Joseph McGovern

Forenames

Joseph AWMM

Surname

McGovern AWMM

Service number

• WWI 5/519 AWMM
• WWI 3/4432 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1889 AWMM

Address before enlistment

• Unknown AWMM Public Trust Office, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Public Trust Office, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

• Mrs Margaret Elizabeth McGovern (mother), Pukekohe, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Margaret Elizabeth McGovern (mother), Pukekohe, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
• Pre 13 Nov 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 5/519 AWMM
• WWI 3/4432 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM
• WW1 Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM New Zealand Army Service Corps AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 13 Nov 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 35 or HMNZT 36 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM New Zealand Army Service Corps AWMM 8th Reinforcements AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM
• WW1 09 May 1918-24 Jun 1918 AWMM
  HMNZT 103 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM 37th Reinforcements, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  3rd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Death

1 Oct 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Ribecourt Road Cemetery, near Trescault, Pas de Calais, France AWMM I. A. 9. AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Third Term, 1918. AWMM

Memorial name

• Pukekohe Intermediate School, WW1, Memorial stones & loving memory roses AWMM
• Auckland Grammar School War Memorial, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file, original paper
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880407
  Further Reference
• Military personnel file WW1 5/519, 3/4432
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10924369
  Further Reference
• The New Zealand Heritage List. War Memorial, Auckland Grammar School, Mountain Road, Epsom, Auckland.
  http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/4472
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Pukekohe school First World War memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/pukekohe-school-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/595923/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/595923
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 448
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  82: 3
• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
  Auckland Grammar School chronicle. 1918, Third term. pp.15-16.
• Franklin county news
  Alexander, E. (2 March 2006). Memorial Stones ceremony organised. Franklin County News.
• Miller, R. (Ed.). (2012). Pukekohe's memorial stones. Auckland, N.Z.: Franklin Historical Society.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• 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.