Alfred Edward Innis

Forenames

Alfred Edward AWMM

Surname

Innis AWMM

Service number

WWI 38395 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

10 Jan 1894 Public Source

Date of birth

10 January 1894

Public - John - Other relative - 2 April 2016 - Family book called "Our Ancestors" IBSN 0-473-08561-5

Place of birth

Wharepoa, Thames-Coromandel District

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 October 2024 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158802807/alfred-edward-innis

Birth notes

Son of Arthur & Annie Maria INNIS

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 October 2024 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158802807/alfred-edward-innis

Next of kin

Arthur J. Innis (father), Wharepoa, Thames, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Feb 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 38395 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Feb 1917-02 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 76 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM 22nd Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Result of wounds AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 16th (Waikato) Company AWMM

Son of Arthur and Annie Maria Innis of Wharepoa, Thames, New Zealand.

Three brothers served in WW1: Ernest James Innis (62324) was killed in actin; Alfred Edward Innis (38395) died as a result of wounds; and Henry Innis (74273) survived.

Next of Kin: Mr A J. Innis, Baillie St, Thames (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

3 Aug 1921 AWMM
Age  27 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Omahu Cemetery (Thames Valley), 17 Wharepoa Road, Wharepoa, Thames-Coromandel District, New Zealand AWMM Plot 126 AWMM

Obituary

DEATH - On August 3 at his father's residence Wharepoa after a long illness (after wounds received at Messines) ; Alfred Edward INNIS, aged 27 years.
Funeral will leave hi late residence at 2 p.m. today for Wharepoa Cemetery

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 October 2024 - Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4300, 5 August 1921, Page 2

Memorial name

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

Related objects

External links

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18052012
  Further Reference
• Death notice: Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4300, 5 August 1921, Page 2
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OG19210805.2.8&srpos
  Sources Used
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643256/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643256
  Further Reference

References

• 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.
• Ohinemuri Gazette
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  55: 5
• Ohinemuri Gazette
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 76 - The moa : the journal of the Twenty Seconds on troopship "Aparima" (No. 76). Drew, H.T.B. (Henry Thomas Bertie), editor. Digby, H.W.L. (Henry William Lockyer), editor. -- At sea : Twenty-Second Reinforcements : [1917