Donald Cray

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Donald AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Cray AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 55585 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England

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Whānautanga mai

24 May 1897 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

24 May 1897

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Wāhi Whānau

Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of George Stephen and Mary Helen (nee McBeath) Cray.

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Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

Deceased

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Uri kiritahi

G.S. Cray (father), Selwyn Street, Timaru, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 55585 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1 year 5 months and 5 days.

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Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Military Medal (MM) AWMM
  London Gazette, 11 December 1918, p14670, Rec No 2275. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in the Field at Puisieux-au-Mont on the nights of 14th/15th August. When the Battalion was advancing against the enemy by means of a series of fighting patrols who were attacking the rearguard positions of the enemy. The party to which this man belonged had all its non-commissioned officers casualtied and the advance was temporarily hung up by the strong enemy machine gun post situated in such a position as to make impossible all communication with the troops on the right. This man assumed command of his party and led a bombing section along a completely straight section of trench which was absolutely enfiladed by the machine gun in question. His initiative and courageous action resulted, after considerable bombing, in the withdrawal of the enemy post. His handling of the men in a very critical stage of the operation was admirable, and his conduct and actions inspired the men to an extraordinary extent. Subsequently in the consolidation of the new line he rendered immense assistance until his Company was relieved some 24 hours afterwards, during which time his section of the line was subjected to intense artillery fire. AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Whakangungu ope taua

NZ, UK and France

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Te urunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Banker/Civilian AWMM
• 24 April 1917
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

19 years 11 months

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Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka

On staff of Bank of New Zealand Raetihi branch.

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 13 Oct 1917-08 Dec 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 94 AWMM Vessel was Arawa AWMM Private AWMM 30th Reinforcements, E Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Matenga

29 Sept 1918 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial, Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM
• Memorial plaque, Bank of New Zealand (Officers of the BNZ who laid down their lives in the Great War AD 1914-1919), BNZ Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Waitaki Boys' High School Roll of Honour WWI 1914-1918 AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21898956
  Further Reference
• SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
  https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=1288
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1738595/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1738595
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• Bank of New Zealand officers who enlisted for military service in the First World War. Research completed by Paul Hickford (2014-2017).
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  72: 17
• 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. 4: 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.
• McDonald, K. C. (1958). A history of Waitaki Boys’ High School, 1883-1958. Christchurch [N.Z.] : Whitcombe and Tombs.