Frederick William Watson

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Frederick William AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Watson AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/1020 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

7 Jul 1890 Kiwi Jocks Research

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW1 Pre 17 Sep 1914 AWMM Survey Office, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW1 F.H. Watson (father), Bank of New South Wales, Bull's, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• Messines AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/1020 AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) AWMM
  DCM. Citation - ' For conspicuous gallantry on the 7th August 1915, at Chunuk Bair (Dardanelles), when he twice crossed a heavily fire-swept zone to carry forward ammunition. Later he brought in a wounded man under heavy fire.' London Gazette 14/01/1916 AWMM
• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 17 Sep 1914 AWMM Surveyor AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 8 or HMNZT 12 AWMM Vessel was Star of India or Waimana AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM Main Body AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Served in Auckland Battalion and New Zealand Machine Gun Corps in Gallipoli, Egypt and France.

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: Mr F. H. Watson, Tukapa St, New Plymouth (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM II. A. 25. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• All Saints Church, 284 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby Auckland 1011 AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22016754
  Further Reference
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/444100/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/444100
  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

• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 760
• 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.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, 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.