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Gordon Hart Whyte

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Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1915 - No known copyright restrictions

Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1915 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Gordon Hart AWMM
  • Surname
    Whyte AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • 9024 AWMM
    • 11/644 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    25 December 1880 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    • Pre 9 April 1902 AWMM Seacombs Road, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Pre 16 September 1915 AWMM Castlebar, Khyber Pass Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mrs Jane J. Whyte (mother), Waihau, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs Jane J. Whyte (mother),Castlebar, Khyber Pass Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Pre 16 October 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of James and Jane Johnstone Whyte, of Hunter St., Hamilton.

    Member of the College Rifles Rugby Football Club

    Father was named James Whyte. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    30 May 1915 AWMM
    Age 35 AWMM
    Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    TROOPER G. H. WHYTE.' A cablegram has been received by Mrs. J. G. Whyte, Castlebar, Symonds Street, stating that her third son, Trooper Gordon H. Whyte, of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, has been killed in action. The message was .sent by another son, Trooper Blair Whyte, who is now in Cairo recovering from an operation for appendicitis, and it is presumed that he was advised by his brother, Major J. H. Whyte, N.Z.S.C., second in command of the reglment. Trooper Gordon Whyte was born in Auckland, and was about 34 years of age. Prior to the war he was engaged as a Traveller for the firm of T. and S. Morrin, Limited Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 12 June 2023 - MEN WHO HAVE FALLEN.
    NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME LII, ISSUE 15945, 16 JUNE 1915, PAGE 9
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Memorials

Memorial

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    • Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey AWMM
    • Roll of Honour, College Rifles, Rugby Union Football & Sports Club, 33 Haast Street, Remuera, Auckland AWMM
    • Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 776 AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
    • HMNZT 6. Orari tatler : a souvenir of the voyage of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from Wellington to Alexandria, Oct. 16th-Dec. 3rd, 1914. (1915). [Cairo, Egypt]: Whitehead, Morris and Co. (Egypt) Ltd. AWMM
    • Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2. AWMM

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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
12 June 2023Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher
08 October 2021Ian BanksTaumarunui New ZealandResearcher

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