Maxwell Stewart Bain

Forenames

Maxwell Stewart AWMM

Surname

Bain AWMM

Service number

• 9370 AWMM
• 7/600 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Birth

6 Aug 1879 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 8 Riccarton Road, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Kenneth Burns Bain (father), 8 Riccarton Road, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• 9370 AWMM
• 7/600 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 4 or HMNZT 11 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Athenic AWMM Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
• Height, WWI AWMM
  5' 11" AWMM
• Weight, WWI AWMM
  172 lb AWMM

Last rank

Trooper AWMM
Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM

Maxwell Bain was the son of Kenneth Burns Bain and Mary Ann (aka Marian) Bain, of Eskvale, Amberley, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Arrived Anzac, Gallipoli, on command to NZ Army Corps, 9 August 1915.
Reported missing, 21 August 1915; now, 29 August 1915, reported killed in action, 25 August 1915.

Parents: Kenneth Burns Bain and Marian Bain, Eskvale, Amberley, Christchurch

Father was named Kenneth Burns Bain.

Attended Waitaki Boys' High School, Oamaru. AWMM

Death

25 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  40 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Hill 60 Cemetery, Turkey AWMM Special Memorial 2. AWMM

Memorial name

Waitaki Boys' High School Roll of Honour WWI 1914-1918 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  http://www.cwgc.org
  Sources Used
• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20518444
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
  Further Reference
• SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
  https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=3717
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 28
• NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
• Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• McDonald, K. C. (1958). A history of Waitaki Boys’ High School, 1883-1958. Christchurch [N.Z.] : Whitcombe and Tombs.