Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Colin AWMM

Ingoa whānau

McOnie AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 26661 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW1 P. McOnie (father), Grey Street, Thames South, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Messines AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 26661 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Rifleman AWMM 8th Reinforcements 4th Battalion, H Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Colin McOnie was the son of Peter and Mary McOnie, of Forest Lake Avenue, Frankton Junction, New Zealand. Native of Owaka, Otago.

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

Next of Kin: Mr P. McOnie, Frankton Junction, Waikato (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  30 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Mesen, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM Spec. Memorial C. 14. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10926993
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/482540/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/482540
  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
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 39
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 42. The blast : the magazine of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. (1917). London: John Long Ltd. ; [On board ship] : [H.M.N.Z.T. No. 42, Ulimaroa]
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.