Oswald Joseph Jans

Forenames

Oswald Joseph AWMM

Surname

Jans AWMM

Service number

• WWI 44381 AWMM
• WWII 23441 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW2 New Commercial Hotel, Taihape AWMM

Next of kin

• Oswald Jans (father), Flint Road, Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
• WW2 Mrs. M. Newbold, No. 2 Line, Wanganui (sister) AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 1940 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

War

• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 44381 AWMM
• WWII 23441 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Farmer/Civilian AWMM
• WW2 1940 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.95 Farmhand/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.95

Embarkation details

• WW1 26 Apr 1917-28 Jul 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 82 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Private AWMM 24th Reinforcements, F Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
• WW2 Sapper 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.95 11th (N.Z.) Forestry Company, N.Z. Engineers 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.95 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Engineers, 11 Forestry Company AWMM

Death

7 Sept 1940 AWMM
Age  47 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Cemetery

Netley Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England AWMM 987 AWMM

Obituary

Advice has been received at New Plymouth of the death on active service in England of Sapper Oswald J. Jans, a member of the forestry detachment of the Second Echelon. Sapper Jans, who was 47 years of age, was unmarried. He was the second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. O. Jans, formerly well-known residents of the Stratford and Oakura districts. Sapper Jans also lived for some time at Oakura and Okato, but for the past ten years he had lived in the King Country, where he was engaged in contracting. Sapper Jans saw three years' service in the last war. Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 63, 11 September 1940, Page 7 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2439002
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18053010
  Further Reference
• Obituary
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19400911.2.41
  Further Reference

References

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.95
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  60: 8
• Information kindly provided by family
• Cody, J.F. (1961). New Zealand Engineers, Middle East. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• HMNZT 82 - The Pakeha (Mark III) : being the journal of the Left Wing of the 24th New Zealand Reinforcements. Burge, W.R. (William Ralph), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 24th Reinforcements : 1917