Francis Morphet Twisleton

Taitara

• promoted to Major
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• Lieutenant
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Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Francis Morphet AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Twisleton AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Frank AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 9/622 AWMM
• WWI 9/662 AWMM
• SA War: # 318
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Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

17 Feb 1873 AWMM

Wāhi Whānau

Settle, Yorkshire, England

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

son of Thomas Twisleton and Mary Ann Morphet

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• WW1 Pre 21 Oct 1914 AWMM Kaharoa, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
• Pre SA War: Tihikora Rd, Wellington
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Mahi whai muri i te pakanga

Post SA War: Farm Worker in Marton area

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Uri kiritahi

• WW1 Mrs F.M. Twisleton (wife), Waimata Valley, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
• Pre SA War: father - Thomas Twisleton, Stead Hall, Burleigh in Wharfdale, Yorkshire
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Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 14 Dec 1914 AWMM Married AWMM
  Married, 2 children AWMM
• Pre SA War: Single
  12 May 1915 married Mrs May Wood (nee' Speedy) in HB, NZ
  Pre WWI: father of 2 daughters - Mary & Nancy
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Pakanga

• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• SA War, 1899-1902
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Kauhanga riri

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• SA War: Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Orange Free State & Diamond Hill
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Te Ope o Tū / te peka

• Army AWMM
• SA War: NZMR 2nd Contingent 3 & 4 Coy; WWI: NZ Maori Pioneer Btn & NZRB
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Nama Hōia

• WWI 9/622 AWMM
• WWI 9/662 AWMM
• SA War: # 318
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Urunga ki te ope taua

• New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM
• New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM
• SA War: 1901-1902; WWI: 1914-1917
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Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Military Cross (MC) AWMM
  For distinguished service in the field. London Gazette 9 February 1916 AWMM
• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Whakangungu ope taua

Pre WWI: SA War 2nd Cngt & Legion of Frontiersmen

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Te urunga

• WW1 21 Oct 1914 AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM
• South Africa Farmer/Civilian Ministry for Culture and Heritage
• SA War: 19 Jan 1900 at Wellington
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Pakeke i te whakaurunga

SA War: 27 yrs; WWI: 41 yrs

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Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka

Pre SA War: Farm Worker

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Taipitopito ekenga waka

• South Africa 20 Jan 1900 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
  Waiwera Ministry for Culture and Heritage Vessel was Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter AWMM Private Ministry for Culture and Heritage Otago Mounted Rifles Ministry for Culture and Heritage 2nd Reinforcements AWMM
• WW1 14 Dec 1914 AWMM
  HMNZT 13 or HMNZT 14 or HMNZT 15 AWMM Vessel was Waiwera AWMM Lieutenant/Military AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 2nd Contingent AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 2nd Contingent AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded Ayun Kara on 14 November 1917, and died the next day AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Major/Military AWMM
Auckland Mounted Rifles AWMM

Matenga

15 Nov 1917 AWMM
Age  44 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

• Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel AWMM M.4. AWMM
• Ramier Cemetery Palestine AWMM

Pānui Matenga

• Obituary: Auckland Weekly News, 29 November 1917, p. 20 AWMM
• DEATH OF CAPTAIN TWISLETON. Advice was received last evening announcing that Captain F. M. Twisleton, who was reported in our last issue;, to have been wounded had died of wounds received in action in France. The announcement of the death of Captain Twisleton will be received with deep regret locally, and much sympathy will be extended towards his wife and two children, who are now in England. As mentioned |Previously, Captain Twisleton was farming in the Waimata Valley prior to enlisting with a body of local Frontiersmen, of whom he was the head executive officer for the Dominion when he left for camp. Wounded at Gallipoli he also suffered severely from, illness, but on his recovery joined up with the Pioneers, with whom he has rendered distinguished service. As a man and soldier, Captain Twisleton was held in the highest respect and it is generally. understood that on being drafted to the Otago Mounted Rifles with the second reinforcements he declined promotion in order to remain with the Frontiersmen who accompanied him from Gisborne.
  Born in Yorkshire, he was about 50 years of age, and all associated with him will morn the loss of a gallant comrade.
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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

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  http://www.cwgc.org
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22014486
  Further Reference
• Stone, A. WW1: Fearless horseman loved adventure. New Zealand Herald (11 May 2015).
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11446368
  Further Reference
• Wikidata Entity
  http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5481959
  Further Reference
• DNZB Biography (Te Ara)
  http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3t47/twisleton-francis-morphet
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Ngā tuhinga

• Information kindly provided by family
• Boyack, N. (1989). Behind the lines : the lives of New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. Wellington, N.Z.: Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 740
• Information kindly provided by family
• Twisleton, M. (2009). Letters from the front: World War 1. Gisborne, N.Z.: Dick Thisleton.
• Auckland Weekly News
  Obituary: 29 November 1917, p. 20
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 5: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• 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.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Nicol, C.G. (1921). The story of two campaigns: Official war history of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Wilson & Horton.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.