William Henry Bridge

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

William Henry AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Bridge AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Henry AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 31110 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

9 Jan 1897 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW1 Pre 20 Aug 1916 AWMM Kohukohu, Hokianga, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW1 Mrs W.H. Bridge (mother), Koutu, Hokianga, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 02 Jan 1917 AWMM Single/WWI 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 31110 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• Compulsory military training Territorials - 15th North Auckland Regiment AWMM
• Posted to B Company 5 Reserve 27 March 1917 AWMM
• New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2 Battalion, C Company, 3rd AWMM
• 15th North Auckland Regiment, Territorial Force AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 20 Aug 1916 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM
Storekeeper/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 02 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 73 AWMM Vessel was Opawa AWMM Rifleman AWMM 20th Reinforcements J Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 9 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  10 stone 7 pounds AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  Dark AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Distinguishing marks, Unknown Period AWMM
  slight scar over right patella (knee) AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Featherston Camp 29 August 1916 Influenza AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Featherston Camp 3 October 1916 measles AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion, C Company AWMM

Matenga

12 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland Grammar School War Memorial, New Zealand AWMM
• Hokianga Arch of Remembrance, Kohukohu, Hokianga, New Zealand AWMM
• Kaikohe War Memorial Hall, Memorial Drive Kaikohe Far North AWMM
• Kohukohu Town Hall, 25 Beach Road, Kohukohu, New Zealand 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/R22278927
  Further Reference
• The New Zealand Heritage List. War Memorial, Auckland Grammar School, Mountain Road, Epsom, Auckland.
  http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/4472
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage - Kohukohu First World War memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/kohukohu-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/847314/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/847314
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/696
  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.
• Cenotaph data entry form
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  49: 15
• 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. 2: Includes portrait
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.