Thomas Bags Dyke

Forenames

Thomas Bags AWMM

Surname

Dyke AWMM

Service number

WWI 12557 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs E. Dyke (mother), 30 Walter Street, Mornington, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12557 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Sergeant AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Trooper AWMM
Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dyke, of Patearoa AWMM

Death

14 Nov 1917 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel AWMM B. 60. AWMM

Memorial name

Patearoa War Memorial

Public - Amanda - Researcher - 28 April 2015 - Patearoa memorial', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/patearoa-memorial, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 15-Jul-2013

Memorial name

Ayun Kara Memorial (destroyed), Palestine AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Powles, C.G. (1922). The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe and Tombs. Digitised copy on NZETC site.
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Sina.html
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20999704
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Mounted Rifles website. Ayun Kara.
  http://www.nzmr.org/ayunkara.htm
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/652288/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/652288
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference

References

• HMNZT 52.The bugle call of the 12th NZ Reinforcements : being the souvenir number of The Mokoia chronicle.(1916). On board ship: Published on board H.M.N.Z. Transport no. 52 "S.S. Mokoia".
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  31: 1
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  Ayun Kara Memorial (since destroyed) erected at the site of the original burials to remember those who died 14 November 1917. (1922), p. 264
• 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