Edgar Harvey Robertson

Forenames

Edgar Harvey AWMM

Surname

Robertson AWMM

Also known as

Edgar Hervey Robertson AWMM

Service number

WWI 28801 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

20 Aug 1896 Kiwi Jocks Research

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs E. Robertson (mother), Lawrence Street, Herne Bay, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 11 Oct 1916 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 28801 AWMM

Military service

College Rifles AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 28 Jun 1916 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM
Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 11 Oct 1916-28 Dec 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 67 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Private AWMM 18th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 8.5 inches AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Blue AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Dark AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  136 pounds AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Edgar Robertson was the son of John and Evelyn E Robertson of Orkney, Scotland

Attested in Trentham

Attended King's College 1911-12

Registered for Compulsory Military training under the Defence Act 1909 with Kings College

Member of the College Rifles Rugby Football Club

Typo on the King's College; honour roll gives his name as Edgar Hervey Robertson.

Next of Kin: Mrs E. Robertson, Herne Bay, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

24 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Wieltje Farm Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM A32 AWMM

Memorial name

• Roll of Honour, College Rifles, Rugby Union Football & Sports Club, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM
• Howick and Pakuranga War Memorial, Stockade Hill, Howick, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Howick Roll of Honour AWMM
• All Saints Church, 284 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby Auckland 1011 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• College Rifles Park, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM
• King's College Memorial Chapel at King's College, Otahuhu, Auckland, World War 1 Roll of Honour.
  Public - King's College Archive - Researcher - 15 May 2026 - King's College Memorial Chapel

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20806639
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage Howick & Pakuranga War Memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/howick-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage Howick & Pakuranga War Memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/howick-first-world-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Howick Roll of Honour Index, Auckland Council Archives
  http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/CityArchives/FamilyHistory/HBC003/searchhowick.htm
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/451522/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/451522
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/3916
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  43: 5
• King's College, Auckland. (1918). King's College, Auckland : the Great War, 1914-18. Auckland, N.Z.: The College.
• 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
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Kiwi Jocks or Scottish-born New Zealand soldiers in the NZEF. Information kindly provided by Andrew Nixon, Scotland between 2009 and 2010.
• 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.
• HMNZT 67. Long Trail. (1916). On board ship:Published by the Right Wing of the 18th Reinforcements.