Bernard Arthur Smith

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Bernard Arthur AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Smith AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 10/3741 AWMM
• 4/223
  Public - Brian - Researcher - 3 November 2016 - SMITH, Bernard Arthur - WW1 10/3741, 4/223 - Army (R7818410) 4/223 joined 11/8/1914 left 19/4/1915 rejoined under 10/3741 14/9/1915

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

24 Oct 1886 AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs J.B. Smith (mother), Barnett Street, Ashburton, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 10/3741 AWMM
• 4/223
  Public - Brian - Researcher - 3 November 2016 - SMITH, Bernard Arthur - WW1 10/3741, 4/223 - Army (R7818410) 4/223 joined 11/8/1914 left 19/4/1915 rejoined under 10/3741 14/9/1915

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Railway porter/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 08 Jan 1916-08 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 37 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Lance Sergeant/Military AWMM 9th Reinforcements Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Bernard Smith was the son of George A. Smith, of Winchester, Timaru, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs J. B. Peey? Dobson St, Ashburton (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

11 Dec 1917 AWMM
Age  31 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Polygon Wood Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM D. 16. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM
• 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/R7818410
  Further Reference
• Are you a relative of this soldier and want to keep his memory alive? With the ‘Wood of Peace’ project you can plant a tree in his name in 2017 near Polygon Wood, Belgium.
  http://passchendaele2017.org/en/evenementen/vredesbos-polygoonbos/
  Further Reference
• SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
  https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=2249
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/480068/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/480068
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/1467
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  21: 18
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 37. Quinn's Post. New Zealand troopship magazine. As transport no. 37 the "Maunganui" carried the 9th Reinforcements, departing New Zealand 8 January 1916 and arriving Suez 8 February 1916. O.C. Troops was Capt. W.T. Joll and Ship's Master Capt. L. Worrall.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.