Forenames

Louis Edward AWMM

Surname

Barnett AWMM

Also known as

Barnett, Lewis Edward AWMM

Service number

• WWI N/N AWMM
• WWI 3/2913 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

24 Mar 1865 Military Personnel file

Post war occupation

Medical practitioner AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI N/N AWMM
• WWI 3/2913 AWMM

Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps AWMM

Medals and Awards

Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) AWMM
1918 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Medical practitioner Military Personnel file

Embarkation details

WW1

Last rank

WW1 Nov 1919 Military Personnel file Lieutenant Colonel/Military Military Personnel file
New Zealand Medical Corps Military Personnel file

Not listed in Nominal Roll. Did not embark.

First New Zealander to become a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (Source: DNZB).

Consulting surgeon for the NZEF and was the Senior Surgeon New Zealand Hospitla Cairo. Discharged and returned to New Zealand in 1917 at the urgent request of the New Zealand University, to resume his appointment as professor of surgery Otago University. AWMM

Death

1946 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7879435
  Sources Used
• DNZB
  http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b9/barnett-louis-edward
  Sources Used

References

• Pat Clarkson Medical Practitioner Research Project (January 2014 - March 2022). This project identified Medical Practioners who served in WWI.
• Wright-St Clair, R. (2013). Historia nunc vivat medical practitioners in New Zealand, 1840 to 1930. Christchurch, N.Z.: Cotter Medical History Trust.
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Unknown, photographer (1915-1916). [Agnes (Peggy) Williams photograph album]. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tāmaki Paenga Hira PH-2017-2-3.