Gerald Joseph Fitzgerald

Forenames

Gerald Joseph AWMM

Surname

Fitzgerald AWMM

Service number

WWI 17289 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

3 Jun 1893 Public Source

Date of birth

3rd June 1893

Public - Thomas - Other relative - 7 May 2020 - Family Papers

Next of kin

Mrs M. Fitzgerald (mother), Post-office, Blenheim, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 17289 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Telegraph cadet clerk/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 Driver/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

Death

30 Oct 1917 AWMM

Date of death

30th October 1917

Public - Thomas - Other relative - 7 May 2020 - Family Papers

Age at death

23

Public - Thomas - Other relative - 7 May 2020 - Family Papers

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM VI. A. 39. AWMM

Memorial name

• Marlborough War Memorial, 20 Seymour Street, Blenheim, 7201 AWMM
• Borough of Blenheim Roll of Honour, Marlborough Museum. 26 Arthur Baker Pl, Redwoodtown, Blenheim 7201 AWMM
• Marlborough Great War Memorial, WW1 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21003174
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/437458/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/437458
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• 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.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 22
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.