James Alexander Melville

Forenames

James Alexander AWMM

Surname

Melville AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/413 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs Margaret Dorothy Melville (mother), Rotorua, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/413 AWMM

Military service

6 Hauraki Company AWMM

Medals and Awards

• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
  London Gazette 1 June 1917, p5429, Rec No 669 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 8 or HMNZT 12 AWMM Vessel was Star of India or Waimana AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Died from influenza AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

James Melville was the son of James and Margaret Dorothy Melville of Cambridge, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs M. D. Melville, Cambridge, Waikato (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

15 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

Featherston Cemetery, Western Lake Road, Featherston, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM 720 AWMM

Memorial name

• Rotorua War Memorial (World War 1) AWMM
• Featherston Cemetery Memorial, Featherston, New Zealand AWMM
• Hautapu RSA Memorial 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, Leamington, Cambridge AWMM
• Cambridge Cenotaph, Victoria St, Cambridge 3434 AWMM
• Cambridge World War One War Memorials AWMM
• 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/R21374588
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880505
  Further Reference
• Deaths of Soldiers. Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 121, 18 November 1918, Page 4
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19181118.2.22&srpos
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online. Featherston War Memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/featherston-cemetery-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643520/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643520
  Further Reference
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
  http://web.archive.org/web/20220331095731/https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Documents/Provisional-list-NZ-victims-of-1918-Flu-Pandemic-Ancestry.pdf
  Sources Used

References

• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 498
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• 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.