Geoffrey McPherson Brown

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Geoffrey McPherson AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Brown AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/43 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Anglican, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

23 Aug 1894 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Schoolhouse, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

T.H. Brown (father), Schoolmaster, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/43 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 16 Aug 1914 AWMM
Age  17 AWMM
School teacher/Civilian 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 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Battalion, 3rd (Auckland) Company AWMM

Matenga

8 May 1915 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Obituary: Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. 1915. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Twelve Tree Copse (New Zealand) Memorial, Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Helles, Turkey AWMM
• Auckland Grammar School War Memorial, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial street name: Brown Street, Takapuna, Auckland AWMM
• Memorial plaque, St Peter's Anglican Church, 11 Killarney Street, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

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/R21888563
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register: Auckland Grammar War Memorial
  http://www.historic.org.nz/TheRegister/RegisterSearch/RegisterResults.aspx?RID=4472
  Further Reference
• Portrait in Home Studio, Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 26 June 1915, Page 14
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TO19150626.2.23.1&srpos
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1739016/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1739016
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 84
• Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland Grammar School.
  1915, Second term. p.16.
• Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland Grammar School.
  1917, Third term. p.23.
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• 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.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.