Charles William McGahan

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Charles William AWMM

Ingoa whānau

McGahan AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 4/211 AWMM
• WWI 25/29 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

30 Dec 1891 AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Mary McGahan (mother), Tuakau, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 05 Feb 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

• WWI 4/211 AWMM
• WWI 25/29 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Sapper AWMM Railway Engineers AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 05 Feb 1916-12 Mar 1916 AWMM
  HMNZT 42 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Sergeant AWMM 3rd Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Son of Thomas and Mary McGahan, of Harrisville Road, Tuakau.

Two sons, brothers Thomas Bernard McGahan (3140A) and Charles William McGahan (25/29) were killed in WW1.

Attended Auckland Grammar School.

Next of Kin: Mrs M. McGahan, Tuakau, Waikato (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Matenga

15 Sept 1916 AWMM
Age  24 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Obituary: Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. 1916. AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM
• Roll of Honour, Tuakau, WW1, 1914 - 1918, Tuakau Memorial Hall, George Street, Tuakau, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
• Tuakau War Memorial, Tuakau Services Cemetery, corner of Alexandra Redoubt Road and Roberts Road, Tuakau, Waikato, New Zealand AWMM
• Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Auckland Grammar School War Memorial, New Zealand AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10924199
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Tuakau War Memorial Hall
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tuakau-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Tuakau War Memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/tuakau-services-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1463538/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1463538
  Further Reference
• The New Zealand Heritage List. War Memorial, Auckland Grammar School, Mountain Road, Epsom, Auckland.
  http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/4472
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Unpublished papers: family papers.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  24: 1
• Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland Grammar School.
  Obituary: 1916, Third term. pp.14-15
• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• 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]
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 446
• 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
• Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.