George Cuthbert Mayne

Forenames

George Cuthbert AWMM

Surname

Mayne AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/179 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Place of birth

Christchurch

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Birth notes

Son of James Boxer & Ada MAYNE

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Address before enlistment

WW1 Waimariri, Rutene Road, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs Myra Mayne (wife), Kaikoura, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

26 Aug 1914 AWMM Married AWMM
Myra Julia Whitcombe, St Mary's Church, Merivale, Christchurch AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/179 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Lawyer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 11 AWMM Vessel was Athenic AWMM Lieutenant/Military AWMM Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Captain/Military AWMM
Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM

Death

8 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  30 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Obituary

The sad intelligence was received yesterday afternoon that Captain G. C Mayne, who left New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force, had been killed in action at the Dardanelles Captain Mayne was a solicitor, and from March of last year till the date of his departure acted as managing clerk to Messrs de Lautour Barker, Stock and Matthews. He had seen a good deal of service with the Territorials at Nelson before coming to Gisborne, and with the Nelson volunteers joined a Canterbury regiment. Captain Mayne was in charge of the reliefs who came to the assistance of the Wellington Mounted Rifles when they were recently cut off. Shortly before leaving New Zealand Mr Mayne was married to a Christchurch young lady. The news of the death of such a gallant officer will be received with keen regret by his many friends in Gisborne

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GISBORNE TIMES, VOLUME XLV, ISSUE 4012, 19 AUGUST 1915, PAGE 5

Memorial name

• Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
• Marlborough War Memorial, 20 Seymour Street, Blenheim, 7201 AWMM
• Kaikoura War Memorial, 34 Esplanade, Kaikoura 7300 AWMM
• Kaikoura Anglican Church, 29 Torquay St, Kaikoura AWMM
• Marlborough Great War Memorial, WW1 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• St Peter's Anglican Church, Kaikoura AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21374227
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880503
  Further Reference
• For King and Empire, Sun, Volume II, Issue 477, 20 August 1915, p.6.
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=SUNCH19150820.2.38&srpos=67&e=-------100--1-byDA---2g+c+mayne--
  Sources Used
• New Zealand Lawyers Roll of Honour, New Zealand Law Society website
  http://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news-and-communications/people-in-the-law/obituaries/obituaries-list/george-cuthbert-mayne,-1883-1915
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/680208/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/680208
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 496
• 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
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.