Richard S. AWMM

May AWMM

• Richard May AWMM
• Dick Public - Michelle - 23 February 2016 - Family records

WWI 9/1336 AWMM

Male AWMM

Church of England, Christian AWMM

• 11 June 1892 AWMM Assam, India AWMM
  "Full Blooded Parsee (Indian) AWMM
• 11 June 1892 Public Source

11 June 1892 Public - Michelle - 23 February 2016 - Military Personnel File

Assam, India Public - Michelle - 23 February 2016 - Military Personnel File

Son of a British tea planter and local Indian woman. Public - Michelle - 23 February 2016 - PhD research and website of Jane McCabe, Otago University (www.kalimpongkids.org.nz)

Unknown AWMM Mossburn, New Zealand AWMM

• W. Harrison (friend), Dipton, Southland, New Zealand AWMM
• Former employer Public - Michelle - 23 February 2016 - Family records

Pre 14 August 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

• Battle of the Somme AWMM
• 1915-1916 Gallipoli AWMM

Army AWMM

WWI 9/1336 AWMM

British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

WW1 Unknown AWMM Shepherd/Civilian AWMM
Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Shepherd Public - Michelle - 23 February 2016 - Military Personnel File

WW1 14 Aug 1915-19 September 1915 AWMM from AWMM to Suez, Egypt AWMM

HMNZT 28 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Trooper AWMM Special Squadrons AWMM 6th Reinforcements AWMM

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

15 September 1916 AWMM
Somme, Northern France AWMM

Killed in Action AWMM

Signaller R.S. May

Advice has been received that Signaller Richard S. May, late of Dipton was killed while in action in France on September 15. He was born at Assam, and was educated at Darjeeling, Northern India. He was on active service on Gallipoli Peninsula for some considerable time, and was there at the time of evacuation. Afterwards, while in Egypt, he was offered the position of interpreter to the Indian troops, with the rank of Sergeant, but declined promotion and went on to France with his unit. He left New Zealand with the 6th Reinforcements" - "The Roll of Honour", Soutland Times, issue 17854, 4 October 1916. AWMM

Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R21374155
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1463615/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1463615
  Further Reference

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
  Page No: 495 AWMM
• McCabe, J. ‘An Ideal Life: Anglo-Indians in the NZEF’, in Katie Pickles, David Monger and Sarah Murray (eds) Endurance and the First World War: Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 196-214. AWMM
• Southland Times AWMM
  "The Roll of Honour", issue 17854, 4 October 1916. AWMM
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait AWMM
• Leckie, J. (2021). Invisible : new zealand's history of excluding kiwi-indians. New Zealand: Massey University Press. AWMM
• Roche, M. and Venkateswar, S. "Neither Natural-born British Subjects Nor Aliens: Indians in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force" in Crawford, J., Littlewood, David, & Watson, James. (2016). Experience of a lifetime : People, personalities and leaders in the First World War. Auckland, New Zealand : Massey University Press. 2016. AWMM