Palmer Otto Spry

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Palmer Otto AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Spry AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 4/48 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Awarua Wireless Station, Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

• Mrs Isa M. Spry (wife), Station Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Isabel Lily Spry (wife), Station Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Married AWMM
• Pre 13 Dec 1915 AWMM Married AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 4/48 AWMM

Te urunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Unknown AWMM Wireless engineer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Honorary Captain/Military AWMM Engineers (Wireless) AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 Talune 13 December 1915 AWMM Vessel was Talune AWMM Honorary Captain/Military AWMM 2nd Samoan Relief Force AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

He was the eldest child of James & Hannah SPRY (nee Hauncken). They had five children – Palmer Otto (b1879), Ruby Aline (b1881), Dion Harold (b1883), Vera Sybilla (b1883) and Dora Jeffy (b1893).
In 1902, he married Miss Isabel Lily CRAIG. They had four children – Norman, Arthur, Edward and Stuart.

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Matenga

21 Aug 1952 Public Source

Rā i mate ai

21 Aug 1952

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Pakeke i te matenga

72

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Wāhi Mate

Auckland

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Ingoa o te urupā

Waikumete Cemetery

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Tohutoro kōhatu urupā

Ashes scattered - Eucalyptus Glade

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Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7820433
  Further Reference
• Casualty Department Nominal Rolls of Service Personnel Returning to New Zealand Index, Auckland Council Archives
  http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/CityArchives/FamilyHistory/ACC080/searchnominal.htm
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 684
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  22: 1
• McGeehan, Elizabeth B. Autographed wartime souvenir publication, 'Samoa' [ca. 1914 - 1915]. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library- Tāmaki Paenga Hira. MS-2004-43.
  Includes signature