Robert Smith

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Robert AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Smith AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Robert Smith AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 31729 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

17 Mar 1887 Kiwi Jocks Research
8 Wallace St, Dundee AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs S. Smith (mother), Melville Place, Blairgowrie, Scotland AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Messines AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 31729 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 15 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 68 or HMNZT 69 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM 19th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Robert Smith was the son of Mrs. Catherine Jessie Smith, of 6 Leslie St., Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.

New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141.

Next of Kin: Mrs S. Smith, Blairgowrie, Perthshire (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium 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/R7819254
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1738304/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1738304
  Further Reference
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  https://archive.org/details/newzealandatfron00lond/newzealandatfron00lond
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  45: 6
• 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
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Kiwi Jocks or Scottish-born New Zealand soldiers in the NZEF. Information kindly provided by Andrew Nixon, Scotland between 2009 and 2010.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.