Jack Lazarus
Born b. 1891
Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 July 2024 - Military Record
- Died 24 Sept 1916 - Service number
- WWI 16/1418 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Private AWMM New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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About birth
- Birth
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- Date of birth
- b. 1891Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 July 2024 - Military Record
- Place of birth
- SuvaPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 July 2024 - Military Record
- Birth notes
- Son of Samuel LazarusPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 July 2024 - Military Record
- Address before enlistment
- SAMOAPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 July 2024 - Military Record
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Miss Anne Lazarus (sister), Suva, Fiji, Pacific Islands AWMM
- Samuel Lazarus (father) c/- Bank of New Zealand George Street, Sydney, Australia & then later
Standard Bank of South Africe, Durban, South AfricaPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 July 2024 - Military Record
- Relationship status
- SinglePublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 July 2024 - Military Record
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- Battle of the Somme AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 16/1418 AWMM
- 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
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Trader/Civilian AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Private AWMM 4th Reinforcements AWMM Maori Contingent AWMM
Prisoner of war
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- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Pioneer Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Jack Lazarus was the son of Samuel Lazarus of Fiji. AWMM
- Jack Lazarus' Death.
In this inferno our gallant lads from Samoa put in twenty-three days. They could see little of what was going on in front of them, only day by day they moved slowly forward, their work consisting in the repair of trenches deserted by the Germans and in helping generally to consolidate the ground won. In these captured trenches were many dead Germans. They saw literally hundreds of corpses. It was here, eight or nine days after their arrival, that Jack Lazarus was killed, also a Tongan half-caste named Mitchell, married to one of the Scanlons in Faleula. Just about nightfall, Lazarus was working with Oscar Meredith digging a trench, about fifty yards away from where Roberts also was working, when a shell burst and a fragment struck Lazarus in the back. Roberts heard him cry out and rushed to his assistance, but it was Oscar and a Fijian half-caste named Charlie Wearsau who carried the injured lad down to the dressing station. At the time they did not think he was mortally wounded. He was put in the train for the Base Hospital, and a day or two afterwards, to their great sorrow, they learned the news that their comrade was dead.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 15 June 2025 - Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 18, Issue 10, 9 March 1918, Page 4
About death
- Death
- 24 Sept 1916 AWMM
- Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Died of wounds AWMM
- Death notes
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- Cemetery
- Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-l'Abbe, Somme, France AWMM IV. H.22 AWMM
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Memorial
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Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10918460
Further Reference - New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-130663.html
Further Reference - Corporal Frank Roberts Comes Home’, Samoa Times, 9 March 1918
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SAMZ19180309.2.8
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/271578/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/271578
Further Reference - Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-CowMaor.html
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- References
- Information kindly provided by family
- HMNZT 52.The bugle call of the 12th NZ Reinforcements : being the souvenir number of The Mokoia chronicle.(1916). On board ship: Published on board H.M.N.Z. Transport no. 52 "S.S. Mokoia".
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
31: 26 - Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
- Soutar, M. (2019). Whitiki! Whiti! Whiti! E!: Maori In the First World War. New Zealand: David Bateman Ltd.
- Cowan, J. (1926). The Maoris in the Great War. Auckland, N.Z.: Maori Regimental Committee by Whitcombe & Tombs.
- Pugsley, C. (1995). Te Hokowhitu a Tu : the Maori Pioneer Battalion in the first World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed.
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