Charles Burgess Woodward

Forenames

Charles Burgess AWMM

Surname

Woodward AWMM

Service number

WWI 1/244 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

26th December 1888

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Place of birth

Lewisham, England

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Birth notes

Son of Charles WOODWARD

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Address before enlistment

• Unknown AWMM 52 Ellice Avenue, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM

Next of kin

• Mrs Clark Woodward, 52 Ellice Avenue, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Charles Woodward (father), 52 Ellice Avenue, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
• Pre 26 Jul 1916 AWMM Unknown Marital Status AWMM
• 1917 Charles Burgess WOODWARD married Elizabeth Mary NADGE in Brockenhurst, England
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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 1/244 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Unknown AWMM Draper/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Private AWMM 5th (Wellington) Regiment AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 26 Jul 1916 AWMM
  HMNZT 59 or HMNZT 60 AWMM Vessel was Waitemata or Ulimaroa AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

• SuppNom: Ex Samoan Advance AWMM
• WOODWARD-MADGE.-On March 16, at the Parish Church, Brockenhurst. England, by the Rev. Coombe Williams, Charles Burgess Woodward, Lieutenant N.Z. Pioneer Battalion, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Woodward, of Ellier Avenue. Wellington, to E Mary, only daughter of F. W. and Mrs. Madge, of Forest Hill, London.
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Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22025191
  Further Reference
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
  Further Reference

References

• The ulima-roarer : a collection of wails & fishy stories, etc., from the Indian Ocean. (1916). [Indian Ocean]: [15th Reinforcements].
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 800
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  37: 37
• Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
• Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
• HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-