Henry Hammerell

Forenames

Henry AWMM

Surname

Hammerell AWMM

Service number

WWI 22458 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

3 Feb 1888 Military Personnel File

Birth notes

Son of the late Henry and Isabel Hammerell;

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Address before enlistment

c/- Mrs STUART, Domain Street, Devonport, Akld

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Next of kin

WW1 O.B. Krauso (friend), Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Pacific Islands AWMM

Relationship status

• Married/WWI AWMM
• Husband of Alice Rose Hammerell nee' Cocker of Tonga - she later remarried Taniela Tu’ipulotu (she was also known as Pamela Taibulotu, of Maofaga, Tongatabu, Tonga
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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 22458 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Baker/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 19 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 61 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM 16th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Henry Hammerell was the son of the late Henry and Isabel Hammerell; husband of Pamela Taibulotu, of Maofaga, Tongatabu, Tonga Island. Born in Samoa.

New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141.

Next of Kin: Mrs T. Taibulotu, Maofago, Tonga (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  27 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Obituary

Henry Hammerell was born in Samoa and was of Swedish descent. He was married to Alice Rose Cocker. He was killed at the battle of Messines on June 7, 1917. His wife remarried to Taniela Tu’ipulotu Kama of Maofaga. He is listed on the Tongan War Memorial.

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Memorial name

• Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16790834
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Kaniva Pacific
  http://nzkanivapacific.co.nz/2015/04/tongans-remember-volunteers-from-the-islands-who-served-in-first-world-war/
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737906/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737906
  Further Reference
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  https://archive.org/details/newzealandatfron00lond/newzealandatfron00lond
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  38: 8
• 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
• Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.