Arthur Girdwood

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Arthur AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Girdwood AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 57821 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

28 Feb 1887 AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW1 Mrs A. Girdwood (wife), Drury, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

26 Jun 1917 AWMM Married AWMM
Mary Tina Bremner AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 57821 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/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, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Son of Arthur and Bertha Girdwood, of Drury; husband of Mary Tina Girdwood also of Drury

Remembered on the Drury-Runciman Memorial

Next of Kin: Mr A. Girdwood, Drury, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

8 Oct 1918 AWMM
Age  31 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Naves Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM I. F. 18 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Memorial, Selwyn Chapel at Christ Church (Anglican), 40 Coles Crescent, Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial Stone, Selwyn Chapel at Christ Church (Anglican), 40 Coles Crescent, Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Drury-Runciman Memorial, near Drury Hall, New Zealand AWMM
• 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/R16786472
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Drury Runciman War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/drury-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/307815/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/307815
  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: 11
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• 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.