Thomas Sutherland

Forenames

Thomas AWMM

Surname

Sutherland AWMM

Service number

• WWI 4/254 AWMM
• WWI 8/254A AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Railways, Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Frederick Sutherland, Riversdale, Southland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 15 Aug 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 4/254 AWMM
• WWI 8/254A AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM Railway Engineers AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
  HMNZT 5 or HMNZT 9 AWMM Vessel was Ruapehu or Hawkes Bay AWMM Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM 2nd Reinforcements AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM

Thomas Sutherland was the son of Frederick R. H. and Mary Sutherland, of Arthurton, Otago, New Zealand. Of Garston, Otago.

Serial Number is recorded as 4/254 in Nominal Rolls, as 8/254A in Archives New Zealand and CWGC. AWMM

Death

2 May 1915 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Quinn's Post Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey AWMM Special Memorial 64 AWMM

Memorial name

Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Smith, S.J. (1924). The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914-1915. Wellington: Ferguson & Osborn.
  http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Samo.html
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7823025
  Further Reference
• Otago Daily Times 29 March 1916
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19160329.2.8.7
  Further Reference

References

• Stowers, R. (2005). Bloody Gallipoli: the New Zealanders' story. Auckland, N.Z.: David Bateman.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 705
• Smith, S.J. (1924). The Samoa (N.Z.) Expeditionary Force 1914-1915. Wellington, N.Z.: Ferguson & Osborn.
  Smith, S.J. (1924). pp. 167, 214.
• 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. 2: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.