John Walker Wardell

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

John Walker AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Wardell AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 13266 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Robert Wardell (father), Opaheke, 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 13266 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Ironmonger/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 26 Jun 1916-22 Aug 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 56 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM 14th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery, No. 1 Field Battery AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Gunner/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

Son of Robert and Cicely Wardell, of Auckland, New Zealand. Late of Yorkshire, England

Remembered on the Papakura - Karaka War Memorial

He may not be commemorated on the Papakura - Karaka War Memorial because the name recorded is W.H. Wardell.

Next of Kin: Mrs C. Wardell, P.O. Green Lane, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

31 Jul 1917 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Wāhi Mate

Koksijde (Coxyde), Belgium

Public - freddy - Researcher - 17 November 2015 - Military File

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Tuhipoka mō te matenga

• The same day as John Walker Wardell, they are buried next to each other.
  Public - freddy - Researcher - 17 November 2015 - Military Personnel File
• He was with his Field Artillery Brigade in Koksijde (Coxyde) at the Belgian Cost, not far way from Nieuwpoort (Nieuport). Koksijde is about 40 Kms from Ypres/Ieper. his Artillery Brigade was about 6 months taking a sector from the French, who had to help in the Battle of Passchendaele that started the day William Bell died.
  Public - freddy - Researcher - 17 November 2015 - NZ Artillery in the field 1914-18

Urupā

Coxyde Military Cemetery, Koksijde, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM III. A. 12. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Papakura - Karaka War Memorial, Great South Road, Papakura, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial, Selwyn Chapel at Christ Church (Anglican), 40 Coles Crescent, Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial Stone, Selwyn Chapel at Christ Church (Anglican), 40 Coles Crescent, Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Briscoe & Co. Staff Roll of Honour Board, Morningside, Auckland AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22015915
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/90575/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/90575
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/4386
  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.
  34: 19
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 56 - The kit-bag : the unofficial record of the following units of the Fourteenth Reinforcements on board the "Maunganui", Troopship 56 -- Cape Town : Printed by Cape Times : 1916.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.