Alfred Gilbert Godsmark

Forenames

Alfred Gilbert AWMM

Surname

Godsmark AWMM

Service number

WWI 40542 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

8 Sept 1883 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Pre 31 Oct 1916 AWMM 92 Grafton Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Post war occupation

Trader/Civilian AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs J.M. Barnes (sister), Arnside, West Morland, England AWMM

Relationship status

31 Oct 1916 AWMM Widowed/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 40542 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 14 Nov 1916 AWMM
Age  33 AWMM
Planter/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

• 30 Oct 1916 AWMM Weight, WWI AWMM
  9 stone 8 pounds AWMM
• 30 Oct 1916 AWMM Height, WWI AWMM
  5 foot 7 inches AWMM
• 30 Oct 1916 AWMM Eye colour, WWI AWMM
  Grey AWMM
• 30 Oct 1916 AWMM Hair colour, WWI AWMM
  Light AWMM
• 30 Oct 1916 AWMM Complexion, WWI AWMM
  Tan AWMM
• 21 Jul 1917 AWMM Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
  Wounded, gassed AWMM
• 16 May 1918 AWMM Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
  Invalided to NZ on the Athenic AWMM

Last rank

WW1 13 Jan 1918 AWMM
Medically unfit on account of wounds received in action AWMM
Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Husband of Ahome.

Resided in Niue for 8 and half years before the war.

Next of Kin: Mrs J. M. Barnes, Arnside, Westmoreland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

16 May 1930 AWMM
Age  47 AWMM

Cemetery

Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Soldiers Burial B Row 3, Plot 37 AWMM

Obituary

Death notice: New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20566, 17 May 1930, Page 1

In Memorium notice: New Zealand Herald, 16 May 1944 AWMM

Memorial name

• Alofi National Memorial, Niue 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/R16786839
  Further Reference
• Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 17 May 1930
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19300517.2.2.5
  Further Reference
• In Memorium notice: New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24894, 16 May 1944, Page 1
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19440516.2.5
  Further Reference
• Alofi National Memorial, Niue
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/alofi-national-memorial-niue
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  55: 5
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
• 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 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