James Laurie

Forenames

James AWMM

Surname

Laurie AWMM

Service number

WWI 8/3311 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

27 Oct 1884 Kiwi Jocks Research
Watergate, Cleish, Fife AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Huddart, Parker, and Co., Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

E. Pearson (cousin), 23 Hill Street, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 13 Nov 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Battle of Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 8/3311 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 13 Nov 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 35 or HMNZT 36 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Private AWMM Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM 8th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment AWMM

Next of Kin: Mr J. Laurie, Inverkeithing, Fife (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

24 Mar 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

St. Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, W.Vlaaderen, Belgium. AWMM II.C.2. AWMM

Memorial name

• Newmarket War Memorial, Olympic Park, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• The Borough of Newmarket War Memorial, Auckland Council Archives 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/R10929181
  Further Reference
• Newmarket Roll of Honour World War I Index, Auckland Council Archives
  http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/CityArchives/FamilyHistory/NMB008/searchnewmarket.htm
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/444356/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/444356
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 407
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Kiwi Jocks or Scottish-born New Zealand soldiers in the NZEF. Information kindly provided by Andrew Nixon, Scotland between 2009 and 2010.
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.