Edward Abraham Wigmore

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Edward Abraham AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Wigmore AWMM

Nama Hōia

440 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Victoria Avenue, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr John Wigmore (father), Victoria Avenue, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 20 Jan 1900 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

440 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

Auckland College Rifles, Private 2 years AWMM

Te urunga

South Africa Unknown AWMM
Age  23 AWMM
Miner/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

South Africa Vessel was Waiwera AWMM Trooper AWMM 2nd New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 3 and 4 Companies AWMM 2nd Contingent AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 9.5 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  11 stone 5 pounds AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

South Africa Trooper AWMM
New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 2nd Contingent AWMM

Member of the College Rifles Rugby Football Club

Father was named John Wigmore.

Educated at St John's College, Auckland. St John's was a 19th-century boys' school in Auckland. After operating on the St John's College site in Meadowbank and later at "The Pah" in Onehunga, it officially amalgamated with King's College in 1913. AWMM

Matenga

23 Jan 1901 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 31 January 1901 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Ranfurly Veterans' Home, 539 Mount Albert Road, Three Kings, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial plaque, 2nd New Zealand Contingent, Boer War 1900, Ranfurly Veterans' Home, Auckland AWMM
• Memorial window, St Mark's Anglican Church, 95 Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial plaque, St Mark's Anglican Church, 95 Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial plaque, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Corner Khyber Pass Road and Burleigh Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Roll of Honour, College Rifles, Rugby Union Football & Sports Club, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, South African War Memorial 1899 - 1902 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 service record
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20524213
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
  Further Reference
• Ranfurly Veterans' Home. Opening ceremony to-day. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 294, 10 December 1903, Page 5
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19031210.2.26&srpos
  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.
• Military Personnel file
• Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand.
  1900. H.6. Nominal Roll
• Stowers, R. (1992). Kiwi versus Boer : the First New Zealand Mounted Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• The New Zealand Herald
  Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 31 January 1901