Andrew Hamilton Russell

Forenames

Andrew Hamilton AWMM

Surname

Russell AWMM

Service number

• WWI 11/257 AWMM
• WWII N/N AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

23 Feb 1868 AWMM

Birth notes

son of Andrew Hamilton Russell and Katherine Sarah Tinsley

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Address before enlistment

• Tunanui, Hastings, New Zealand AWMM
• Tunanui, Morere, Northern Wairoa, Hawkes Bay
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Post war occupation

Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs A.H. Russell (wife), Tunanui, Hastings, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Married AWMM
• 5 April 1896 married Gertrude Mary Beetham Williams in Hastings, NZ
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War

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

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1918 AWMM Le Quesnoy AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 11/257 AWMM
• WWII N/N AWMM

Military service

• 1st Border Regiment (rank of Lieutenant) AWMM
• Hawke's Bay Mounted Rifle Volunteers (rank of Captain) AWMM
• 4th Regiment Wellington (East Coast) Mounted Rifle Volunteers (Commanding Officer) AWMM
• Wellington Mounted Rifles Brigade (rank of Colonel) AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (KCB) AWMM
  London Gazette 01/01/1918 AWMM
• Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) AWMM
  London Gazette 01/01/1917 AWMM
• Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB) AWMM
• Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (France) AWMM
• Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 (France) AWMM
• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) Nine Times AWMM
  London Gazette 5 November 1915, p11001 | London Gazette 28 January 1916, p1207 | London Gazette 4 January 1917. Mentioned in despatch from General Sir Douglas Haig, G.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies in France, dated 13th November, 1916., London Gazette 1 June 1917, p5429 | London Gazette 28 December 1917, p13574 | London Gazette 28 May 1918, p6204 | London Gazette 11 July 1919, p8836 | London Gazette 29 January 1919, p1446 AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Order of the White Eagle, 1st Class with Swords (Serbia) AWMM
  London Gazette 20 September 1919, p11758 AWMM
• Order of Danilo, 2nd Class (Montenegro) AWMM
  London Gazette 9 March 1917, p2448 AWMM
• Commandeur de l'Ordre de Léopold (Belgium) AWMM
  London Gazette 1 April 1919, p4200 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Occupation before enlistment

Farmer

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Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 11 AWMM Vessel was Athenic AWMM Colonel/Military AWMM Headquarters, Mounted Rifles Brigade AWMM Main Body AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Major General/Military AWMM

Father: Andrew Hamilton Russell

Mother: Katherine Sarah Tinsley

Education: Harrow School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst

Left England after serving his time with the 1st Border Regiment to go back to New Zealand where he took up sheepfarming

5 April 1896 married Gertrude Mary Beetham Williams

Children : 3 daughters and two sons

After the war was President of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers Association (1921-1924 and 1927-1935) AWMM

Death

29 Nov 1960 AWMM
Age  92 AWMM

Place of death

Tunanui on the Family Farm

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Death notes

Russell died at Tunanui on 29 November 1960, aged 92, and received a funeral service with full military honours. He was survived by his wife, three daughters and a son.

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Cemetery name

Tunanui Cemetery. The Morere cemetery is on Tunanui Road - it is near (or even on) the scenic
reser

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Obituary

Read item found on Te Ara website http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3r34/russell-andrew-hamilton

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Related objects

External links

• National Archives of New Zealand, National Collection of War Art. Portrait.
  http://warart.archives.govt.nz/node/178
  Further Reference
• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24063102
  Further Reference
• Military Personnel File
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24268900
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• Wikidata Entity
  http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q768374
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References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 635
• Ell, S. (2008). A New Zealand Christmas: three centuries of Kiwi Christmas celebrations from the Alexander Turnbull Library. Auckland, N.Z.: Godwit.
  p. 102-103 Photograph, by the official NZEF photographer, Henry Armytage Sanders, "The New Zealand Commander carves the turkey on Christmas day", 1917.
• Pugsley, C. (1990). Gallipoli: The New Zealand Story (Rev. ed.). Auckland, N.Z.: Sceptre.
• Pugsley, C. (1991). On the Fringe of Hell: New Zealanders and Military Discipline in the First World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Hodder & Stoughton.
• Stewart, H. (1921). The New Zealand Division 1916-1919 : a popular history based on official records. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Armoury Cenotaph File
• Williams, E. G. (1914-1918). [Williams Album 3]. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tamaki Paenga Hira. PH-ALB-212.
• Unknown photographer. (1914 - 1918) [Battles at Ypres and Messines]. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tamaki Paenga Hira. PH-ALB-195.
• 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. 2: Includes portrait
• Unknown, photographer (1914-1918). George S. Richardson Album. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tamaki Paenga Hira (PH-ALB-413).
• 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.
• The Le Quesnoy Campaign research was undertaken by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists as part of the development of New Zealand Liberation Museum - Te Arawhata (Le Quesnoy France). This research project was led by CJ Barbour (NZSG), BI Silvester, HH Farrant (NZMHS) with the support of NZSG volunteers (2022). The individuals included in this research dataset were identified as potentially having served in or around the wider Le Quesnoy campaign. Their presence at Le Quesnoy has not been individually verified in every case.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.