George Ackhurst

Forenames

George AWMM

Surname

Ackhurst AWMM

Service number

WWI 18207 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

2 Jun 1878 Military personnel file

Next of kin

Mrs Ackhurst (wife), 32 Church Street East, Palmerston North, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 23 Sep 1916 AWMM Married AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 18207 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Engineer/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 17th Reinforcements Signalling Section AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment AWMM

Husband of Eusebia Margaret Ackhurst, of 63, Collingwood St., Hamilton. AWMM

Death

4 Oct 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22268680
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Casualty form.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20180129035740/http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:12333
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/847201/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/847201
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/53
  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.
  41: 25
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.