William Oliver AWMM

Ennis AWMM

WWI 16/582 AWMM

Male AWMM

• 1871 AWMM AWMM
• 30 July 1872 Public Source

30 July 1872 (or 29 July 1875) birthdates vary at enlistment 1914, 1915 & 1920 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

Dublin, Ireland (other reports say he was born in Invercargill, NZ. He has no registered NZ Birth R Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

Pre 22 November 1914 AWMM 29 Howe Street, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Traffic Manager in Greymouth
Railway Officer in Christchurch Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

Mrs Sarah Louise Ennis (wife), care of W.H. Whittaker, Thames Street, Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM

• Pre 14 February 1915 AWMM Married AWMM
• 1900 married Sarah Louise WESBNEY Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Egyptian - Gallipoli, Egyptian EF & Western European Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

• Army AWMM
• 1st NZ Maori Contingent; Otago Inf Regt; 28th Aust Inf; NZ Maori Pioneers Btn Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

WWI 16/582 AWMM

• Volunteer service with Southland Hussars, 1890s. AWMM
• Adjutant of South Island Railway Battalion, 1913. AWMM
• South Island Railway Battalion AWMM
• NZ Pioneer (Maori) Battalion, D Company AWMM
• 1914-1919; & 1921-1926 with the NZ Territorials Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

• Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) AWMM
  DSO: London Gazette, 1 January 1918. Citation: "For distinguished service in the field [in France and Flanders]." AWMM
• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal with oak leaf AWMM
• Jubilee Medal 1897 AWMM
• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
  London Gazette 28 December 1917, p13575 AWMM

6yrs Southland Mounted Rifles; 2yrs Railway Battalion Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

• WW1 22 November 1914 AWMM Railwayman/Civilian AWMM
  Otago, New Zealand AWMM
• 14 Dec 1914 at Avondale Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

39yrs 6mths Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 March 1915 AWMM from AWMM to Suez, Egypt AWMM

HMNZT 20 AWMM Vessel was Warrimoo AWMM Captain/Military AWMM Headquarters Staff AWMM 1st Maori Contingent AWMM

• Accidental Death, Cause of Death AWMM
  Accidental death AWMM
• 1915 wounded at Gallipoli; Mar 1918 Bronchitis Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Military Record

Inter War 19 May 1919 AWMM
end of war AWMM
Lieutenant Colonel/Military AWMM
New Zealand (Maori) Pioneer Battalion AWMM

Feb 1926 AWMM
Age 55 AWMM
AWMM

12 February 1926 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Christchurch City Council's Cemetery Records

Huia Private Hospital, Auckland Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Christchurch City Council's Cemetery Records

Accidental Death AWMM

Bromley Cemetery, Christchurch, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Christchurch City Council's Cemetery Records

Block 39; Plot 51 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Christchurch City Council's Cemetery Records

MR. W. 0. ENNIS. The death of Mr. William Oliver Ennis, which occurred late on Saturday afternoon, as a result of a motor accident, removes a most popular officer of the Railway Department. Mr. Ennis was 55 years of age and joined the Railway Department at Invergargill 40 years ago to-day. He was station master in several parts of the South Island, and later was traffic manager at Christchurch. About I8 months ago ha was appointed staff superintendent for New Zealand, with headquarters at Wellington. Mr Ennis has served on various commissions in connection with departmental affairs. He was also at one time treasurer and vice president of the New Zealand Railway Officers Institute.
During the war he served at Gallipoli and in France, leaving New Zealand as Captain Adjutant of the Pioneer Battalion. He was wounded at Gallipoli, and gassed in France. He was awarded the D.S.0., with a bar, and reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In I897 Mr. Ennis was a member of the New Zealand Jubilee contingent sent to England to take part in the jubilee of Queen Victoria. In his younger days Mr. Ennis played Rugby football for Southland, and was stroke of the railway rowing four at Invercargill, where he was born. Mr. Ennis was on a visit to Auckland inquiring into a staff reorganisation scheme, and was accompanied by his wife. There are two sons. Mr Eric Ennis, surveyor of Christchurch. and Mr Douglas Ennis of the electrical department of that city Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 9 March 2016 - Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 38, 15 February 1926, Page 10

Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R21001090
Further Reference

• 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. AWMM
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
  Page No: 216 AWMM
• Haigh, J., Polaschek, A. (Eds.). (1993). New Zealand and the Distinguished Service Order. Christchurch, N.Z.: Authors. AWMM
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM