Hugh Adair

Forenames

Hugh AWMM

Surname

Adair AWMM

Service number

WWI 11/959 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Place of birth

Ireland

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Birth notes

Son of Hugh and Mary Adair, of Spring Hill, Bangor, Co. Down, Ireland.

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Makauri, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Henry Adair (brother), care of William Adair, Nigir Senblian, Malay States AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 11/959 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 17 or HMNZT 18 or HMNZT 19 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima AWMM Trooper AWMM Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM 3rd Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Evacuated ill from Gallipoli to Malta, where he died of enteric fever AWMM
• Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
  Enteric fever AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Trooper AWMM
Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM

Son of Hugh and Mary Adair, of Spring Hill, Bangor, County Down, Ireland.

Next of Kin: Mr W. Adair, Selama, Perak F. M. S. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

3 Oct 1915 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Sickness AWMM

Cemetery

Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta AWMM B. XVII. 3. AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22311642
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/114802/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/114802
  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: 3
• Stowers, R. (2005). Bloody Gallipoli: the New Zealanders' story. Auckland, N.Z.: David Bateman.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.