Thomas Arnold Blake

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Thomas Arnold AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Blake AWMM

Nama Hōia

13/637 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

25 Aug 1882 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre 25 Aug 1914 AWMM Department of Agriculture, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

Veterinary Surgeon/Civilian AWMM
Veterinary Surgeon, Live Stock and Meat Division, Department of Agriculture AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Blake (wife), The Deverells, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Married AWMM

Pakanga

• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• France and Germany (TBC) AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

13/637 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• Rangoon Mounted Rifles AWMM
• Auckland Mounted Rifles, attached / posted N.Z. Veterinary Corps attached AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM
• Coronation Medal 1937 AWMM
• Efficiency Decoration (ED) AWMM
  Efficiency Decoration (ED). General Orders 148, 1937. Major, NZ Veterinary Corps. AWMM
• New Zealand Territorial Service Medal AWMM
  New Zealand Territorial Service Medal. General Orders 186, 23 July 1932. Captain, NZ Veterinary Corps. AWMM
• New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal AWMM
  New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal. General Orders 185, 29 July 1932. Captain, NZ Veterinary Corps. AWMM
• Croix de Guerre (Belgium) AWMM
  Croix de Guerre (Belgian). London Gazette 12 July 1918, p 8191. For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign. AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 25 Aug 1914 AWMM Veterinary Surgeon/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 3-12 AWMM Vessel was Unknown Ship AWMM Captain/Military AWMM New Zealand Veterinary Corps AWMM Main Body AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  March 1917 admitted mumps, slight. AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  December 1918 admitted congestion. AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

• Inter War 20 Aug 1919 AWMM Captain/Military AWMM
  New Zealand Veterinary Corps AWMM
• WW2 Unknown AWMM Major/Military AWMM
  New Zealand Army AWMM

Matenga

16 Sept 1966 AWMM
Age  84 AWMM

Urupā

Hamilton Park Cemetery, Totara Services (Returned Services) Lawn, 395 Morrinsville Road, Newstead, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM RSA-UNSPEC-O AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22276702
  Further Reference
• Obituary: James, J.P. (1966). Thomas Arnold Blake, T.D., M.R.C.V.S., New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 14:11, p. 200.
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00480169.1966.36643
  Further Reference
• Wedding in the desert. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, 5 November 1915, Page 3
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=HNS19151105.2.6&srpos
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Information kindly provided by family
• McDonald, W. (2001). Honours and awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. Napier, N.Z.: Helen McDonald.
• Taylor, A. (1998). The New Zealand roll of honour : New Zealanders who have served their country in peace and war : 150 years, 1845-1995. Auckland, N.Z.: Roll of Honour Publications.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 60
• Taylor, N.W. The Roll of the ED and EM to New Zealanders (unpublished)
• Polaschek, A. NZ Long Service Awards (unpublished)
• New Zealand Veterinary Journal
• [Major Thomas A. Blake Photographs] PH-2014-69-1. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tamaki Paenga Hira.
• Homeward bound : S.S. Briton. As transport H.M.N.Z.T. No. 268 the S.S. "Briton" departed Tilbury, London, 17 June 1919.
• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• Nicol, C.G. (1921). The story of two campaigns: Official war history of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Wilson & Horton.