James Nicholson

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

James AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Nicholson AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 18023 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

7 Aug 1894 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

7th August 1894

Public - chris - Other relative - 25 January 2017 - military file

Uri kiritahi

Mrs L. Nicholson (mother), 18 Enfield Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 18023 AWMM

Te urunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Salesman/Civilian AWMM
• 27th June 1916
  Public - chris - Other relative - 2 April 2018 - Military file

Pakeke i te whakaurunga

21

Public - chris - Other relative - 2 April 2018 - Military file

Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka

Hardware assistant

Public - chris - Other relative - 25 January 2017 - military file

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 02 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 73 AWMM Vessel was Opawa AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM 20th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

10 Jan 1918 AWMM Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Gunner/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

James Nicholson was the son of the late William and Lucy Nicholson, of Auckland, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs L. Nicholson, Belgium St, Auck. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

10 Jan 1918 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Rā i mate ai

10th January 1918

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Pakeke i te matenga

23

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Wāhi Mate

About the slopes forward from Hooge Crater, outside Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914-18

Te momo matenga

• Killed in Action AWMM
• Artillary fire
  Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Tuhipoka mō te matenga

• Hostile shelling was responsible for a number of casualties at gun positions, one unlucky shot on the night of the 9th January penetrating a dug-out in the 3rd Battery and killing all five occupants
  Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914-18
• One unlucky shot on the night of the 9th January penetrating a dug-out in the 3rd Battery and killing all five occupants
  Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914-18
• Belgium
  Public - chris - Other relative - 25 January 2017 - military personal file

Urupā

Divisional Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM M. 6. AWMM

Ingoa o te urupā

Divisional Cemetary, Ypres

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Tohutoro kōhatu urupā

M.6.

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Ingoa maumaharatanga

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/R21380518
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/93345/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/93345
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1NZAr-t1-body-d2-d6.html#n267
  Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Victoria University of Wellington Library

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  49: 18
• 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
• NZWGT: Information supplied by the New Zealand War Graves Trust as part of the New Zealand War Graves project. This project was established in 2006 to record in text and photographs the 31,758 New Zealanders who have been identifed as serving with New Zealand or Allied forces, and who died in conflicts from the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) up to the present day and in peacekeeping operations.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.