Lionel Matthew Tansey

Forenames

Lionel Matthew AWMM

Surname

Tansey AWMM

Service number

WWI 25/25 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

23 Jun 1885 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Ohakune, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Michael Tansey (father), Raetihi, King Country, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 05 Feb 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 25/25 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Solicitor/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 05 Feb 1916-12 Mar 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 42 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Sergeant AWMM 3rd Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Reported severely wounded at Passchendaele 13 October 1917 gsw left shoulder and arm AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Invalided to New Zealand aboard the HS Marama AWMM
• Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died of general tuberculosis AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Son of Michael Tansey and Frances Maria Murray Tansey.

Educated at Dannevirke District School, Napier High School, and Christ's College.

Two brothers died Frank Ellis Fermore Tansey (26/1127) kia, Lionel Matthew Tansey (25/25) died 1919 AWMM

Death

12 Mar 1919 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Sickness AWMM

Cemetery

Raetihi Cemetery, Ruapehu District, New Zealand AWMM Block III. Plot 70. AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7823775
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880976
  Further Reference
• Obituary: Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 63, 14 March 1919, Page 7
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19190314.2.110&srpos
  Further Reference
• Woodville Pioneer Museum, 1079 McLean Street, Woodville
  http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3100
  Further Reference
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643736/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643736
  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.
• HMNZT 42. The blast : the magazine of the Third Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. (1917). London: John Long Ltd. ; [On board ship] : [H.M.N.Z.T. No. 42, Ulimaroa]
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  24: 1
• Auckland Star
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.