John Duffy

Forenames

John AWMM

Surname

Duffy AWMM

Service number

WWI 65960 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

10 Aug 1896 Kiwi Jocks Research
Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire AWMM

Date of birth

09 August 1896

Public - Ngaire Mary - Other relative - 25 April 2016 - Photocopy of Births from Registrar General for Scotland's records.

Place of birth

Parish of Kirkcowan, County of
Wigtown, Scotland.

Public - Ngaire Mary - Other relative - 25 April 2016 - Photocopy of Births from Registrar General for Scotland's records.

Next of kin

Mrs Marion Duffy (mother), Grotto Street, Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

John Duffy uncle of my husband Ronald Harold George Duffy.

Public - Ngaire Mary - Other relative - 25 April 2016 - Family records.

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 65960 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 19 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Boilermaker/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 31 Dec 1917-25 Feb 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 99 AWMM Vessel was Athenic AWMM Private AWMM 33rd Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Regiment, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion AWMM

John Duffy was the son of Mrs. M. Duffy, of Church St., Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand.

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

Death

9 Oct 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Beaulencourt British Cemetery, Ligny-Thilloy, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM I. B. 26. AWMM

Memorial name

• Onehunga War Memorial Swimming Pool, Jellicoe Park (off Quadrant Road), Park Gardens, Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Onehunga Arch of Remembrance, Jellicoe Park (off Quadrant Road), Park Gardens, Onehunga, Auckland, 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/R20998984
  Further Reference
• Onehunga War Memorial and Book of Honour Index
  http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/CityArchives/FamilyHistory/OHB063/searchonehunga.htm
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/564594/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/564594
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  76: 14
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• 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.
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 99 - Te huia : the magazine of the 33rd Reinforcement. Printed and published by the Argus Printing Company for the Executive Committee of "Te Huia," 33rd Reinforcements, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1918.