William Pearce

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

William AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Pearce AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 5/894 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

5th June 1887

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Wāhi Whānau

Auckland

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of the late Alexander &.Mary Ann Pearce,

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Te Kuiti, King Country, NZ

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Uri kiritahi

Mrs Mary Pearce (mother), Te Kuiti, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Single

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Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 5/894 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Bushman/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 01 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 49 or HMNZT 50 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Driver/Military AWMM 11th Reinforcements, Army Service Corps AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Private AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, 3 Company AWMM

William Pearce was the son of Mary Ann Pearce, of 78 Munro St., Seatoun, Wellington, New Zealand, and the late Alexander Pearce. Native of Thames.

Next of Kin: Mrs M. Pearce, Seatoun, Wellington (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

12 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Mrs Leo Doherty of the Coronation Hotel, has received advice that her brother, Private: W Pearce was killed in action on the 12th inst. Private W Pearce. left from Te Kuiti in the 11th Reinforcements, and was attached' to the Machine Gun Corps

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 2 June 2023 - ROLL OF HONOR.
POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME XLIV, ISSUE 14438, 26 OCTOBER 1917, PAGE 3

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 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/R20799949
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/848060/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/848060
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/3656
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  28: 24
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• The Surcingle : official organ of the Silent Sixth Rfcts, New Zealand Expdy Force. [At sea] : [Magazine Committee], 1915.