George Frederick Masterman

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

George Frederick AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Masterman AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/2544 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

16 Aug 1886 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

16 August 1886

Public - Briee - Direct descendant - 18 April 2020 - Family information

Wāhi Whānau

Wilmington, South Australia, Australia

Public - Briee - Direct descendant - 18 April 2020 - Family Information

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Awamarino, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

• W.H. Masterman (father), Wilmington, South Australia AWMM
• Clara Masterman (mother), Wilmington, South Australia
  Public - Briee - Direct descendant - 18 April 2020 - Family information

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 13 Jun 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/2544 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 13 Jun 1915-24 Jul 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 24 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM

Son of William and Clara Masterman, of Little Spring Creek, Wilmington. South Australia

Next of Kin: Mr W. H. Masterman, Wilmington S. A. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

8 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  28 AWMM

Pakeke i te matenga

28

Public - Briee - Direct descendant - 18 April 2020 - Family papers

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Tuhipoka mō te matenga

PTE. G. F. MASTERMAN
The following extract from a letter written by a member of the 5th Reinforcements, who is now in hospital at Malta, relates how Pte. George Frederick Masterman met his death. Pte. Masterman belonged to the Wilmington district of South Australia, and until the letter was published in New Zealand his relatives and friends were not aware of how he died. “We landed on August 5 on the peninsula, and we were under heavy fire all the time. We were in the trenches a day and a night, and then we were relieved. That day George, being a good shot, was called to go after a Turkish sniper, who had been playing havoc with our men. He was not out more than three hours before he got his man. I think it was one of the pluckiest acts performed by any of our company. George would surely have been recommended for it had he lived to see it through. But bad luck seemed to be hanging round. George was killed next morning. I was standing near him when at about 6 o’clock the Turks began to get the range of our trench with big shells, which we call 75 high explosives, and also shrapnel. The first two shells they sent over blew the sides of the trench in and almost smothered us. George was buried in it up to his shoulders, and I was covered right over, but George got out quickly, and he was able to dig me out. We were shaken up, but had escaped again. An hour later, just as we were being relieved by the Otago Company, we were all crowded in the corner of the trench, and over came a shrapnel shell, which blew George out of the trench, killed the other man the other side of him, and wounded four others (George was shot to pieces about the chest and lower part of the body). We could not shift him until the shelling ceased. His grave is right near the road leading into the trenches. Not only did he give his life for his country, but he did a good deal towards lessening the Turks, for he was a wonderful shot, nearly every shot he fired telling its deadly tale.

Public - Briee - Direct descendant - 18 April 2020 - Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Wednesday 12 April 1916, page 8 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59633144

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21373543
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/680204/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/680204
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• HMNZT 24. Maunganuian : one of the many unofficial journals of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. (1915). At sea: Fifth Reinforcements. Printe by W.F. Forster and Co., Albany.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 491
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.