Alfred George Libeau
I whānau mai i te 28 Dec 1880 - I mate atu i te 17 Sept 1916
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 11493 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Alfred George AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Libeau AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWI 11493 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
- 28 Dec 1880 AWMM
- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- WW1 Mrs Annie Elizabeth Libeau (mother), Bruntwood, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 11493 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 Farmer/Civilian AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW1 01 May 1916-09 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 51 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Private AWMM 12th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Alfred Libeau was the son of Theodore and Elizabeth Libeau, Matangi. He was the husband of Annie E. Libeau, Matangi.
Next of Kin: Mrs A E. Libeau, Matangi Waikato (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM - Unit: 1st Bn. Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F.
Rank: Private
Name: Alfred George LIBEAU
No: 11493
Occupation & employer: self-employed farmer
Religion: Wesleyan
Date and Place of Birth: 28 December 1880, Christchurch
Next of Kin: Mrs Annie Libeau (née POYNTER, wife), Matangi.
Description on Enlistment: Apparent age 35 years, 5ft 5½ ins tall, fresh complexion, brown hair, blue eyes
Parents:
Service: Son of the late Theodore and Elizabeth Libeau, of Matangi; husband of Annie Elizabeth Libeau, of Matangi, Waikato. Married at Whatawhata, 26 July 1904. Uncle of Eric John Libeau (13/2339, also died in war action)
Embarked Wellington for Suez 1 May 1916
Arrived Suez, 9 June 1916
Embarked Alexandria for England per Ivernia, 26 July 1916
Disembarked Southampton 7 August 1916
Left Sling for France, 17 August 1916
Etaples, 21 August
Joined Unit, Neuville, 1 September 1916
Killed in action in the field [Battle of the Somme] in France, 17 September 1916, Aged 35.
Buried Caterpillar Valley New Zealand Memorial, Longueval, Somme. Caterpillar Valley Cemetery now contains 5,569 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 3,796 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 32 casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to three buried in McCormick's Post Cemetery whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. Caterpillar Valley New Zealand Memorial commemorates more than 1,200 officers and men of the New Zealand Division who died in the Battles of the Somme in 1916, and whose graves are not known.Public - Jan - Researcher - 13 October 2018 - WW1 Enlistment records, Archives NZ, https://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/, Commonwealth War Graves Commission [www.cwgc.org], Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/, and NZBDM online.
- Alfred Libeau was the son of Theodore and Elizabeth Libeau, Matangi. He was the husband of Annie E. Libeau, Matangi.
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 17 Sept 1916 AWMM
Age 35 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
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- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM
- Cambridge War Memorial, Queen Street, Cambridge, New Zealand AWMM
- Hamilton Memorial Park, Memorial Drive, Hamilton East, 3216 AWMM
- Hautapu RSA Memorial 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, Leamington, Cambridge AWMM
- Cambridge Cenotaph, Victoria St, Cambridge 3434 AWMM
- Cambridge World War One War Memorials AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10919441
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1463484/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1463484
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- Information kindly provided by family
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
30: 4 - Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
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