Alexander Glass
Born 18 Dec 1887 - Died 30 Jul 1955
- Service number
- WWI 13/64 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
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- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
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- Forenames
- Alexander AWMM
- Surname
- Glass AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
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- Service number
- WWI 13/64 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 18 Dec 1887 AWMM
- Date of birth
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- Place of birth
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- Birth notes
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- Address before enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Ohinewai, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- WW1 Mrs Glass, Waiuku, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 13/64 AWMM
- Military service
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Military decorations
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 8 or HMNZT 12 AWMM Vessel was Star of India or Waimana AWMM Trooper AWMM Auckland Mounted Rifles AWMM Main Body AWMM
Prisoner of war
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
Schrapnel wound left thigh AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- Corporal
(Multiple promotions to Temp Sergeant in combat following seniors' fatalities)Public - Simon - Other Relative - 26 April 2015 - Military Personnel File - Last rank
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Biographical information
- August 1914 - My Great Grandfather, Alexander Glass, enlisted with the Auckland Mounted Rifles along with 5 others from the town of Waiuku and embarked for training in Egypt. When plans were laid for the Turkish campaign, the Mounted Rifles left their horses behind and were redeployed as infantry and boarded a ship for the Turkish coast.
April 1915 - Along with many thousands of other brave men, they left their ships en masse in an attempt to secure the beach and surrounding hills of Gallipoli.
July 1915 - Suffers gunshot and shrapnel wounds, convalesces on a hospital ship before returning to duty, until the allied troops are evacuated from Gallipoli in December 1915.
Following the Gallipoli campaign, he rejoined his mount to fight on horseback in North Africa / Middle East where he serves under T.E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia), at one point writing home to simply say, "Today I rode with Lawrence".
Mid 1918 - He contracts malaria and spends the last few months of the war in hospital. Following war's end he remains in the military until his injuries from fighting and malaria necessitate a medical discharge in March 1919.
He serves in The Great War from beginning to end and returns home to restart his life. Remarkable though this part of his life was, the most amazing part of his story is that, unlike so, so many of his comrades, ALL FIVE of those young men that left Waiuku together in 1914 returned to their families.
On behalf of your daughter Dawn, your Granddaughter Gabrielle and her siblings, your Great Granddaughter Mellanie and our cousins, your Great Great Grandsons Felix and ...... Alexander and their cousins -
Thank you Alexander. Thank you to all who served.
Sincerely, your Great Grandson, Simon.Public - Simon - Other Relative - 26 April 2015 - Military Files and Family Records
About death
- Death
- 30 Jul 1955 AWMM
- Date of death
- 30th July 1955Public - Simon - Other Relative - 26 April 2015 - Military Personnel File
- Age at death
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- Place of death
- Huntly, New ZealandPublic - Simon - Other Relative - 26 April 2015 - Military Personnel File
- Cause of death
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Waiuku War Memorial Hall, Queen Street Waiuku 2123 AWMM
- Mercer First World War Memorial, corner of Roose Road and Riverbank Road, Mercer AWMM
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16786541
Further Reference - References
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Page No: 266 - 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. 5: Includes portrait - Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
- Nicol, C.G. (1921). The story of two campaigns: Official war history of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Wilson & Horton.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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