William Allison

Taitara

Private

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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

William AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Allison AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 9/1256 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

• Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
• Ngāi Tahu, Māori AWMM

Pono

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

10 Nov 1888 Military personnel file

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of John & Isabella Allison of Balclutha, Otago

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 February 2016 - http://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/william-allison

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW1 Pre 11 Jun 1915 AWMM Post Office., Stony Creek, Balclutha, Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW1 Mrs G. Keach (sister), Balclutha, Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

1916 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Egyptian, Egyptian EF & Western European

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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• Otago Mounted Rifles > transferred to NZ Maori Pioneer Battalion
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Nama Hōia

WWI 9/1256 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

1915-1916

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Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga

New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• Plaque & Scroll # 500190
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Te urunga

• WW1 11 Jun 1915 Military personnel file
  Age  26 AWMM
  Farm hand/Civilian Military personnel file
• 13 June 1915 at Trentham
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Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 14 Aug 1915-19 Sep 1915 Military personnel file
HMNZT 28 Military personnel file Vessel was Tofua AWMM Trooper Military personnel file Otago Mounted Rifles Military personnel file 6th Reinforcements AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private Military personnel file
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion Military personnel file

Son of John Allison, of Balclutha, Otago, and Isabella Allison. Native of Puerua, Otago.

He was buried in the field in one of several scattered graves.

Two pages of his personnel record are misfiled on the personnel file for William Allison (25/575) (Sept 2015, National Archives has been advised)

Next of Kin: Mrs G. Keach, Balclutha, Otago (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

15 Sept 1916 Military personnel file
Age  28 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Pānui Matenga

PRIVATE WILLIAM ALLISON. Mr John Allison, of North Balclutha, has received telegraphic advice from the Minister for Defence that his son, Private William Allison, has been killed in action in France. Private Allison, who is well known locally, went to Egypt as a trooper with the Sixth Reinforcements. After the Gallipoli campaign he was transferred to the infantry for service in France. Prior to enlistment he was for some time engaged as a rabbiter. His death will be regretted by his many friends in this district

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 February 2016 - Clutha Leader, Volume XLIII, Issue 26, 29 September 1916, Page 5

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Balclutha's War Memorial

Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 7 February 2016 - http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/balclutha-war-memorial

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• St Mary's Church Memorial Board, Tikitiki near Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22270907
  Sources Used
• 'Tikitiki church war memorial ', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/tikitiki-church-war-memorial, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 29-Oct-2014
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tikitiki-church-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1462820/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1462820
  Further Reference
• Ngāi Tahu Roll of Honour
  https://heraumahara.nz/roll-of-honour/#A-0
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  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: 11
• 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
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• The Surcingle : official organ of the Silent Sixth Rfcts, New Zealand Expdy Force. [At sea] : [Magazine Committee], 1915.