Archibald Cooper Hirst Shaw

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Archibald Cooper Hirst AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Shaw AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWII 1030 AWMM
• WWII NZ1030 AWMM
• WWII NZD1030 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1912

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 June 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/archibald-cooper-hirst-shaw

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Hugh MacDonald and Mary Brown Shaw (nee Cooper), of Rotorua

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 June 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/archibald-cooper-hirst-shaw

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW2 Oturoa Road, Ngongotaha, Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

River Plate AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Navy AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWII 1030 AWMM
• WWII NZ1030 AWMM
• WWII NZD1030 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• HMNZ Philomel AWMM
• Royal New Zealand Navy AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW2 Able Seaman/Military AWMM
Royal Navy, HMS Achilles, New Zealand Division AWMM

Son of Hugh MacDonald and Mary Brown Shaw (nee Cooper), of Rotorua

Address details compiled from information in the Casualty lists published in the newspapers. AWMM

Matenga

13 Dec 1939 AWMM
Age  27 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Although hot a Waikato sailor at the time of the action, Able Seaman Archibald C. H. Shaw, of Rotorua, who was one of the two New Zealanders killed on the Achilles, was formerly a resident of Cambridge, from where he enlisted with the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy in 1928. Shortly before the outbreak of war he had undergone a course of advanced gunnery in Australia

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 June 2024 - ON H.M.S. ACHILLES
TE AWAMUTU COURIER, VOLUME 60, ISSUE 4248, 26 FEBRUARY 1940, PAGE 5

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport Naval Base, HMNZS Philomel, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Rotorua Citizens War Memorial (World War 2) AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Cambridge Cenotaph, Victoria St, Cambridge 3434 AWMM
• Cambridge World War Two War Memorials AWMM
• Cambridge World War Two War Memorials AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• HMS Achilles casualty list. Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1939, Page 14
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19391216.2.134&srpos
  Further Reference
• National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Commemorative Scroll.
  http://navymuseum.co.nz/commemorative-scroll/
  Further Reference
• NZ History online - Battle of the River Plate
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/battle-of-river-plate
  Further Reference
• Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21346617
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• The Evening Post
• Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.