William Louis McKenzie
I mate atu i te 4 Oct 1917
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 44619 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM Wellington Infantry Regiment AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- William Louis AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- McKenzie AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
- WWI 44619 AWMM
- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
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- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- S. McKenzie (father), Dunsandel, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
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Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
- 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM
- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 44619 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Railway Guard/Civilian AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW1 05 Apr 1917-10 Jun 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 81 AWMM Vessel was Devon AWMM Private AWMM 24th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Regiment, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Second son of Jessie McKenzie and Samuel McKenzie, of Killinchy, Canterbury
Holder of the certificate of the St John Ambulance Society
Reported wounded on 4 October 1917 during the fighting at Passchendaele and then later posted as missing before being declared killed in action AWMM - Private William Louis – 44619
William was born 1st May 1885 at Dunsandel, second son Samuel and Janet (known as Jessie) McKenzie. He was educated at the local school. At age of 19 years he joined the railway service and served mainly at Christchurch but finally at Wellington as a guard. He also studied for and passed the St. John Ambulance Society certicate. He had previous military experience with the “N” Battery at Lyttleton. William was described as “a young man of a fine, generous, sympathetic nature, highly respected by all who knew him as a friend, and esteemed by all his fellow workers in the railway service”. He was 5ft 8 ¾ in tall but his complexion and eye colour were not recorded.
William enlisted on16th November 1916 and was assigned to the 25th Reinforcementsof the Wellington Infantry Regiment, for which he had volunteered, but was then transferred to the 24th. He embarked from Wellington on 5th April 1917 on board the Devon via Capetown and arrived in Devonport on 10th June. Whilst on board he was admitted to hospital on 20th May with influenza being discharged 6 days later. He arrived in England 11 June 1917 and marched into Sling Camp. After a short leave in Glasgow he crossed to France on 6th July and into camp at Etaples on 9th. He joined the Battalion and was posted to 7th Company on 24th. On October 4th he was reported wounded and later was posted as missing, but finally was declared by a Court of Enquiry on 25th November to have been killed in action during the fighting at Passchendaele. His section commander at the time reported that he was with William when he was wounded in the forehead and that William spoke to him and he said “come over here I am dying” but that was the last he saw of him. His body was not found or identified so his name is inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing, Ypres. In New Zealand William is remembered on the Dunsandel War Memorial.Public - Lynda - Researcher - 22 January 2015 - Military Personal File, Papers Past used to compile this entry on the Soldiers of Selwyn Kete
- Second son of Jessie McKenzie and Samuel McKenzie, of Killinchy, Canterbury
Te matenga
- Matenga
- 4 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age 32 AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
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- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
- Obituary: The Star, 27 May 1918 AWMM
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
- Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM
Mea e whai hononga ai
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10925579
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/847872/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/847872
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- 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.
- Christchurch Star
- Information kindly provided by family
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
59: 9 - Christchurch Star
Obituary: The Star, 27 May 1918 - HMNZT 81 - Bulldogs' bark and Devon lyre : being the unofficial organ of the Right Wing, 24th Reinforcement. N.Z.E.F. Morgan, R.C. (Robert Carhampton), editor. Kiely, R.D. (Robert Dale), editor. -- Capetown : Printed by the Cape Times : 1917
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