Rodney Talbot Devereux
I whānau mai i te 5 Mar 1879 - I mate atu i te 29 Nov 1900
- Nama Hōia
- 435 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Deveraux AWMM
- Rd B Devereux AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- South Africa Corporal/Military AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 2nd Contingent AWMM
- Pakanga
- South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Rodney Talbot AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Devereux AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Deveraux AWMM
- Rd B Devereux AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- 435 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 5 Mar 1879 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- Unknown AWMM Kundibar, 72 Market Road, One-Tree Hill, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- Henry De Bohun Devereux, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- 435 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
- College Rifles AWMM
- Waiuku Mounted Rifles AWMM
- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
- Queen's South Africa Medal (Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg clasps) AWMM
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- South Africa Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- South Africa Vessel was Waiwera AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM 2nd Contingent AWMM 2nd New Zealand Mounted Rifles. Hotchkiss Detachment AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- South Africa Corporal/Military AWMM
New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 2nd Contingent AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Father : Henry de Bohun Devereux , Customs Officer (1848-1909)
Mother : Maud Philippa Salamon (1852-1934)
4 sisters, 3 brothers
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.
Occupation:Warehouseman (Archibald Clark & Sons, Shortland Street), and Farmer (Te Aroha, Waiuku, Waihi)
Buried 20 miles north of Balmoral, with Private Oppenheim and Private Jennings
He is now buried at the Diamond Hill Garden of Remembrance.
Name is mispelt as Deveraux on the Anglo Boer War Memorial in the Auckland War Memorial Museum
Auckland Museum Library - Photograph Collection DT939 P 851
Father was named Henry De Hobun Devereux. AWMM - THE DEVEREUX MEMORIAL SHIELD At least 12 men from the small country town of Waiuku volunteered for service during the South African War.
However, the town’s only memorial of the war is dedicated to a non-resident, Corporal Rodney Talbot Devereux. Corporal Devereux, who was killed at Rhenoster Kop on 29 November 1900, was the brother of Mrs Muriel Makgill of ‘Brackmont’, Waipipi, near Waiuku. In December 1900 members of the Waiuku Mounted Rifles and friends resolved to erect a memorial to him in the Holy Trinity Anglican Church. This took the form of a substantial memorial shield with an inscribed brass plate mounted on a mahogany board. The shield is 75 cm high and 75 cm wide.
The inscription reads: ‘In memoriam / Corporal Rodney Devereux / son of the / Hon. H. De B. Devereux / who was killed in / action in the defence / of his country / in South Africa / 29th November 1900.’ In the centre is a 20 x 30 cm copper panel with a relief sculpture depicting a wounded trooper standing at defiance, with the words ‘Honour the brave’ below. The maker was an Auckland silversmith, A. Kohn.
The shield was removed from Holy Trinity when the church was closed and deconsecrated in July 2014. It is now held in the Waiuku Museum, 40 kms SE of Auckland.
Reference: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/devereux-memorial-shieldPublic - King's College Archive - Researcher - 5 May 2026 - Reference: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/devereux-memorial-shield
- Father : Henry de Bohun Devereux , Customs Officer (1848-1909)
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 29 Nov 1900 AWMM
- Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
- 22yrsPublic - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 February 2016 - Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 291, 7 December 1900, Page 5
- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Diamond Hill Garden of Remembrance, Donkerhoek, South Africa AWMM
- Reitfontein Farm Cemetery AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
- NZ Herald 16 January 1901 (account of battle)
Auckland Star, 7 December 1900 (obituary)
New Zealand Graphic, 15 December 1900 (with photograph)
New Zealand Herald, 7 December 1900 (casualty lists and obituary) AWMM - THE LATE CORPORAL DEVEREUX.
Aucklanders will deeply regret to see in the list of "killed" in the Reitfontein fight the name of a young Aucklander, Corporal Rodney Devereux ,of the Second Contingent, New Zealand Mounted Infantry. The late Corporal Devereux, who was only 22 years of age. was a son of the Hon. H. de Bohun Devereux, of the Auckland Customs. He was an old St. John's College boy, and was a corporal in the College Rifles. He had been in the employ of Messrs A. Clark and Sons, in Auckland, prior to joining the Second Contingent, His relatives had anticipated his arrival home here about Christmas, as his recent letters had stated that he had fallen behind his contingent through having lost his horse, and that he contemplated leaving for home after serving a time in the military police.
Yesterday Mr Devereux received the following telegram from the Premier: "Deeply regret to inform you that Governor at Capetown cabled me that No. 435, Corporal Rodney Devereux, was killed in recent action at Reitfontein. You have my sincere heartfelt sympathy, and the consolation, small though it be, that he died a noble death, fighting for the Empire."Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 10 February 2016 - Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 291, 7 December 1900, Page 5
- NZ Herald 16 January 1901 (account of battle)
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- 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
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, South African War Memorial 1899 - 1902 AWMM
- The Devereux Memorial Shield, Holy Trinity Anglican Church Waiuku, now held at the Waiuku Museum.Public - King's College Archive - Researcher - 5 May 2026 - https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/devereux-memorial-shield
- Roll of Honour, King's College Memorial Chapel at King's College, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand.Public - Sarah - Researcher - 5 May 2026 - Roll of Honour inside King's College Memorial Chapel.
Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- 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 - Military Cemetery- Gauteng, CULLINAN district, Donkerhoek, Diamond Hill, South Africa.
http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=655934
Further Reference - Devereux Memorial Shield, (Manatū Taonga — Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 2-Jul-2024
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/devereux-memorial-shield
Further Reference
- New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
- Ngā tuhinga
- 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.
Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 1900. H.6. Nominal Roll - The New Zealand Herald
[Account of death during the attack on at Reitfontein). (1901, 16 January). New Zealand Herald. - The New Zealand Herald
Regretted loss - Waiuku Mounted Rifles. 1900, December 10). New Zealand Herald. - The New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald, 7 December 1900 (casualty lists and obituary) - The New Zealand Graphic
New Zealand Graphic, 15 December 1900 (with photograph) - The Auckland Star
Auckland Star, 7 December 1900 (obituary)
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