Henry Francis Edgecumbe

Forenames

Henry Francis AWMM

Surname

Edgecumbe AWMM

Service number

WWI 27691 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

5 Feb 1876 Provisional List 1918

Next of kin

Mrs Louise Margaret Note Edgecumbe (wife), Te Awamutu, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 19 Jan 1917 AWMM Married AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 27691 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Government surveyor/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 21 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 74 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Lieutenant/Military AWMM 21st Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Influenza and fever AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lieutenant/Military AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Next of Kin: Mrs L. N. Edgecumbe, Hamilton (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

15 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  42 AWMM

Cause of death

• Died of Disease AWMM
• Influenza Epidemic
  Public - Anon - Researcher - 3 November 2017 - Council Records

Cemetery

Te Awamutu Cemetery, Te Awamutu, Waipa District, New Zealand AWMM

Grave reference

Block IV, Row 3, Plot 89

Public - Anon - Researcher - 3 November 2017 - Council Records

Memorial name

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/R21000109
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7879912
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643307/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643307
  Further Reference
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
  http://web.archive.org/web/20220331095731/https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Documents/Provisional-list-NZ-victims-of-1918-Flu-Pandemic-Ancestry.pdf
  Sources Used

References

• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  52: 7
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
• HMNZT 74. Our ark : full of the funniest things you ever saw : the XXIst. [1917]. Capetown: Cape Times.