James Hattersley Atkinson

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

James Hattersley AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Atkinson AWMM

Nama Hōia

2574 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Sheffield, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Atkinson (mother), Sheffield, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

2574 AWMM

Te urunga

South Africa Unknown AWMM Contractor/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

South Africa Vessel was Maori AWMM Trooper AWMM 14 Company, C Squadron, New Zealand Mounted Rifles AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 5th Contingent (New Zealand Imperial Bushmen) AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

South Africa Trooper AWMM
New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 5th Contingent (New Zealand Imperial Bushmen) AWMM

Atkinson was buried near Paardeburg, O.R.C., under trees in garden of Leeuwfontein Farm, about 5 miles south of drift.

Father was named Thomas Atkinson. AWMM

Matenga

29 Apr 1901 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Leeuwfontein Farm (about 5 miles south of drift), Paardeberg, Orange Free State, South Africa AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Ranfurly Veterans' Home, 539 Mount Albert Road, Three Kings, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, South African War Memorial 1899 - 1902 AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Stowers, R. (2002). Rough Riders at War: history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer war 1899-1902 and information on all members of the ten New Zealand contingents. Author: Hamilton, N.Z.
• Perham, F. (1959). The Kimberley Flying Column : being reminiscences of service in the South African War of 1899-1903. Timaru, N.Z.: Printers and Publishers.
  (DT 932 Per)
• Stowers, R. (1992). Kiwi versus Boer : the First New Zealand Mounted Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand.
  p. 9.