David Paterson

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

David AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Paterson AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 11/596 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

21 May 1891 AWMM

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Robert & Margaret PATERSON

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 19 September 2025 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• Pre 12 Aug 1914 AWMM Tarata, New Zealand AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM

Uri kiritahi

• Robert Paterson, Sen. (father), Tarata, via Inglewood, New Zealand AWMM
• Robert Paterson, sen. (father), Tarata, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
• Pre 13 Nov 1917 AWMM Unknown Marital Status AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• Sinai & Palestine AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 11/596 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

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

Te urunga

• WW1 12 Aug 1914 AWMM
  Age  23 AWMM
  Unknown/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
  HMNZT 6 or HMNZT 10 AWMM Vessel was Orari or Arawa AWMM Sergeant AWMM Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM Main Body AWMM
• WW1 13 Nov 1917-21 Dec 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 98 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 34th Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles Brigade AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 6 1/4 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  145 1/2 pounds AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  Dark AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Dark Brown AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM

David was the first person to enlist in Tarata. He served in Gallipoli and then returned to NZ. He went back to war, leaving for France with the 34th Mounted Reinforcements. Brothers Willie and Dugald also served overseas.

A stained glass window was erected in the Tarata Presbyterian Church in memory of David.

SuppNom: Ex Main Body. AWMM

Matenga

1 Apr 1918 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Jerusalem Memorial, Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20810378
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880637
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1646607/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1646607
  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: 567
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  74: 13
• Taranaki Budget
  Taranaki Budget, 23.10.15 : Has a letter from Sgt David Paterson on active service.
• Andrews, T. (1967). "Kiwi trooper" : the story of Queen Alexandra's Own. Wanganui, N.Z.: Wanganui Chronicle.
  Kiwi Trooper : The story of Queen Alexandra's Own' by Ted Andrews has details of his death on P.172.
• Wilkie, A.H. (1924). Official War History of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914 - 1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  p. 206.
• HMNZT 98. The horse marines : a chronicle of their voyage on H.M.N.Z.T.98 T.S.S. Tofua, Nov. 13 to Dec. 21, 1917. Editor, Tpr. J.A. Kyd; sub-editor, Sgt. G.B. Young.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.