Donald Petrie Simson

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Donald Petrie AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Simson AWMM

Nama Hōia

• South African N/N AWMM
• WWI 4/642A AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Pakanga

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

• South African N/N AWMM
• WWI 4/642A AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) AWMM
  KBE. 1939, Queen's Birthday Honours List AWMM
• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) (Military) AWMM
• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) Twice AWMM

Te urunga

• South Africa Accountant/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 23 Sep 1914 AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• South Africa Lieutenant/Military AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 8th Contingent, North Island Regiment, D Squadron AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles AWMM
• WW1 Captain/Military AWMM Field Engineers (British Section) AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
May 1915, serious gunshot wound to neck and face at Gallipoli. Taken to Heliopolis; invalided to New Zealand. AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 9 Jun 1916 AWMM Captain/Military AWMM

Matenga

1961 AWMM
Age  82 AWMM

Rā i mate ai

20 Jan 1961

Public - Sandra - Researcher - 18 December 2018 - Waipu Museum

Pānui Matenga

SIMSON, Captain Sir Donald Petrie. K.B.E. On January 20, 1961, at a private hospital; in his 83rd year. Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St Michaels Church, Remuera, tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10.30am, to be followed by private interment at Howick. (NZ Herald)

Public - Sandra - Researcher - 18 December 2018 - Waipu Museum

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20523344
  Further Reference
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7817538
  Further Reference
• Original paper military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880849
  Further Reference
• On Service. Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 52, 30 August 1916, Page 4
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19160830.2.31
  Further Reference
• A Recent Honour. Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 147, 24 June 1939, Page 11
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19390624.2.73&srpos=
  Further Reference
• To rejoin his regiment. Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 69, 19 September 1916, Page 5
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19160919.2.33&srpos=
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online. South African War.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war
  Further Reference
• The birth of the RSA
  http://www.rsa.org.nz/review/art2006march/article_1.htm
  Further Reference
• Sir Donald Simson. Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 21, 24 July 1941, Page 9 portrait
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19410724.2.54.1&dliv=&e=-------10--1----0wellington+taxi--
  Further Reference
• Archives NZ: W5515|51|5095
  http://archives.govt.nz/research/guides/war
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Cook, P. (2008). All formed up : a history of Wellington Returned & Services' Association, 1916-2007. Wellington, N.Z.: Ngaio Press.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 5: Includes portrait
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.