Edwin North

Forenames

Edwin AWMM

Surname

North AWMM

Service number

WWI 18841 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Methodist, Christian AWMM

Birth

9 Jun 1888 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Pre 06 Mar 1916 AWMM Kingsland Avenue, Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs Mary North (wife), Kingsland Avenue, Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 26 Jul 1916 AWMM Married/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 18841 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 06 Mar 1916 AWMM
Age  28 AWMM
Framemaker/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jul 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 59 or HMNZT 60 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata or Ulimaroa AWMM Private AWMM 15th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 9 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  10 stone 4 pounds AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Edwin North was the son of Lucy North of 7 Chatham St., Dominion Rd., Auckland, New Zealand, and the late William North; husband of Mary North, of Astley Avenue, New Lynn, Auckland. Native of Preston, England.

Next of Kin: Mrs M. North, Kingsland Ave, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

9 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM
• Mount Albert War Memorial Hall, 773 New North Road, Mount Albert Auckland 1025 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21381081
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1738155/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1738155
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  37: 6
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• 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.