John Currie Hendry

Forenames

John Currie AWMM

Surname

Hendry AWMM

Service number

• WWI 8/3127 AWMM
• WWI 1/381 AWMM
• WWI 8/3127A AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 186 Hill Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 John Hendry (father), Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 8/3127 AWMM
• WWI 1/381 AWMM
• WWI 8/3127A AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Civil servant/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Sergeant AWMM 5th (Wellington) Regiment, B Company AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 32 or HMNZT 33 or HMNZT 34 AWMM Vessel was Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo AWMM Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant/Military AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Son of John and Alice Hendry, of Gordon Rd., Mosgiel, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Promoted to Sergeant 3 October 1915. Rank on grave is incorrect. Source: Military Personnel File.

Nominal Roll lists his service number as 8/3127. While his Military Personnel file lists his service numbers as 8/3127a and 1/381. AWMM

Death

15 Sept 1916 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM XIV. C. 5. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military Personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16794363
  Sources Used
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/553221/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/553221
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  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: 323
• Information kindly provided by family
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• 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-