Edward Hector Walker

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Edward Hector AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Walker AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Hector AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 26721 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

11 Nov 1895 AWMM
Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 30 May 1916 AWMM 246 Great North Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs H. Walker (grandmother), 246 Great North Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 23 Sep 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• Messines AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 26721 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

Cadets and Territorials AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 30 May 1916 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Clerk AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 8th Reinforcements 4th Battalion, H Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 10 inches AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  Fair AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  9 stone AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Fair AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Blue AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

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

Matenga

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Mesen, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM VI.C.31 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Family grave memorial, Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland 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/R22014937
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/482732/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/482732
  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.
  41: 37
• Information kindly provided by family
  See 'The Pakeha', ship's newspaper, October 1916, of the 17th Reinforcements of the NZEF. Copy in the Armoury Vertical File.
• 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
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.