Harold Robert Brumby

Forenames

Harold Robert AWMM

Surname

Brumby AWMM

Also known as

• Harold Robert Bruneby AWMM
• Harold Robert AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/2618 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Box 58, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs Martha Ann Bruneby (mother), 185 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Aug 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/2618 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Aug 1915-19 Sep 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 27 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Sergeant AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM 6th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Son of Mrs. Martha Ann Brumby, of Auckland.

Harold Brumby left New Zealand as a Sergeant with the Auckland Battalion and was commissioned to 2nd Lieutenant 26 August 1916.

Name recorded on the nominal rolls as Harold Robert Bruneby and next of kin named Bruneby

Next of Kin: Mrs M. A. Brumby, Mt Eden, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

28 Sept 1916 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM
• Hamilton Memorial Park, Memorial Drive, Hamilton East, 3216 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Onehunga Returned and Services Association, 57 Princes Street, Onehunga, Auckland AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21889194
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1462952/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1462952
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Studholme, J. (1928). New Zealand Expeditionary Force record of personal services during the war of officers, nurses, and first-class warrant officers, and other facts relating to the N.Z.E.F. : unofficial but based on official records. Wellington, N.Z.: Government Printer.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 88
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• 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.
• The Magazine Of The Sixth Reinforcements NZEF : published at sea on 28th August & 11th September, 1915