Forenames

Eugene AWMM

Surname

Waetford AWMM

Also known as

Eugene Waetford AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1297 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

16 May 1876 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra

Next of kin

Posey Waetford (son), Kamo, Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 16/1297 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 05 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 42 or HMNZT 43 or HMNZT 44 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa or Mokoia or Navua AWMM Private AWMM A Company AWMM 3rd Maori Contingent AWMM

Medical notes

• Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died of disease AWMM
• Height, WWI AWMM
  5' 8" AWMM
• Weight, WWI AWMM
  188 lb AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Embarked, 4 February 1916, disembarked Suez, 15 March 1916.
Embarked for France, 9 April 1916.
Admitted to No 7 General Hospital, St Omer, 4 May 1916 (cerebro spinal fever).
Died, 5 May 1916.

Next of Kin: c/o Mr J. F. Barron, Whananaki, Whangarei (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

5 May 1916 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM III. B. 11. AWMM

Obituary

EUGENE WAETFORD, cerebro-spinal fever, died in hospital on May 5 (Posey Waetford, Kamo, Whangarei, son).

Eugene Waetford, of the Maori Contingent, reported this morning, in a casualty list, to have died in the hospital from cerebro-spinal fever, on May 5th, is said to belong to Whangarei.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 6 June 2025 - Otago Witness, Issue 3244, 17 May 1916, Page 29 & Northern Advocate, 13 May 1916, Page 2

Memorial name

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

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22021047
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130812.html
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/23064/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/23064
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  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.
  25: 2
• NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
• 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. 4: Includes portrait
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.