Identity
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Herbert James AWMM
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Allison AWMM
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WWI 25426 AWMM
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James Allison (father), No. 1 Line, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM
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Son of James and Annie Allison, of Paori, Wanganui.
"Left New Zealand September 23rd, 1916. He was three weeks in Egland [sic] before he went to France, where he served through the battle of Messines. On October 3rd, 1917, he was killed at Gravenstafel, near Passchendaele Ridge. He, in company with others, was lying out in a shell hole ready for an advance, but as the German barrage was so heavy they were ordered back to their trench. Immediately afterwards a shell exploded, whicih [sic] caught them all." (In Memoriam, 1914-1918 [Wanganui Collegiate School]) AWMM
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- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
41: 7 AWMM - In Memoriam, 1914-1918. (1919).Wanganui, N.Z.: Collegiate School. AWMM
- Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces - aboard H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha") AWMM
See 'The Pakeha', ship's newspaper, October 1916, of the 17th Reinforcements of the NZEF. Copy in the Armoury Vertical File. AWMM - Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2015). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-3). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
Vol. 2: Includes portrait AWMM
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