Martin Anderson

Forenames

Martin AWMM

Surname

Anderson AWMM

Service number

WWI 14548 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs John Anderson (mother), Mauriceville West, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 14548 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jun 1916-22 Aug 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 56 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 14th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Martin Anderson was the son of Mrs. John Anderson, of Mauriceville West, Wellington, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

4 Oct 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM XXX. C. 20. AWMM

Memorial name

• Memorial gates, Greytown Soldiers Memorial Park, Kuratawhiti Street, Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial trees, 117 lime trees, Avenue of Remembrance, Greytown Soldiers Memorial Park, Kuratawhiti Street, Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22270218
  Further Reference
• Greytown Memorial Park
  http://www.greytown.co.nz/thingstodo/park.html
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Greytown war memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/greytown-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/461741/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/461741
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• HMNZT 56 - The kit-bag : the unofficial record of the following units of the Fourteenth Reinforcements on board the "Maunganui", Troopship 56 -- Cape Town : Printed by Cape Times : 1916.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  34: 6
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.