Charles Augustus Nelson

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Charles Augustus AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Nelson AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Charles Agustus AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 40614 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1 Feb 1892 AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs C. Nelson (mother), 18 Second Avenue, Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 40614 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Carpenter/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 14 Mar 1917-21 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 79 AWMM Vessel was Ruapehu AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 23rd Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Charles Nelson was the son of Charles and Caroline Nelson, of 18 Second Avenue, Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Middle name incorrectly spelt as Agustus in Nominal Roll.

Next of Kin: Mrs C. Nelson, Kingsland, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

19 Nov 1917 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Buttes New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM
• Otahuhu Railway Workshops War Memorial, corner of Piki Thompson Way, Otahuhu Auckland 1062 AWMM
• Mount Albert War Memorial Hall, 773 New North Road, Mount Albert Auckland 1025 AWMM
• Parnell District School, 48 St Stephens Ave, Parnell, Auckland 1052 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/R21379759
  Further Reference
• 'Railway workers' obituaries', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/nz-railways-ww1/obituaries, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 22-Dec-2015
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/nz-railways-ww1/obituaries
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737462/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737462
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  57: 4
• New Zealand. Army (c.1920). A further list of the names of ex-members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force suffering permanent disability from 20% to 100% : compiled from returns supplied by the Commissioner of Pensions, in respect to: a) Permanent war pensions; and from returns supplied by the Director-General of Medical Services, regarding: b) discharged hospital patients; assessed as suffering permanent disability, and who are whilst in hospital, receiving full pensions. New Zealand. Director-General of Medical Services.
• 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. 1: 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.
• HMNZT 79 - Our grins : just a souvenir of the 23rds -- [Capetown?] : [Magazine Committee] : [1917]