Lawrence Jamieson

Forenames

Lawrence AWMM

Surname

Jamieson AWMM

Also known as

Laurence AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/768 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

25 Jul 1888 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

L. Jamieson (brother), New Zealand Railways, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/768 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 8 or HMNZT 12 AWMM Vessel was Star of India or Waimana AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Warrant Officer Class 2 (Company Sergeant Major) AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Son of William and Anna Jamieson, of Collingwood, Nelson, New Zealand.

Rank last held was listed as Temporary Warrant Officer Class 2

Name spelled as Laurence on the Nominal Roll

Next of Kin: Mrs A Jamieson, Collingwood, Nelson (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

16 Nov 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM I. A. 4. AWMM

Memorial name

Remembered in Hall of Memories at Auckland War Memorial Museum

Public - Peter - Researcher - 27 April 2018 - on site

Memorial name

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/R18052951
  Further Reference
• Are you a relative of this soldier and want to keep his memory alive? With the ‘Wood of Peace’ project you can plant a tree in his name in 2017 near Polygon Wood, Belgium.
  http://passchendaele2017.org/en/evenementen/vredesbos-polygoonbos/
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/480303/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/480303
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/1833
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 364
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• 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.