Matthias Beck

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Matthias AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Beck AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 10/2855 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Lutheran, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1 Jul 1887 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Urenui, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Mrs Victoria Rowe (friend), Urenui, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 10/2855 AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Military Medal and bar (MM*) AWMM
  M.M.: London Gazette 16 August 1917, p8429, Rec No 962 | Bar M.M.: London Gazette 21 August 1917, p8642, Rec No 1030 AWMM
• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM
Age  28 AWMM
Bush contractor/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 09 Oct 1915-30 Nov 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 32 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 7.5 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  158 pounds AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded June 1917 AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Son of Matthew (Mathias) Petersen Beck and Anna Maria Beck originally of Denmark. Brother of John Beck (2348) who died in the South African War.

Next of Kin: Mrs M. Beck, Park Island Inste., Napier (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

4 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  30 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22274029
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Casualty form.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20180129035740/http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:12355
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Casualty form.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20180129035740/http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/passchendaele/view?pid=archives:12355
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/847266/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/847266
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/167
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• 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.
• Information kindly provided by family
• 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.
  Vol1: 45
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• Dry Rations, or, The Aparima Apparition : with which is incorporated the Waikanae wash-out and The Tauherenikau trumpeter : unofficial organ of the 7th Rfts, Transport No. 32
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.