James Lee

Forenames

James AWMM

Surname

Lee AWMM

Service number

WWI 64646 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1887 AWMM

Next of kin

Miss M. Lee (sister), Hinemoa, Albert Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 64646 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Telegraph Linesman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 21 Nov 1917-07 Jan 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 96 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM 32nd Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Son of the Emerson and Jane Lee, of Kawakawa, Bay of Islands.

Brothers James Lee (64646) and Thomas Lee (24022) were killed in WW1

Next of Kin: Mr J. Lee Kawakawa Bay of Islands (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

30 Sept 1918 AWMM
Age  31 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, Nord, France AWMM IV. G. 19 AWMM

Memorial name

• Kawakawa RSA, Roll of Honour AWMM
• Kawakawa Memorial Library, now Kawakawa Museum AWMM
• Kawakawa Memorial Library, now Kawakawa Museum, Roll of Honour WW1 AWMM
• Kawakawa Memorial Library, now Kawakawa Museum, Memorial Plaque WW1 AWMM
• Kawakawa District War Memorial, Kawakawa and Districts War Memorial Domain AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• 29 Albert Street, Kawakawa, Bay of Islands AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10918690
  Further Reference
• Kawakawa Memorial Library Centre, Wynard Street, Kawakawa, Northland, New Zealand
  http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3128
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/239678/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/239678
  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. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  75: 32
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• Soldiers' pie : being the unofficial journal of the C,D,E & F Coys. Artillery, Specialists N.Z.E. (Tunnellers) N.Z.M.C. of the 32nd Reinforcements. [1918]. London, England: R. Clay and sons, Ltd.