Thomas Flint York

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Thomas Flint AWMM

Ingoa whānau

York AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 23/657 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

11 Nov 1880 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

11 November 1880

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Wāhi Whānau

Christchurch, New Zealand

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Ngahere, Waimate, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs M.D. York (wife), Ngahere, Waimate, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Married AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 23/657 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1915 Gallipoli; 1916 Egyptian (25.12.1915)

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Mētara me ngā Tohu

• British War Medal
  Victory Medal
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• 1914-1915 Star
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Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 30 or HMNZT 31 or HMNZT 32 or HMNZT 33 or HMNZT 34 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Rifleman AWMM B Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM

• Rifleman York was one of the first six members of the Rifle Brigade to be killed in Egypt (Austin, 1924) AWMM
• Married Miss Maggie Watson BROWN, spinster on 5 July 1906 at Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand. Daughter Janet born 1907 and son Thomas born 1910.
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Matenga

25 Dec 1915 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt AWMM E 159 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

"Rifleman Thomas Flint York, of the 1st Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action against the Senussi, on the Egyptian border, on Christmas Day, was a son of Mr Thomas York, of Woolston, and was 36 years old. He was educated at Christ's College.

He was engaged in farming in the Wairarapa and, latterly, at Waimate.

Rifleman York married a daughter of the late Mr D. H. Brown, of Fendalton. His wife and two children live at Waimate."

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Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, L T Watkins. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-NZRi.html
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22023373
  Further Reference
• Austin, W.S. (1924). 1st Battalion at Mersa Matruh, Egypt
  http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-NZRi-t1-body-d2-d3.html
  Further Reference
• SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
  https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=2494
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/110242/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/110242
  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: 805
• 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
• 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