Henry Earl Huston

Forenames

Henry Earl AWMM

Surname

Huston AWMM

Service number

WWI 1/272 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

• Unknown AWMM 110 Hill Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM

Next of kin

• Thomas C. Huston, Carlton Avenue, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM
• Thomas Clark Huston (father), 22 Stewart Street, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
• Pre 07 Dec 1916 AWMM Unknown Marital Status AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Samoa AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 1/272 AWMM

Military service

New Zealand Entrenching Battalion AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Private AWMM 5th (Wellington) Regiment AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 07 Dec 1916-18 Feb 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 71 AWMM Vessel was Port Lyttelton AWMM Sergeant AWMM 11th Reinforcements, 4th Battalion, H Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 6th (Hauraki) Company AWMM

Henry Huston was the son of Thomas and Mary Huston, of 1 Ligar St., Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. Native of Oamaru. Also served at Samoa.

SuppNom: Ex Samoan Advance.

Next of Kin: Mr T. C. Huston, N. Z. R. Taihape (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

7 May 1918 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

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

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18051444
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737381/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737381
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• 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 Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 353
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  47: 11
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• 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-