
Otautau, Southland, New Zealand AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre Apr 1915 AWMM Bluff, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs Goomes (aunt), Henderson Street, Bluff, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Aug 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 8/2733 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• ANZAC Commemorative Medallion AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Apr 1915 AWMM
Age  18 AWMM
Engineer/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Aug 1915-19 Sep 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 27 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM 6th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

• Court Martialled, Executed, Pardoned, Cause of Death AWMM
  Executed AWMM
• Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Death

24 Feb 1918 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

• Killed on Active Service AWMM
• Court Martialled, Executed, Pardoned AWMM

Cemetery

The Huts Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM XV.B. 10 AWMM

Memorial name

Bluff War Memorial AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7820264
  Further Reference
• Court Martial proceedings 1918
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22430429
  Further Reference
• Clark, H. (2005, August 31). World War One medal presentation ceremony, Parliament.
  http://medals.nzdf.mil.nz/news/articles/1999-2003/20053108speech.html
  Further Reference
• Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act 2000.
  http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2000/0029/latest/whole.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Government. Ministerial statement. Burton, M. (2005). World War One pardoned soldiers to be recognised with awards. Wellington, N.Z. beehive.govt.net
  http://beehive.govt.nz/release/world+war+one+pardoned+soldiers+be+recognised+awards
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/156802/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/156802
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Boyack, N. (1989). Behind the lines : the lives of New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. Wellington, N.Z.: Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 683
• War diary, 1917 - 1940. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2007-27.
• RSA review: the official journal of the N.Z. Returned Services' Association
  RSA Review September 2005, p10
• Pugsley, C. (1991). On the Fringe of Hell: New Zealanders and Military Discipline in the First World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Hodder & Stoughton.
  Pugsley, C. (1991). p. 350
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• The Magazine Of The Sixth Reinforcements NZEF : published at sea on 28th August & 11th September, 1915