David Athfield

Forenames

David AWMM

Surname

Athfield AWMM

Service number

WWI 17262 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

J.L. Athfield (father), 29 Reid Road, South Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 17262 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Mill hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM 17th Reinforcements New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Gunner/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

David Athfield was the son of J. L. and A. F. Athfield, of Macandrew Rd., Port Chalmers, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

• 3 Jun 1917 AWMM
  Age  27 AWMM
• 3 Jun 1917 Allan Steel Cemetery Project
  Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

• Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM III. B. 223. AWMM
• Port Chalmers General Cemetery, Dunedin City Council AWMM Block SB, Plot 112 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22271433
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/198212/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/198212
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• This record was partially compiled from data kindly provided by Allan Steel Cemetery Project (2020)
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 22
• 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
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.