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Harry Gerrard

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  • Service number
    WWI 16/120 AWMM
  • Also known as
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • 1st NZ Maori Contingent Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
    Private Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military record
  • Forenames
    Harry AWMM
  • Surname
    Gerrard AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 16/120 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
    Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM
  • Religion
    Church of England Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military record

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1 May 1886 Public Source
  • Date of birth
    1 May 1886 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record
  • Place of birth
    Port Awanui, East Coast Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record
  • Birth notes
    son of C Gerrard Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Tuparoa, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    C. Gerrard, Tuparoa, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 14 February 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Egyptian - Gallipoli, Egyptian EF & Western European Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • 1st NZ Maori Contingent Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record
  • Service number
    WWI 16/120 AWMM
  • Military service
    1914-1919 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    • WW1 AWMM
    • 7 Oct 1914 at Waipiro Bay Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record
  • Occupation before enlistment
    Labourer for A V S Reid of Pakihiroa Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record
  • Age on enlistment
    28yrs 5mths Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military Record

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Feb 1917 reported wounded & hospitalised - not sever Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14212, 1 February 1917, Page 7

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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Death

About death

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  • Death
    30 August 1961 Public Source
  • Date of death
    30 August 1961 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military record
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
    Te Puia Springs, East Coast Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - Military record
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
    Waipiro Bay School's Roll of Honor
    Tikitiki Church's War Memorial Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 18 January 2016 - research
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R16785629
    Further Reference
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Page No: 259 AWMM
    • New Zealand. Army. 1st Maori Contingent. Scroll of the 1st New Zealand Maori Contingent, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-624. AWMM
    • Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd. AWMM

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18 January 2016Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher

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