Joseph Henry Edwards

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Joseph Henry AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Edwards AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 59196 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi Whānau

Wellington, NZ

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Charles Francis & Emily EDWARDS of Gisborne

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Telegraph Operator of 477 Childers Road, Gisbonre

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Uri kiritahi

C.F. Edwards (father), 477 Childers Road, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 59196 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Telegraphist/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 16 Nov 1917-07 Jan 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 97 AWMM Vessel was RMS Tahiti AWMM Private AWMM 31st Reinforcements, Specialist Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Joseph Edwards was the son of Charles and Emily Edwards, of 31 Delantour Rd., Kaiti, Gisborne, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mr C. F. Edwards, Gisborne (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

1 Oct 1918 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Flesquieres Hill British Cemetery, Nord, France AWMM VIII H. 13. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

The following consoling letter concerning the death of her son has been received by Mrs C. F. Edwards of Bayley road, Gisborne, under date France, October 8, 1918: —I am sorry to have to tell you of the death of your son, Private J. H. Edwards, who was killed in action during the operations in the vicinity of Cambrai. He and another signaller were engaged in repairing a break in the telephone line when a shell came and caught both of the lads. Yours was a fine boy, and at the time of his death he was in charge of a section of company signallers. As the signal officer of this battalion I always found him a good reliable man, and his coolness under fire was always an inspiring example to his mates. Our padre paid him the last solemn rites, and gave your boy a Christian burial in a British cemetery near the village of Marsiernes. I trust you will accept my expression of sympathy, for I know your loss. Kindly take comfort in the assurance that your boy gave his life because he loved his people, and died to save them from the tyranny of an unfeeling foe. Believe me, Yours sincerely (signed), G. C. Laws, Lieut.

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21000347
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/336755/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/336755
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  75: 19
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 97. (1918). From Maoriland to Blighty: Being the browsings of Brown’s cows: S.S. Tahiti, February 1918 (31st Reinforcements). Bennett Brothers, Military and General Printers.