Peter Reginald McConville

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Peter Reginald AWMM

Ingoa whānau

McConville AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 20202 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi Whānau

Gisborne

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 May 2023 - Military Record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Michael & Ellen McCONNELL of Co. Clare, Ireland. - late of Gisborne, NZ

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 May 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/peter-reginald-mcconville & Gisborne Cemetery Records

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Occ. Accountant of Gisborne

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 May 2023 - Military Record

Uri kiritahi

Mrs E. McConville (mother), 61 O'Neill Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Single

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 25 May 2023 - Military Record

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 20202 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Accountant/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 19 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 61 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Rifleman AWMM 10th Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, F Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion, A Company AWMM

Peter McConville was the son of Ellen and the late Michael McConville, of Co. Clare, Ireland.

Attended Sacred Heart College 1904-07

Next of Kin: Mrs E. McConville, Jervois Rd, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

18 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Bois-Guillaume Communal Cemetery Extension, Seine-Maritime, France AWMM A. 17B. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

News has been received locally of the death in action of Rifleman P. R. McConville, who was killed on June 18. Rifleman Peter McConville was veil known in Gisborne, where he was at one time employed by Mr. D. J. Barry at the brewery, and later was in business for himself as an accountant. He was prominent in athletics locally, being a member of the Gisborne Rowing Club and the Gisborne Boxing Association. He left Gisborne with the 16th Reinforcements. At the time of. his death in action he was about 20 years of age. He was the third son of Mrs. M. McConville , now of Ponsonby, Auckland, and was educated at the Gisborne District High School, and at the Collage of the Sacred. Heart, Auckland

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 4 January 2024 - GISBORNE TIMES, VOLUME XLVIII, ISSUE 4597, 28 JUNE 1917, PAGE 4

Ingoa maumaharatanga

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/R10923092
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/121732/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/121732
  Further Reference
• Members of the NZEF 1914-1918 with a next-of-kin address in Ireland or who were born in Ireland.
  https://www.sooty.nz/irish1nzef.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

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.
  38: 32
• 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. 2: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 42. The blast : the magazine of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. (1917). London: John Long Ltd. ; [On board ship] : [H.M.N.Z.T. No. 42, Ulimaroa]
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.