Archibald James Merle Bonar

Forenames

Archibald James Merle AWMM

Surname

Bonar AWMM

Service number

• 803 AWMM
• 10/1116 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

24 Aug 1896 AWMM

Date of birth

24 August 1876

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Place of birth

Hokitika

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Vivian Bonar, Commission Agent, Hokitika, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• 803 AWMM
• 10/1116 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

• South Africa 3rd Contingent (Rough Riders), New Zealand Mounted Rifles AWMM
• WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
  HMNZT 7 or HMNZT 10 AWMM Vessel was Arawa or Limerick AWMM Sergeant Major AWMM Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM Main Body AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

• South Africa Lieutenant/Military AWMM
  New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 3rd Contingent (Rough Riders) AWMM
• WW1 Company Sergeant Major/Military AWMM
  Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM

Son of the Honorable James Alexander and Ella Margaret Bonar. Native of Hokitika, Greymouth.

His father was named James Alexander Bonar. AWMM

Death

28 Apr 1915 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey AWMM
• Hokitika War Memorial, Nelson College Scriptorium Roll of Honour
  Public - Peter - Researcher - 13 October 2017 - NZ History WW1 memorial images website and on site

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

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/R20518725
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
  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: 64
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Stowers, R. (2009). Rough riders at war : history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and information on all members of the 10 New Zealand contingents. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.