Hubert James Ricketts

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Hubert James AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Ricketts AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 2/1664 AWMM
• WWI 1/431 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

22 Oct 1892 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Russell Street, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW1 J.J. Ricketts (father), Russell Street, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 2/1664 AWMM
• WWI 1/431 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Driver/Military AWMM New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 13 Jun 1915-06 Aug 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 26 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Acting Bombardier/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

Son of John and Eliza Ricketts, of 17, Russell St., Port Nelson, New Zealand. Also served at Samoa and Egypt. Born at Nelson, New Zealand.

He enlisted in the 5th Field Artillery at the outbreak of war and was a Bombardier in the 6th Howitzer Battery.

He was killed when he volunteered to go and bring in some wounded men from a bomb crater. AWMM

Matenga

4 Oct 1916 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Nelson Cenotaph, Anzac Park, Nelson

Public - Peter - Researcher - 30 October 2018 - on site

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/557083/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/557083
  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.
  Page No: 616
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Information kindly provided by family
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-
• HMNZT 26 - Oily rag : just another transport production. At sea : H.M.N.Z.T. No. 26, [1915]. No Known Copyright Restrictions.