William James Parkes

Forenames

William James AWMM

Surname

Parkes AWMM

Service number

• 17 AWMM
• 30691 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1878 AWMM

Post war occupation

Warder at the Dunedin Gaol./Civilian AWMM

Next of kin

• Mr Parkes, Palmerston North, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs F. Parkes (wife), 2 Hankey Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

War

• South African War, 1899-1902 AWMM
• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Cape Colony AWMM
• Orange Free State AWMM
• 24 May 1900-31 May 1902 AWMM Transvaal AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• 17 AWMM
• 30691 AWMM

Military service

Palmerston North Rifles AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Queen's South Africa Medal AWMM
  One of only five to receive all three state bars. AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

• South Africa Unknown AWMM Farrier/Military AWMM
• WW1 Unknown AWMM Warder/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• South Africa 21 Oct 1899 AWMM
  Waiwera AWMM Vessel was Waiwera AWMM Private AWMM New Zealand Mounted Rifles, 1st Contingent, 1 Company AWMM 1st Contingent AWMM
• WW1 16 Feb 1917-02 May 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 76 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Sergeant AWMM 22nd Reinforcements, New Zealand Army Service Corps AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Hospital Diseases , Wounds, South Africa AWMM
Admitted to hospital in February 1900 suffering from a bad bone injury resulting from a horse kick. (Stowers, p.173) AWMM

Death

14 Sept 1926 AWMM
Age  48 AWMM

Cemetery

Timaru Cemetery, Timaru, New Zealand AWMM Plot 221 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20522602
  Further Reference
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21384033
  Further Reference
• New Zealand History online. New Zealand in the South (Boer) War
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  55: 24
• St Clair Inglis, A. (c1902). Souvenir Album of the first New Zealand Contingent South African War. Auckland, N.Z.: Arthur Cleave & Co.
• Stowers, R. (1992). Kiwi versus Boer : the First New Zealand Mounted Rifles in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. Hamilton, N.Z.: R. Stowers.