Harry Pickering De Courcy
I whānau mai i te 14 Apr 1884 - I mate atu i te 9 May 1918
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 15348 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Decourcy AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Sergeant AWMM New Zealand Entrenching Battalion AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Harry Pickering AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- De Courcy AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
- Decourcy AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 15348 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
- Church of England, Christian AWMM
Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 14 Apr 1884 AWMM
- 14 Apr 1887 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- Mrs Louisa De Courcy (wife), 17 Dublin Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Pre 29 Jul 1916 AWMM Married AWMM
Married, 4 children AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 15348 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
- Military Medal (MM) AWMM
MM. For bravery in the field. London Gazette, 13 September 1918, p10779. AWMM - British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
- Victory Medal AWMM
- Military Medal (MM) AWMM
Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 05 Apr 1916 AWMM Sawmill hand/Civilian AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW1 29 Jul 1916-28 Sep 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 60 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Private AWMM 9th Reinforcements, 1st Battalion, E Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
6 foot AWMM - Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
- Height, WWI AWMM
6' 0" AWMM - Weight, WWI AWMM
178 lb AWMM
- Height, Unknown Period AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Sergeant AWMM
New Zealand Entrenching Battalion AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Son of James Reginald and Eliza De Courcy. Husband of Louisa De Courcy (nee Underwood); father of Clyde Pickering, Ella Louisa, Thelma Ruth and Gladys Mary of 17 Dublin Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
Name originally transcribed on the service record as Decourcy and corrected to De Courcy
Embarked Wellington, 29 July 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 28 September 1916, and marched into Sling Camp.
Proceeded overseas to France, 10 October 1916; taken on strength, 3rd Bn, NZ Rifle Brigade, in the field, 29 October 1916.
Found guilty, 15 January 1917, of being absent without leave: deprived of 14 days' pay, and forfeited additional 2 days' pay.
Appointed Temporary Corporal, 17 June 1917.
On leave to United Kingdom, 6 October 1917; appointed Temporary Sergeant, 13 October 1917; promoted Corporal, 13 October 1917; rejoined unit from field, 23 October 1917.
Admitted to 26th General Hospital, Camiers, 20 February 1918 (scabies); discharged to duty, 22 February 1918.
Admitted to 20th General Hospital, Camiers, 9 March 1918 (scabies); marched in to NZ Base Depot, Etaples, 18 March 1918.
Wounded in action, 9 May 1918; died of wounds same day.
Buried Vryverhoek Cemetery, 2 miles SW of Ypres.
Medal: Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Parents: James Reginald and Eliza De Courcy, New Zealand; Wife: Louisa De Courcy, 17 Dublin Street, Ponsonby, Auckland
Next of Kin: Mrs L. De Courcy, Ponsonby, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 9 May 1918 AWMM
Age 42 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Died of wounds AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
- Voormezeele Enclosure, West Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM XVI B 9 AWMM
- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- All Saints Church, 284 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby Auckland 1011 AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20996382
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/456473/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/456473
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- HMNZT 42. The blast : the magazine of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. (1917). London: John Long Ltd. ; [On board ship] : [H.M.N.Z.T. No. 42, Ulimaroa]
- 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.
- The ulima-roarer : a collection of wails & fishy stories, etc., from the Indian Ocean. (1916). [Indian Ocean]: [15th Reinforcements].
- The ulima-roarer : a collection of wails & fishy stories, etc., from the Indian Ocean. (1916). [Indian Ocean]: [15th Reinforcements].
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
37: 32 - NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
- Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
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