Forenames

Walter AWMM

Surname

Findlay AWMM

Service number

WWI 4/343 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

17th April 1891

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Place of birth

Wingatui, Dunedin

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Birth notes

Son of Robert and Margaret Findlay. of Church St., Mosgiel, Dunedin.

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 287 The Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

R. Findlay, Church Street, Mosgiel, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 4/343 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 3 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Sapper AWMM New Zealand Field Engineers AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Engineers AWMM

Son of Robert and Margaret Findlay. of Church St., Mosgiel, Dunedin. AWMM

Death

27 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

Hill 60 (New Zealand) Memorial, Hill 60 Cemetery, Turkey AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21002818
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-412288.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1739230/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1739230
  Further Reference

References

• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 229
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.
• HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-