Barton Wicksteed

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Barton AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Wicksteed AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWII 46277 AWMM
• 33682 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

29 May 1910 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW2 Pembroke Road, Stratford AWMM

Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

Barton Wicksteed was a career soldier

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Uri kiritahi

WW2 Mrs Eileen Wicksteed (wife), Grand Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Unknown AWMM Married/WWII AWMM
• Married to Eileen Hancock whom he met while at Sandhurst.
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Pakanga

• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
• Korean War, 1950-1953 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

Pacific Theatre of War AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWII 46277 AWMM
• 33682 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• Regular Force 1928-45 AWMM
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Korea Medal (EIIR) AWMM
• United Nations Medal for Korea AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM
• New Zealand Operational Service Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Teacher/Civilian AWMM

Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka

He was selected in 1928 to attend the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in England. He left NZ in

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW2 Lieutenant Colonel/Military AWMM 17 Field Regiment AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (In the Pacific) (2NZEF (IP)), 3rd Division AWMM
• Korea Royal New Zealand Artillery AWMM British Commonwealth Forces Korea (Kayforce) AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM
• Korea Major/Military AWMM 1st Commonwealth Division, Headquarters AWMM
  3rd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Korea Major/Military AWMM
Royal New Zealand Artillery Regiment AWMM

Matenga

4 Aug 1952 AWMM
Age  42 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

United Nations Cemetery, Pusan, Korea AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

New Zealand in the Korean War. NZHistory online.
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/korean-war
Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1945). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 9 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1942 to 31st December, 1942). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 9: WW2 425
• McGibbon, I.C. (1992-1996). New Zealand and the Korean War (Vols. 1-2). Auckland, N.Z.; Wellington, N.Z.: Oxford University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs.
  Vol. II: Combat Operations,1996, pp. 194, 276, 371, 393, 413.
• Chamberlain, H. (2013). The New Zealand Korea Roll : honouring those who served in the New Zealand Armed Forces in Korea, 1950-1957. Wellington, N.Z.: Author.
  p. 432
• Information kindly provided by family
• HQ 3 (NZ) Div. NZEFIP. Official Dinner, New Caledonia, 9 August 1943. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, EPH-W2-10-7.