William Alfred Mason Dray

I whānau mai i te 23 Sept 1888 - I mate atu i te 26 Aug 1918

Nama Hōia: WWI 62276 AWMM
Ingoa kārangaranga: A.W.M. Dray AWMM
Te Ope o Tū / te peka: Army AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga: WW1 Rifleman AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion AWMM
Pakanga: World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

William Alfred Mason Dray — Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1918 - No known copyright restrictions No Known Copyright Restrictions

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Son of Fredrick and Letitia Dray, of Auckland; husband of Elsie Dray, of Leamington, Cambridge

Listed as A.W.M. Dray on the Cambridge War Memorial

Marched in and posted to C Company, 30th Reinforcements with rank of private, Trentham Camp, Upper Hutt, 26 July 1917. Transferred to C Company, 31st Reinforcements, 18 August 1917. Transferred to Featherston Camp Details, Featherston Camp, Wairarapa, 24 October 1917. Proceeded overseas from Wellington with 33rd Reinforcements on board HMNZT 'Athenic', 31 December 1917.
Disembarked Glasgow, Scotland, 25 February 1918; marched into No 4 Camp and taken on strength, Composite (Canterbury & Otago) Reserve Battalion, Larkhill, Wiltshire, 26 February 1918. Marched out to New Zealand Rifle Brigade Reserve Depot, Brocton, Staffordshire, 28 February 1918.
Proceeded overseas to France, 28 April 1918.
Disembarked and marched in to New Zealand Infantry and General Base Depot, Etaples, France, 30 April 1918. Taken on strength 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and posted to D Company, in the field, 3 May 1918.
Admitted to No 3 New Zealand Field Ambulance, in the field, 2 July 1918 (sick); discharged from No 3 New Zealand Field Ambulance and rejoined unit, in the field, 8 July 1918.
Reported by Battalion headquarters on 31 August 1918 to have gone missing in action on 26 August 1918; previously reported missing, now reported on 7 September 1918 by Reverend J H Smith (attached to 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade), to have been killed in action and buried near Bapaume on 26 August 1918.

Parents: Fredrick and Letitia Dray, Auckland; Wife: Elsie Dray, of Leamington, Cambridge

Next of Kin: Mrs E. Dray, Leamington, Waipa (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1))

His signature appears on a World War II signature tablecloth begun about 1940 by Mrs Emma (Pat) Simmonds and her mother, Mrs Ansell, and completed after the war. The cloth includes signatures of New Zealand and British service personnel, US personnel based at Waikaraka Camp, and others. Its embroidery also includes a reference to 24th Army Troops Company, NZE, Suva, Fiji, 1942. Collection of Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, 1999.76.1. AWMM

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William Alfred Mason Dray