Arthur Guyon Purchas Brookfield

Forenames

Arthur Guyon Purchas AWMM

Surname

Brookfield AWMM

Also known as

• Guyon AWMM
• Arthur Guyton Purchas Brookfield AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/3231 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1882 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM St Helier's Bay, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Frederic William Brookfield (father), St Helier's Bay, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 13 Nov 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/3231 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 13 Nov 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 35 or HMNZT 36 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM 8th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Death

23 Jun 1916 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France AWMM II. B. 21. AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. 1916. AWMM

Memorial name

• Arthur Guyon Purchas Brookfield Memorial, St Heliers, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• WWI Roll of Honour, King's College Memorial Chapel at King's College, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand.
  Public - King's College Archive - Researcher - 5 May 2026 - King's College Memorial Chapel

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22280417
  Further Reference
• World War I Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. Auckland Council. Retrieved October 2017.
  https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/about-auckland-council/how-auckland-council-works/local-boards/all-local-boards/orakei-local-board/Documents/world-war-roll-honour.pdf
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/275847/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/275847
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Included in the World War I Digital Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. The Ōrākei Local Board commissioned a World War I roll of honour for its area to commemorate the war’s centenary. The board welcomes additional information from the public on this project.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 81
• Brookfield, Arthur Guyon Purchas. Letters to R. Craven, 1915 - 1916. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-1358.
• King's College, Auckland. (1918). King's College, Auckland : the Great War, 1914-18. Auckland, N.Z.: The College.
• Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland Grammar School.
  1916, Second term. p.10
• 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
• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• 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.