Bramwell Gladstone Henry Cross

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Bramwell Gladstone Henry AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Cross AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Gladstone Henry Cross AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 23/396 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1896 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Papatowai, Catlin's, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mr Henry Cross (father), Bluff, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 23/396 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 30 or HMNZT 31 or HMNZT 32 or HMNZT 33 or HMNZT 34 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Rifleman AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Accidental Death, Cause of Death AWMM
Accidental death on active service AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Son of Henry and Jane Cross, of Bluff, New Zealand.

Enlisted as Gladstone Henry Cross. Named on the Bluff Memorial as B.G.H. Cross. Named on the Birth Register as Bramwell Gladstone Cross. Probate, Wellington for Bramwell Gladstone Cross 1917 AWMM

Matenga

6 Apr 1916 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Rā i mate ai

6 May 1916

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Te momo matenga

Accidental Death AWMM

Tuhipoka mō te matenga

Accidentally killed by premature detonation of a grenade at a training ground.
Correct date of death 6 May 1916.

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Urupā

Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM V. C. 6. AWMM

Tohutoro maumaharatanga

CWGC

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

Bluff War Memorial AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21899309
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commmission
  https://www.cwgc.org/
  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: 164
• Information kindly provided by family
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 30 - The Periscope : unofficial mouthpiece of the 1st Battalion N.Z. Rifle Brigade (Earl of Liverpool's Own) and Divisional Ammunition Column -- At sea : Officers & men of the Reinforcement : 1915