George Ford Prescott

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

George Ford AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Prescott AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 83179 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Tuakau, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs L.M. Prescott (mother), Tuakau, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 83179 AWMM

Te urunga

Clerk AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

Gunner/Military AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of broncho pneumonia following influenza AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Gunner/Military AWMM
New Zealand Training Unit AWMM

Matenga

17 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of Disease AWMM

Urupā

Featherston Cemetery, Western Lake Road, Featherston, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM Grave 559A AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Featherston Cemetery Memorial, Featherston, New Zealand AWMM
• Roll of Honour, Tuakau, WW1, 1914 - 1918, Tuakau Memorial Hall, George Street, Tuakau, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
• Tuakau War Memorial, Tuakau Services Cemetery, corner of Alexandra Redoubt Road and Roberts Road, Tuakau, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Tuakau War Memorial, corner of Alexandra Redoubt Road and Roberts Road, Tuakau, Waikato, New Zealand 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 personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20802733
  Further Reference
• Featherston Camp. Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 122, 19 November 1918, Page 5
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19181119.2.22.1&srpos
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online Featherston Cemetery War Memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/featherston-cemetery-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Tuakau War Memorial Hall
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tuakau-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Tuakau War Memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tuakau-services-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643535/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643535
  Further Reference
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
  http://web.archive.org/web/20220331095731/https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Documents/Provisional-list-NZ-victims-of-1918-Flu-Pandemic-Ancestry.pdf
  Sources Used

Ngā tuhinga

• The Evening Post
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Royal New Zealand Navy List (c.1921-c.1970) - kindly provided by Ralph McNabb. This list was not collated by McNabb but was sourced from the Royal New Zealand Navy.
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
• Hickford, Paul, They Marched to War, 2019, pp.18 & 42.
  Public - Paul - Researcher - 28 April 2021 - Tribute to Bank of New Zealand staff and family members who served in WWI.