Joseph McCreanor

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Joseph AWMM

Ingoa whānau

McCreanor AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/4045 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1 Dec 1884 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW1 Auckland AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW1 Mrs M. McCreanor (mother), 6 Barretta Street, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12/4045 AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) AWMM
  London Gazette 01/01/1918 AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Railway porter/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 04 Mar 1916-08 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 47 or HMNZT 48 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Private AWMM 10th Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Joseph McCreanor was the son of Robert and Margaret McCreanor, of Belfast, Ireland.

Next of Kin: Mr R. McCreanor, Burwood, Christchurc (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

1 Sept 1918 AWMM
Age  35 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Bancourt British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM I. B. Headstone 9. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland Railway Station, Te Taou Crescent, Auckland 1010. AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. 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/R10923256
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880399
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/206063/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/206063
  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
• 1 September 2024. Remembering on behalf of our extended family.
  Public - Priscilla - Other relative - 31 August 2024 - Documented family history.

Ngā tuhinga

• Information kindly provided by family
• 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.
  26: 9
• 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.
• 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.