Roy Leslie Alexander

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Roy Leslie AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Alexander AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI MB1839 AWMM
• WWI 1839 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

17 Jan 1897 AWMM

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Thomas A. Alexander of Ramarama, Drury

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 15 June 2025 - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193836537/roy-leslie-alexander

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

New Zealand

Public - Kaia - Other Relative - 21 April 2015 - Nz kiwi

Uri kiritahi

• WW1 Thomas A. Alexander (father), Ramarama via Drury, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Father
  Public - Kaia - Other Relative - 21 April 2015 - Father

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 15 Nov 1916 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM
• Single
  Public - Kaia - Other Relative - 21 April 2015 - Single

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Navy AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI MB1839 AWMM
• WWI 1839 AWMM

Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga

• Royal Naval Auxiliary Patrol (Motor-Boat Service) AWMM
• HMS Hermione AWMM
• Victory X CMB16 (Coastal Motor Boat 16) AWMM
• HMS Arrogant (Coastal Motor Boat 19) AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) AWMM
DSM. London Gazette 23/7/1918 p. 8592 no. 30807. Awarded for action 22/23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge and Ostend on the Arrogant (CMB19) AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 10 Nov 1916 AWMM Engineer/Military AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 15 Nov 1916-30 Jan 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 68 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Motor Mechanic/Military AWMM HMS Hermione AWMM Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded in Action, 23 April 1918 NP4018. AWO 2428/25.7.18 AWMM
• Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
  Peritonitis and heart failure following wounds received in action AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Chief Motor Mechanic/Military AWMM
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Coastal Motor Boats AWMM

Matenga

21 Aug 1918 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Southend-on-Sea (Sutton Road) Cemetery, England AWMM F.5847 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Papakura - Karaka War Memorial, Great South Road, Papakura, New Zealand AWMM
• Drury-Runciman Memorial, near Drury Hall, New Zealand AWMM
• St David's Church, 68 Khyber Pass Road, Grafton, Auckland 1023 AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/357338/roy-leslie-alexander/
  Sources Used
• Laine Moger, 'WWI soldier's Auckland family told little about their 21-year-old sons death, 100 years ago', www.stuff.co.nz, 20 April 2018
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/103250168/family-of-wwi-soldier-were-informed-by-letter-their-21-yo-son-was-dead-the-centenary
  Further Reference
• White ensign : Royal New Zealand Navy Museum heritage journal. Auckland, N.Z.: Navy Museum. Digital copy
  http://www.navymuseum.mil.nz/about-us/whiteensignmagazine.htm
  Sources Used
• National Archives (UK). Military History resources.
  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/militaryhistory/?WT.ac=MHhomepage
  Sources Used
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Papakura-Karaka War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/papakura-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Keyes, R. (1919). Ostend and Zeebrugge: April 23: May 10 1918. London, U.K.: Oxford University Press. Digital copy Internet Archive
  http://www.archive.org/details/ostendzeebruggea00keye
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online: Drury Runciman memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/drury-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• 'The Roll of Honour' Pukekohe and Waiuku Times, 30 August 1918
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PWT19180830.2.10
  Further Reference
• 'Roy Leslie Alexander' Record of Service, National Archives
  https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7711415
  Further Reference
• National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy. (n.d.). Roll of honour World War One.
  https://navymuseum.co.nz/explore/by-themes/world-war-one/roll-of-honour/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• 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.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  45: 22
• The New Zealand Herald
  Ceremony at Papakura: fallen soldiers honoured - address by the Governor. (1921, 6 June). New Zealand Herald.
• White ensign: Royal New Zealand Navy Museum heritage journal
  Wynd, M. (2008, Autumn). Chief Motor Mechanic: Roy Alexander. White Ensign. p. 11
• Attestation papers are held at Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton
• McEwan, J. (1995). Auckland Rockies : a history of Auckland's Naval Reserves from 1858-1995. Auckland, N.Z.: Pyramid Press.
• Maxwell, G. S. (n.d.). The Motor Launch Patrol. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited.
• Terry, C. S. (1919). Ostend and Zeebrugge April 23: May 10, 1918. The Dispatches of Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. And other Narratives of the Operations. London, New York [etc.]: Oxford University Press, H Milford.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Wright, G. C. (2015). For king and country : the biographies of New Zealand’s WW1 naval casualties. [Auckland] : [Gerry Wright].