Alexander Mee

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Alexander AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Mee AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 42532 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

15 Apr 1886 AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

15 April, 1886

Public - Bryan - Other relative - 1 January 2018 - http://ourfamilyhistory.co.nz/mulligans/mulg04.html#19

Wāhi Whānau

Kuri Bush, East Taeiri, Otago, New Zealand

Public - Bryan - Other relative - 1 January 2018 - http://ourfamilyhistory.co.nz/mulligans/mulg04.html#19

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

5th of 7 siblings

Public - Bryan - Other relative - 1 January 2018 - http://ourfamilyhistory.co.nz/mulligans/mulg04.html#19

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Erin Hills Farm, Kuri Bush

Public - Bryan - Other relative - 1 January 2018 - Military Personnel File

Uri kiritahi

• WW1 Mrs Margaret Mee (mother), Kuri Bush, Otago, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Jessie Mee (nee Coutts), Brighton, Otago
  Public - Bryan - Other relative - 1 January 2018 - Military Personnel File

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Married

Public - Bryan - Other relative - 1 January 2018 - http://ourfamilyhistory.co.nz/mulligans/mulg04.html#19

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 42532 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 05 Apr 1917-10 Jun 1917 AWMM to Devonport AWMM
HMNZT 81 AWMM Vessel was Devon AWMM Private AWMM 24th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Regiment, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Alexander Mee was the son of the late Samuel and Margaret Mee, of Kuri Bush, Otago, New Zealand; husband of Jessie Mee, of Brighton, Otago.

The original documents of Alexander Mee, including his war diary and letters written to his wife Jessie were on display at the Archives New Zealand Dunedin from September 22 to 24 December 2014. AWMM

Matenga

12 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  31 AWMM
Ypres AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21374395
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Archives, Discover our Stories, Alexander Mee
  https://archives.govt.nz/discover-our-stories/alexander-mee
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/847932/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/847932
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• http://gallery.archives.govt.nz/v/dunedin/Alexander+Mee/
  Public - Vivienne - Self - 9 February 2015 - Probate and Service file. Alexander Mee's Probate contains his War Diary, Letters to Jessie Mee and his Will [Archives Reference: DAAC/9075/D239/363 - 4956]. It is held in Archives New Zealand Dunedin Regional Office.

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  59: 11
• 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
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• HMNZT 81 - Bulldogs' bark and Devon lyre : being the unofficial organ of the Right Wing, 24th Reinforcement. N.Z.E.F. Morgan, R.C. (Robert Carhampton), editor. Kiely, R.D. (Robert Dale), editor. -- Capetown : Printed by the Cape Times : 1917