Edgar Henry Garland
Born 1895 - Died 4 May 1973
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- Also known as
- E.H. AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Lieutenant/Military AWMM Royal Air Force AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Edgar Henry AWMM
- Edgar HenryPublic - Victoria - 28 April 2015 - Alexander Turnbull Library (2015) Retrieved from http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22502120
- Surname
- Garland AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
- E.H. AWMM
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- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 1895 AWMM
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- Birth notes
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- Address before enlistment
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- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- WW1 F.L. Garland, 78 Oriental Bay, Wellington AWMM
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Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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- Military service
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- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
- Royal Aero Club Cert. No.: 3583 AWMM
- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
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- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 16 Oct 1916-28 Dec 1916 Partial Military Personnel File
HMNZT 66 Partial Military Personnel File Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Second Lieutenant Partial Military Personnel File Miscellaneous, Royal Flying Corps Partial Military Personnel File New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
- WW1 POW - Karlsruhe, Baden, AWMM
Offizier Gefangenelager AWMM - WW1 POW - Karlsruhe, Baden, AWMM
19 Sept 1917 AWMM - WW1 POW - Holzminden, Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany AWMM
22 Aug 1917 AWMM
- WW1 POW - Karlsruhe, Baden, AWMM
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
- WW1 Prisoner of War now repatriated and in London AWMM
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Medical history
- Medical notes
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Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Lieutenant/Military AWMM
Royal Air Force AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Flying School, Auckland, New Zealand. Attained Lieutenant 1 April 1918.
Garland received his training at Kohimarama Fly School in 1916.
Partial Military Personnel File requests that Lieut. Garland be "adopted" by the New Zealand committee.
"It will be remembered that Flight-Lieutenant Garland, while flying at a height of 19,000ft, was obliged to make a forced landing at Ostend and was interned on 22nd August, 1917. He attempted and escape from the camp five months ago, but was recaptured, and given two month's solitary confinement for his offence, with the loss of certain privileges...Flight Lieutenant Garland went through twenty-four flights over the German lines" (Internee in Germany. Horowhenua Chronicle , 14 September 1918, Page 4).
Regarded by the German War Office as one of the most dangerous and elusive of the British officers. He attempted to escape eight times from German Prisoner of War camps (Remarkable Careers, Dominion, 14 May 1919).
Attended Waitaki Boys' High School, Oamaru. AWMM
About death
- Death
- 4 May 1973 AWMM
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Waitaki Boys' High School Roll of Honour WWI 1914-1918 AWMM
Sources
- External links
- Base Records file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22422253
Further Reference - World War I soldier Lieutenant E H Garland, in military uniform. S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives. Ref: 1/1-013965-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22502120
Sources Used - The First of the few 1915-1919 (Motat)
http://www.firstofthefew.co.nz/pilots/e-h-garland
Sources Used - Garland, Edgar Henry, b 1895. Nude portrait of Mr E H Garland. S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives. Ref: 1/1-013963-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23182485
Sources Used - Main file of the British Army and the Commonwealth. 1914-1918 Prisoners of the First World War ICRC historical archives.
http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/3054899/3/2/
Sources Used - Wikipedia Entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Henry_Garland
Further Reference
- Base Records file
- References
- Cook, J. (2013). The real great escape: the story of the First World War's most daring mass breakout. North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Vintage.
- 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. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
43: 21 - Fielding Star
AVIATORS. Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3045, 15 September 1916, Page 4 - Auckland Star
KOHIMARAMA FLYING SCHOOL. Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 69, 21 March 1917, Page 8 - Horowhenua Chronicle
INTERNEE IN GERMANY. Horowhenua Chronicle , 14 September 1918, Page 4 - Auckland Star
FLYING IN AUCKLAND. Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 52, 1 March 1917, Page 6 - The Dominion
REMARKABLE CAREER Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 196, 14 May 1919, Page 3 - Daley, Caroline. Leisure and Pleasure : Reshaping and Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960, Auckland University Press, 2013.
- Harper, G., Clements, C., & Johns., R. (2019). For King and Other Countries: The New Zealanders Who Fought in Other Services in the First World War. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press.
- McDonald, K. C. (1958). A history of Waitaki Boys’ High School, 1883-1958. Christchurch [N.Z.] : Whitcombe and Tombs.
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