Hugh Stocker

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Hugh AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Stocker AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 2/2269 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

20 Jan 1885 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Archdeacon (Harry) & Clara Mary Stocker, of 111, Springfield Rd., Christchurch

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 8 June 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records & https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/hugh-stocker

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• Unknown AWMM Poututu, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
• Occupation: Farmer
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 8 June 2023 - Military records

Uri kiritahi

Archdeacon Stocker (father), 13 Dee Street, Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 2/2269 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 32 or HMNZT 33 or HMNZT 34 AWMM Vessel was Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
• Height, WWI AWMM
  5' 9" AWMM
• Weight, WWI AWMM
  154 lb AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Acting Bombardier/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

Matenga

15 Sept 1916 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Tuhipoka mō te matenga

Acting-Bombardier Hugh Stocker, who has been killed in action (as the Wellington records show), was a son of Archdeacon Stocker, St Albans, Christchurch. He was farming in this district, and left Gisborne with the artillery draft of the 8th. Reinforcements

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 8 June 2023 - ROLL OF HONOR.
POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME XLIII, ISSUE 14111, 30 SEPTEMBER 1916, PAGE 3

Urupā

Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, France AWMM XII. J. 6. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Amongst other recent arrivals is Lieut. V. Stocker, son of Archbishop Stocker, of Christchurch. Originally he was an artillery gunner with the main body. After Gallipoli operations he was promoted to second-Lieutenant. He was wounded during the battle of the Somme, October, 1916, and was awarded the Military Cross for remaining at his post for several hours through heavy shell-fire, after all the other officers had been put out of action. Lieut. Stocker has; .returned for duly. Two brothers, Private L Stocker and Gunner H. Stocker, have been killed in action, while a third, Sergeant E. Stocker, was permanently incapacitated.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 8 June 2023 - POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME XLV, ISSUE 14496, 7 JANUARY 1918, PAGE 3

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7821903
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/550367/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/550367
  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: 697
• NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
• 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. 4: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.