Alfred James Whiterod

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Alfred James AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Whiterod AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Alf AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/3870 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Matilda Whiterod (mother), 1 Salisbury Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/3870 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Engine driver/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 08 Jan 1916-08 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 37 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM 9th Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 16th (Waikato) Company AWMM

Third son of Ann Matilda Whiterod and William W. Whiterod of 312 Taranaki Street, Wellington.

Two sons, brothers Alfred James Whiterod (12/3870) (died from wounds) and Harry Whiterod (2/2930) served overseas in WW1; a third Ernest David Whiterod (55875) served in New Zealand.

Named Alf in the Ahier diary (MS 2004/76)

Next of Kin: Mrs M. Whiterod, Salisbury Terr, Wellington (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

7 May 1917 AWMM
Age  37 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM III. B. 129 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22018788
  Further Reference
• New Zealand's Roll of Honour. Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 119, 19 May 1917, Page 1
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19170519.2.7.1&srpos
  Sources Used
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/202205/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/202205
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
• The Evening Post
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  21: 18
• Ahier, William Roland. War diary, 1917. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2004/76.
  References in Ahier, War diary, 1917. p. 21 February 1917
• New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
  New Zealand at the Front (1917), page 141
• The Evening Post
• Information kindly provided by family
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 37. Quinn's Post. New Zealand troopship magazine. As transport no. 37 the "Maunganui" carried the 9th Reinforcements, departing New Zealand 8 January 1916 and arriving Suez 8 February 1916. O.C. Troops was Capt. W.T. Joll and Ship's Master Capt. L. Worrall.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.