Sydney Grey Davis

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Sydney Grey AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Davis AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 13430 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

• 29 Aug 1895 AWMM
• 29 Aug 1895 Public Source

Rā i whānau mai ai

29 August 1895

Public - Peter - Researcher - 16 October 2017 - Military records

Wāhi Whānau

Greymouth

Public - Peter - Researcher - 16 October 2017 - Military records

Uri kiritahi

• Francis G. Davis (father), Tahuna Post-office, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM
• Francis George DAVIS (father, 1865-1934)
  Catherine Eliza DAVIS (née GRIFFITHS, 1867-1949) mother
  Public - Hamilton - Researcher - 29 March 2015 - Marriage and birth certs.

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 27 May 1916 AWMM Single AWMM
• Brother = George Henry DAVIS (1897-1973),
  38265 Corporal, NZ Machine Gun Battalion, WW1.
  Public - Hamilton - Researcher - 29 March 2015 - Military personnel files, family relatives.
  See also Sydney's biography now on The Prow (Nelson Public Library website).

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 13430 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Banker/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 27 May 1916-27 Jul 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 55 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Private AWMM 13th Reinforcements, J Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Matenga

27 Jul 1917 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Halluin Communal Cemetery AWMM B. 10. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Memorial plaque, Bank of New Zealand (Officers of the BNZ who laid down their lives in the Great War AD 1914-1919), BNZ Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial gates, Stoke, Community Hall, Main Road, Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM
• Nelson Cenotaph Anzac Park, Tahunanui War Memorial
  Public - Peter - Researcher - 16 October 2017 - on site

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20996082
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Casualty form.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20180129035740/http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:12489
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/279122/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/279122
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/983
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• Bank of New Zealand officers who enlisted for military service in the First World War. Research completed by Paul Hickford (2014-2017).
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  33: 16
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Auckland War Memorial Museum Library catalogue. War series transcripts. (1990's).
• HMNZT 55 - The Crusader : official organ of Thirteenth Reinforcements aboard H.M.N.Z.T. No.55 -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode Ballantyne and Co. Ltd.