George William Byres

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

George William AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Byres AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 59315 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 18th May 1897

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Wāhi Whānau

Marton

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of William & Maria Nitschke BYRES

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Post Office, Te Araroa, Gisborne

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Uri kiritahi

Mrs M. Byres (mother), Wellington Road, Marton, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 59315 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Telegraph cadet clerk/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 22 Nov 1917-07 Jan 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 95 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM 32nd Reinforcements Divisional Signalling Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Engineers AWMM

George Byres was the son of William and Marie Byres, of Wellington Rd., Marton, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mr W. Byres, Wellington Rd., Marton (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

18 Sept 1918 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM III. B. 14. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

KILLED IN ACTION.
BYRES—Somewhere in France, 59315 Sapper G. W. Byres, of the 32nd Divisional Signaller's Engineers Corps, who volunteered at Gisoorne in 1917. The eldest son of W. and M. H. Byres, aged 21 years 4 months. He did his little bit for his country.

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RANGITIKEI ADVOCATE AND MANAWATU ARGUS, VOLUME XLII, ISSUE 11654, 4 OCTOBER 1918, PAGE 4

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21890838
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/184357/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/184357
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  75: 25
• 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. 4: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 95. Grey funnel : with which is incorporated The tin hut table, Empire’s call, and The Quinn's Post nightly : the official organ of Troopship 95 on her 8th trip to the homeland. 1917. London: Published by a N.Z. Reinforcement, printed by St. Clements Press.