Francis William Luke

Forenames

Francis William AWMM

Surname

Luke AWMM

Also known as

Frank

Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - The name used by my father and his family etc.

Service number

WWI 3/55 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Primitive Methodist

Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - The religion of his mother, Jacobina Luke, and father.

Birth

22 Oct 1895 Public Source

Date of birth

22 October 1895

Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - Birth Certificate No. 462604 New Zealand

Place of birth

Wellington

Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - Birth Certificate

Address before enlistment

• Unknown AWMM Hiropi Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM

Post war occupation

Marine engineering, boiler making etc. at Luke Bros., Cable Street, Wellington

Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - Family papers

Next of kin

• J.P. Luke (father), Hiropi Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• J.P. Luke (father), care of Wellington City Council, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
• Pre 16 Feb 1917 AWMM Unknown Marital Status AWMM
• Single
  Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - Family papers

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 3/55 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Unknown AWMM Draughtsman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Private AWMM New Zealand Medical Corps AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 16 Feb 1917-02 May 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 76 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Sergeant AWMM 22nd Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Engineers AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

SuppNom: Ex Samoan Advance. AWMM

Death

24 May 1974 Public Source

Date of death

24 May 1974

Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - Death Certificate IM 832464

Place of death

Heathfield, Sussex, England

Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - Death Certificate

Cause of death

Cerebral Thrombosis

Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - Death Certificate

Cemetery name

Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand

Public - Marion - Child - 3 July 2016 - Family papers

Related objects

External links

Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10920987
Further Reference

References

• Carbery, A.R.D. (1924). The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War, 1914-1918 : based on official documents. Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 428
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  55: 25
• 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
• 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-
• HMNZT 76 - The moa : the journal of the Twenty Seconds on troopship "Aparima" (No. 76). Drew, H.T.B. (Henry Thomas Bertie), editor. Digby, H.W.L. (Henry William Lockyer), editor. -- At sea : Twenty-Second Reinforcements : [1917