Maxwell Christie

Forenames

Maxwell AWMM

Surname

Christie AWMM

Service number

WWI 53653 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

10 Feb 1897 Kiwi Jocks Research
94 Albert St, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire AWMM

Next of kin

M. Christie (father), care of Mrs McLelland, Arney Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 53653 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Plumber AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 24 Jul 1917-25 Sep 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 89 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata AWMM Private AWMM 28th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Attended Auckland Grammar School.

Next of Kin: Mr M. Christie, Onehunga, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

27 Mar 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France AWMM III.B.2. AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Second Term, 1918. AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland Grammar School War Memorial, New Zealand AWMM
• 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/R21894081
  Further Reference
• The New Zealand Heritage List. War Memorial, Auckland Grammar School, Mountain Road, Epsom, Auckland.
  http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/4472
  Further Reference
• World War I Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. Auckland Council. Retrieved October 2017.
  https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/about-auckland-council/how-auckland-council-works/local-boards/all-local-boards/orakei-local-board/Documents/world-war-roll-honour.pdf
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/524577/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/524577
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Included in the World War I Digital Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. The Ōrākei Local Board commissioned a World War I roll of honour for its area to commemorate the war’s centenary. The board welcomes additional information from the public on this project.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  69: 4
• Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland Grammar School.
  Auckland Grammar School chronicle. 1918, Second term. p.22.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Kiwi Jocks or Scottish-born New Zealand soldiers in the NZEF. Information kindly provided by Andrew Nixon, Scotland between 2009 and 2010.
• 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.
• HMNZT 89 - 1NZEF: 28th Reinforcements. (1917). Te kiwi: 28th Reinf. Cape Times Ltd