Cyril Douglas Gabites
Born 12 Jul 1888 - Died 3 Dec 1917
- Service number
- WWI 8/1988 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Lieutenant/Military AWMM Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Cyril Douglas AWMM
- Surname
- Gabites AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
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- Service number
- WWI 8/1988 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 12 Jul 1888 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 Care of Butterworth Bros., Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- WW1 R. Gabites (father), Broad Bay, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 13 Jun 1915 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 8/1988 AWMM
- Military service
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 13 Jun 1915-24 Jul 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 24 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Sergeant AWMM Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM
Prisoner of war
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Lieutenant/Military AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Cyril Gabites was the son of Robert and Mary Emma Gabites, of 20 Kipling Avenue, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand. Native of Oamaru, Otago.
Joined Bn at Anzac, Gallipoli, 9 August 1915, and posted to 8th Company, and reverted to the ranks.
Promoted Sergeant, 12 August 1915.
Admitted to 6th Casualty Clearing Station, 12 August 1915 (dysentery); transferred by HS 'Neuralia' to Egypt, 12 August 1915, and admitted to 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, 16 August 1915; rejoined unit, Rest Camp, Lemnos, 16 September 1915.
Admitted to 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital, Mudros, 6 October 1915 (enteritis); discharged to duty, and rejoined unit, Lemnos, 27 October 1915.
Disembarked Alexandria, 27 December 1915 (general Gallipoli evacuation).
Embarked Egypt for France, 6 April 1916.
Promoted 2nd Lieutenant, in the field, 26 August 1916.
Posted to 1st Bn, Otago Infantry Regiment, 31 August 1916.
On leave to United Kingdom, 9-24 October 1916.
Admitted to No 1 NZ Field Ambulance, 17 March 1917, and transferred to 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station; to North Midlands Casualty Clearing Station, 17 March 1917; discharged to duty, 26 March 1917.
Promoted Lieutenant, 15 March 1917.
Admitted to No 3 NZ Field Ambulance, 26 June 1917 (debilty), and transferred to Officer's Rest Home; rejoined Bn, in the field, 30 June 1917.
Detached to Corps School, 4 August 1917; rejoined Bn, in the field, 25 August 1917.
On leave to United Kingdom, 8 September 1917; rejoined Bn from leave, 21 September 1917.
Attached to Reinforcements Camp, 30 September 1917; rejoined Bn, in the field, 27 October 1917.
Appointed to temporarily command 14th Company, 4 November 1917; relinquished temporary command, 10 November 1917.
Seconded for duty to 2nd NZ Light Trench Mortar Battery, 20 November 1917.
Killed in action, 3 December 1917.
Next of Kin: Mr R. Gabites, Kipling Ave, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM
About death
- Death
- 3 Dec 1917 AWMM
Age 29 AWMM - Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Death notes
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- Cemetery
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- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Buttes New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16784518
Further Reference - Other military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7879994
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737328/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737328
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- 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: 251 - 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. 1: Includes portrait - Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
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