Allan Morpeth

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Allan AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Morpeth AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 18899 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

13 Jun 1885 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW1 Waihi AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW1 H.D. Morpeth (father), Waihi AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 02 Jan 1917 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 18899 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• 6 Hauraki Company AWMM
• 6 (Hauraki) Regiment AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 08 Jan 1916 AWMM Surveyor AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 02 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 73 AWMM Vessel was Opawa AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 20th Reinforcements, E Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Son of Henry Douglas Morpeth and Kate Morpeth, of Waihi

Six brothers served in World War 1: Allan (18899) killed in 1917; George Douglas (44944); Gerald (12/416); Moore (12/1039) killed in 1915; Robert Nicoll (12/295) and Sloan (48797).

Attended Auckland Grammar School.

Next of Kin: Mr H. D. Morpeth, Morrinsville (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

2 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  33 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Oxford Road Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM I. E. 3 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Obituary: Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. 1917. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland Grammar School War Memorial, New Zealand AWMM
• Waihi RSA, 71 Seddon Avenue, Waihi 3610 AWMM
• 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/R21377406
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register: Auckland Grammar War Memorial
  http://www.historic.org.nz/TheRegister/RegisterSearch/RegisterResults.aspx?RID=4472
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/439356/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/439356
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/3499
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  49: 6
• Morpeth, T. (2008). The "Waiheathens" at Gallipoli. Waihi, N.Z.: A.P. Morpeth. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2010-22.
• Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland Grammar School.
  1917, Third term. pp.16-17.
• 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. 2: Includes portrait
• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• 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.
• Hickford, Paul, They Marched to War, 2019, pp. 18, 271 & 272.
  Public - Paul - Researcher - 28 April 2021 - Tribute to Bank of New Zealand staff and their family members who served in WWI.