Francis Lionel Weeks

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Francis Lionel AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Weeks AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 26/285 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

4th March 1895

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Wāhi Whānau

Gisborne

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Thomas and Annie Weeks, of Gisborne,

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 June 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/francis-lionel-weeks

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Station hand at Hexton, Gisborne

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Uri kiritahi

Mrs T. Weeks (mother), 309 Jervois Road, Hastings, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 26/285 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Stationhand/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 42 or HMNZT 43 or HMNZT 44 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua AWMM Rifleman AWMM 1st Reinforcements, 4th Battalion AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 4th Battalion AWMM

Francis Weeks was the son of Thomas and Annie Weeks, of Gisborne, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mr T. Weeks, Waioheka, Gisborne (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

23 Nov 1916 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM I. F. 29. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

• Mr. T. Weeks, of Hastings, has received word that his son, Gunner F. L. Weeks, was killed in action on November 22nd. The late soldier, who was only 19 years of age, belonged to the 3rd New Zealand Light Trench Mortar Battery.
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 June 2023 - HAWKE'S BAY TRIBUNE, VOLUME VI, ISSUE 299, 6 DECEMBER 1916, PAGE 3
• Rifleman F. . L. Weeks, who has; been killed in action, was the fourth son of Mr and; Mrs T. Weeks, Hawke's Bay (late of Waiohika). He was a station hand at Waiwhero and left Gisborne with the 9th reinforcements.
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 14 June 2023 - ROLL OF HONOR.
  POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME XLIII, ISSUE 14167, 8 DECEMBER 1916, PAGE 4

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/R22017516
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/291899/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/291899
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  24: 33
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• 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.