Gerald James Charles Harrison
Died 3 Dec 1917
- Service number
- WWI 6/2655 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Sergeant AWMM Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
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- Forenames
- Gerald James Charles AWMM
- Surname
- Harrison AWMM
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- WWI 6/2655 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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About birth
- Birth
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- Address before enlistment
- Unknown AWMM 34 Webb Street, Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
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- Next of kin
- J. Harrison (father), 34 Webb Street, Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 14 Aug 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- Attack on Polderhoek Chateau AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 6/2655 AWMM
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Training and Enlistment
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 14 Aug 1915-19 Sep 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 27 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM Canterbury Infantry Battalion AWMM 6th Reinforcements AWMM
Prisoner of war
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Sergeant AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Gerald Harrison was the son of James and Katherine Harrison of St Albans,Christchurch.
Operation Orders for the attack on Polderhoek Chateau and grounds were issued on 1 December 1917.The assault was to take place on 3 December with two battalions of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in line, namely the 1st Battalion of Otago and the 1st Battalion of Canterbury. In addition to the artillery barrage which was to support the attack arrangements were made for the operation to be covered by a barrage of machine gun fire, by trench mortars and by a discharge of gas by 4in. Stokes mortars. The attack was not a success and a fatal miscalculation caused the two leading Companies (4th and 10th) to be caught in the destructive fire of their own artillery.Severe losses were incurred. See A.E. Byrne The Official History of the Otago Regiment in the Great War, p. 232ff. and David FergusonThe History of the Canterbury Regiment, NZEF 1914-1919, p. 212ff.There is a good map on p. 216/7 of this book. AWMM - James and Katherine Harrison farmed and raised their family in the mid-Canterbury area, firstly in the upper Ashburton River area, and then nearer Mt Somers. There is a memorial window in St Aidans church in Mt Somers to them, and to the sons that died in World War 1. Because Gerald's sister Connie married A.R Turnbull who farmed at Balcairn in North Canterbury, and another sister Annette married AR Turnbull's first cousin Dick Turnbull in Timaru, Gerald Harrison was is the great uncle of a number of North Canterbury and Timaru Turnbulls. Gerald thus had connections in the Balcairn/Amberley area.Public - Susan - Other relative - 12 October 2017 - Family history. Gerald Harrison was my grandmother Annette's brother. She was born in 9 April 1898. My aunt was named Geraldine, and my brother Andrew Gerald Turnbull was presumably also named after him. No family stories were told however.
- James and Katherine Harrison farmed and raised their family in the mid-Canterbury area, firstly in the upper Ashburton River area, and then nearer Mt Somers. There is a memorial window in St Aidans church in Mt Somers to them, and to the sons that died in World War 1. Because Gerald's sister Connie married A.R Turnbull who farmed at Balcairn in North Canterbury, and another sister Annette married AR Turnbull's first cousin Dick Turnbull in Timaru, Gerald Harrison was is the great uncle of a number of North Canterbury and Timaru Turnbulls. Gerald thus had connections in the Balcairn/Amberley area.Public - Susan - Other relative - 12 October 2017 - Family history. Gerald Harrison was my grandmother Annette's brother. She was born in 9 April 1898. My aunt was named Geraldine, and my brother Andrew Gerald Turnbull was presumably also named after him. No family stories were told however.
- Gerald Harrison was the son of James and Katherine Harrison of St Albans,Christchurch.
About death
- Death
- 3 Dec 1917 AWMM
Age 22 AWMM - Date of death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Killed in Action AWMM
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- Cemetery
- Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM 1XA.G.12 AWMM
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Related objects
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Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16792299
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/458226/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/458226
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- References
- Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Page No: 307 - 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 - The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
- The Magazine Of The Sixth Reinforcements NZEF : published at sea on 28th August & 11th September, 1915
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