Harold Bruce Ashton

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Harold Bruce AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Ashton AWMM

Nama Hōia

23130 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1918

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Wāhi Whānau

Gisborne

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of George Edward Ashton and of Hilda Mitford Ashton (nee Austin), of Gisborne,

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/harold-bruce-ashton

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM 146 St Andrews Road, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs M.A. Ashton (wife), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
• Husband of Mary Arbuthnott Ashton, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/harold-bruce-ashton

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Western Desert AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

23130 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Infantry Reinforcements AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Second Lieutenant AWMM
24 (Auckland) Infantry Battalion AWMM

Harold Ashton was the son of George Edward Ashton and of Hilda Mitford Ashton (nee Austin), of Gisborne, Auckland, New Zealand; husband of Mary Arbuthnott Ashton, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. AWMM

Matenga

24 Nov 1941 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya AWMM 6. D. 16. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

From Auckland comes news that Second-Lieutenant Bruce Ashton, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Ashton and a brother of Mrs. L. C. D. Harries. Gisborne, was killed in action on November 24. His parents formerly resided in Gisborne for many years. Second - Lieutenant Ashton was married just prior to going overseas a year ago.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 21 June 2023 - GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXVIII, ISSUE 20632, 6 DECEMBER 1941, PAGE 4

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Auckland Grammar School War Memorial, New Zealand AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Burdon, R. (1959). 24 Battalion. Wellington, Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-24Ba.html
  Sources Used
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2095967
  Sources Used

Ngā tuhinga

• Burdon, R. (1959). 24 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 3: WW2 19
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Fortune, G. & Bebich, M. (2008). Citizenship and remembrance : a history of the 24 NZ Infantry Battalion Association. Auckland, N.Z.: Polygraphia.