Howard Benjamin Walter Barter

Forenames

Howard Benjamin Walter AWMM

Surname

Barter AWMM

Also known as

Tom AWMM

Service number

WWI 31161 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Howard Russell Barter (father), Connell Bay, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 31161 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 15 Nov 1916-30 Jan 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 68 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM 19th Reinforcements Specialist Machine-Gun Section AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of pneumonia AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Son of Howard Russell Barter and Mary Bella Barter.

Educated at King's College, 1898 - 1908 and is commemorated in their Roll of Honour.

Next of Kin: Mr H. Barter, Waingaro, Waikato (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

28 Feb 1917 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Sickness AWMM

Cemetery

Londonthorpe (St John the Baptist) Churchyard, Lincolnshire, England AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• WWI Roll of Honour, King's College Memorial Chapel at King's College, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand.
  Public - King's College Archive - Researcher - 5 May 2026 - King's College Memorial Chapel

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22273072
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/379943/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/379943
  Further Reference

References

• King's College, Auckland. (1918). King's College, Auckland : the Great War, 1914-18. Auckland, N.Z.: The College.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  45: 19
• 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
• Headstone photographs and war papers. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2007/8.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.