Walter Richard Mapston

Forenames

Walter Richard AWMM

Surname

Mapston AWMM

Also known as

Walter Richard Parfitt AWMM

Service number

WWI 36993 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs A.B. Mapston (wife), 23 Stonyhurst Street, Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 02 Oct 1918 AWMM Married AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 36993 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Motor Truck Driver/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 02 Oct 1918-05 Dec 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 111 AWMM Vessel was Matatua AWMM Private AWMM 43rd Reinforcements, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Pneumonia AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Walter Parfitt was the son of Mrs. Mapston (formerly Parfitt), of 103 Bradley Crescent, Shirehampton, England.

Name is recorded as Walter Richard Mapston in Nominal Rolls, as Walter Richard Parfitt in CWGC, Walter Richard Mapston a.k.a. Parfitt in Archives New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs A. B. Mapston, Riccarton (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

21 Feb 1919 AWMM
Age  37 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

Bristol (Shirehampton) Cemetery, England AWMM P. 1239. AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  http://www.cwgc.org
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10928402
  Further Reference

References

• HMNZT 111 - Camouflage : ye booke of ye Left Winge of ye 43rd New Zealand Reinforcement, made by Officers and Men. Colledge, H.B. (Herbert Broomfield), editor. Jordan, T. (Thomas), editor. -- [At sea] : [Magazine committee] : 1918.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  90: 14
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.