Basil George Lock

Forenames

Basil George AWMM

Surname

Lock AWMM

Service number

WWI 23/488 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Allen Street, Morrinsville, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Miss M.B. Lock (sister), 23 Grosvenor Place, Bath, England AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 23/488 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 30 or HMNZT 31 or HMNZT 32 or HMNZT 33 or HMNZT 34 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Rifleman AWMM Machine-gun Section AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, 3 Company AWMM

Basil Lock was the son of George Thomas and B. A. Lock, of Bath, England.

New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141.

Next of Kin: Mrs M. B Lock Bath, England (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Pont-D'Achelles Military Cemetery, Nieppe, Nord, France AWMM I. B. 11. AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland Railway Station, Te Taou Crescent, Auckland 1010. AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. 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/R10920289
  Further Reference
• 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/189660/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/189660
  Further Reference
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  https://archive.org/details/newzealandatfron00lond/newzealandatfron00lond
  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: 422
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• 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 30 - The Periscope : unofficial mouthpiece of the 1st Battalion N.Z. Rifle Brigade (Earl of Liverpool's Own) and Divisional Ammunition Column -- At sea : Officers & men of the Reinforcement : 1915
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.