Gerald Bernard Lynskey

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Gerald Bernard AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Lynskey AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 7/1094 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

18th September 1894

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 September 2025 - Military Record

Wāhi Whānau

Kaiapoi

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 September 2025 - Military Record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of William & Bridget LYNSKEY

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 September 2025 - Military Record

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Kaiapoi, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Bridget Lynskey (mother), Ohapuku, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 13 Jun 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 7/1094 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 13 Jun 1915-01 Aug 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 25 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti AWMM Trooper AWMM Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Gastritis AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Engineers, Field Troop AWMM

Matenga

22 Jul 1918 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of Disease AWMM

Urupā

Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel AWMM W. 89 AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Sapper Gerald Bernard Lynskey, who died on July 22 of gastritis, was a son of the late Mr W. Lynskey and Mrs W. Lynskey. Ohupuku. He was educated at the Ohoka and Kaiapoi District High Schools. He was twenty years of age when he volunteered for active service, being at the time engaged as a cadet in the Kaiapoi post office. He left with the Fifth Mounted Reinforcements; and served on the Gallipoli Peninsula until the evacuation. Then he returned to Egypt, and left with the mounted forces as a Signaller to cross the Sinai desert. Up to the time of his death he took part in every engagement in Egypt and Palestine, with the exception of three weeks spent in Cairo at the Imperial School, where he obtained his first-class Signaller’s certificate. His younger brother, Private Michael I. Lynskey, is in camp with the Forty-third Reinforcements.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 September 2025 - Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17853, 27 July 1918, Page 9

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10921320
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-412863.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/647454/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/647454
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 431
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• HMNZT 25. The Tahitian tatler : the unofficial organ of that portion of the Fifth Reinforcements on board H.M.N.Z.T. no. 25, Tahiti. (1915). Bombay, India: Printed by the Times Press for the Units of the Fifth New Zealand Reinforcements.