Maurice Alwyn Adams

Title

Driver

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Forenames

Maurice Alwyn AWMM

Surname

Adams AWMM

Also known as

Bill Adams

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Service number

WWI 2/2350 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

• Church of England, Christian AWMM
• Church of England
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Birth

20 Jan 1884 Military personnel file

Date of birth

20 January 1884

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Place of birth

Ireland

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Birth notes

son of James & Frances Maud ADAMS of Kill, Co Kildare, Ireland

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs Lily Adams (wife), 34 Adelaide Road, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 13 Nov 1915 AWMM Married AWMM
• 1914 married Lily Williamson in Gisborne
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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Battle of Messines AWMM
• Egyptian, Egyptian E F & Western European
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Armed force / branch

• Army AWMM
• NZ FIELD ARTILLARY - 5 Howitzer Battery
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Service number

WWI 2/2350 AWMM

Military service

1915-1917

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Medals and Awards

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• 1914-1915 Star
  British War & Victory Medals
  Plaque & Scroll # 500037
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Enlistment

• WW1 Surfaceman/Civilian AWMM
• 17 Aug 1915 at Trentham
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Age on enlistment

31yrs

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Occupation before enlistment

Surfaceman for the Waiapu County Council

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Embarkation details

WW1 13 Nov 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 35 or HMNZT 36 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM 8th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Driver/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

• Next of Kin: Mrs L. Adams, Adelaide Rd, Wellington (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1))
  
  Next of Kin: Mrs L. Adams, Adelaide St, Wellington (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM
• June 1917 News has been received of the death in action on May 28th of Maurice Alwyn Adams of the New Zealand Field Artillery, his wife Mrs Lily Adams, of Tokomaru Bay.
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Death

28 May 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM I. J. 17. AWMM

Memorial name

Tokomaru Bay War Memorial
Gisborne's War Memorial

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Memorial name

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/R22311743
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/453400/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/453400
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 4
• 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.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.