James Augustus Kane

Forenames

James Augustus AWMM

Surname

Kane AWMM

Also known as

• James Augustine Kane AWMM
• James Agustus Kane AWMM
• James Augustine Kane AWMM

Service number

WWI 28889 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Peter Kane (father), Merton, North Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 11 Oct 1916 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 28889 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 11 Oct 1916-28 Dec 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 67 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Private AWMM 18th Reinforcements, J Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of influenza AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment AWMM

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kane, of Evansdale, Otago.

Four brothers served in WW1: James Augustus Kane (28889), Joseph Constantine Kane (44643), Hugh Kane (29554), Daniel Kane (53204).

Typo on the Nominal Roll, name spelled as James Agustus Kane. Death registration and buried as James Augustine Kane AWMM

Death

• 14 Nov 1918 AWMM
  Age  25 AWMM
• 14 Nov 1918 Allan Steel Cemetery Project
  Age  25 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

• Hawksbury (Waikouati) Cemetery, Elgin Street, Hawksbury, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM Block 4RC. Plot 32 AWMM
• Waikouaiti/Hawkesbury Cemetery, Dunedin City Council AWMM Block 4RC, Plot 33B AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
  Sources Used
• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18055263
  Further Reference
• Death advice: Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 122, 19 November 1918, Page 5
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19181119.2.22.3&srpos
  Sources Used
• SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
  https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=3596
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/642747/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/642747
  Further Reference
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
  http://web.archive.org/web/20220331095731/https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Documents/Provisional-list-NZ-victims-of-1918-Flu-Pandemic-Ancestry.pdf
  Sources Used

References

• The Evening Post
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  43: 16
• This record was partially compiled from data kindly provided by Allan Steel Cemetery Project (2020)
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• HMNZT 67. Long Trail. (1916). On board ship:Published by the Right Wing of the 18th Reinforcements.