Walter George Ormsby

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Walter George AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Ormsby AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Walter George Rewi Ormsby AWMM
• Waata Omipi AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 23/248 AWMM
• WWI 3/248 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāti Maniapoto, Māori AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

20 Jan 1898 AWMM
Greymouth, New Zealand AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW1 Pre 29 May 1915 AWMM 2 Hayes Street, Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW1 George Ormsby (father), Gonville Avenue, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• Battle of the Somme AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 23/248 AWMM
• WWI 3/248 AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Whakangungu ope taua

Trentham, Signaller Training AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 29 May 1915 AWMM
Age  17 AWMM
Clerk AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 09 Oct 1915-17 Nov 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 30 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Rifleman AWMM Battalion Signallers AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 9 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  118 pounds AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  Fair AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Grey AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Light AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Matenga

15 Sept 1916 AWMM
Age  18 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers, Somme, France AWMM III.E.28 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Weekly News March 15 1917 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• WWI Roll of Honour, Ngāti Maniapoto's Memorial Flag Pole, Te Tokanganui-a-Noho, Te Kūiti AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/193914/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/193914
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 554
• Auckland Weekly News
  Weekly News March 15 1917
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Roa, T., Paki, M., & Pūrekireki Marae. (2015). Maiea te tupua : whānau accounts of Waikato-Maniapoto World War One veterans and one conscriptee : commemorating 100 years of World War One. Pirongia : Pūrekireki Marae.
• McClintock, K., Turner, K., Searancke, M., Manawaiti, S., Meredith, P. (2024). Ngāti Maniapoto Ope Taua 1914 – 1918.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 30 - The Periscope : unofficial mouthpiece of the 1st Battalion N.Z. Rifle Brigade (Earl of Liverpool's Own) and Divisional Ammunition Column -- At sea : Officers & men of the Reinforcement : 1915