Ronald Gowland

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Ronald AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Gowland AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

• Rowland AWMM
• Roland AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 13/687 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi Whānau

Waikari, Canterbury, S.I.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 May 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of John & Emily GOWLAND

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 May 2023 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Clevedon, Franklin, New Zealand AWMM
• Coachman for Holliday & Hollaway in Clevedon
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 May 2023 - Military Record

Uri kiritahi

WW1 John Gowland (father), Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 14 Dec 1914 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 13/687 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 14 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 13 or HMNZT 14 or HMNZT 15 AWMM Vessel was Verdala or Willochra or Knight of the Garter AWMM Trooper AWMM Auckland Mounted Rifles AWMM 2nd Reinforcements AWMM

Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito

• Captured by the Turks AWMM
• WW1 POW - Constantinople AWMM
  8 Oct 1915 AWMM
• WW1 POW - Gallipoli AWMM
  8 Oct 1915 AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of sickness 25/8/1915 as POW AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Trooper AWMM
Auckland Mounted Rifles AWMM

Son of Mr. and Mrs J. Gowland, of 85, Cookham Street, Spreydon, Christchurch

On 10 August 1915 Trooper Gowland was captured by Turkish Forces at Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli, Turkey. He died while he was a POW held by the Turks.

Name is spelled variously, Ronald on the Nominal Roll; Rowland in Pugsley and BDM list a Roland Gowland son of Emily and John Gowland born 1895

Next of Kin: Mr J. Gowland, Cobham St, Spreydon (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

25 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Urupā

Haidar Pasha Cemetery, Haidar Pasha, Turkey AWMM II. J. 5 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Trooper Ronald Gowland (Auckland Mounted Rifles), reported: missing and believed to have been, killed, was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Gowland, Canterbury, and brother of Mrs Everitt and Mr W. Gowland,' of Palmerston North. He was 20 years of age and was born in Canterbury, and he went to school at Tiniroto. After leaving school he was employed for some years on his grandfather's estate at Gisborne, to gain experience in sheep farming. Trooper Gowland was a keen Territorial, and enlisted in the Second Reinforcements

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 May 2023 - POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME XLII, ISSUE 13789, 15 SEPTEMBER 1915, PAGE 6

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Clevedon First World War Memorial AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16787690
  Further Reference
• Auckland Mounted Rifles, Roll of Honour - Gallipoli
  https://www.sooty.nz/AMRGallipoli.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/427919/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/427919
  Further Reference
• Prisoners of War - Prisoners of War in Turkey, reports of treatment (1919). Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R10701387)
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10701387
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Pugsley, C. (1995). ANZAC : the New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Hodder Moa Beckett Publishers.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 274
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Prisoners of War Taken by the Enemy during (the) Period August 1914 to November 1918 [Listed by Surname in Alphabetical Order], Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R26112295)
• Prisoners of War - Prisoners of War in Turkey, reports of treatment (1919). Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R10701387)
• 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.