Roland Lee

Forenames

Roland AWMM

Surname

Lee AWMM

Also known as

Arthur Roland Brook Lee AWMM

Service number

WWI 43430 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs A. Lee (mother), Te Atatu, via Henderson, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 43430 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Engineer/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Apr 1917-20 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 84 AWMM Vessel was Turakina AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Gunner/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

Next of Kin: Mr A Lee, Awhiti, Manukau (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

26 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM X. D. 5. AWMM

Memorial name

• Hamilton Memorial Park, Memorial Drive, Hamilton East, 3216 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10918722
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/621367/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/621367
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  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.
  62: 23
• 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
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• HMNZT 84 - The klink : a souvenir of the voyage of S.S. Turakina (H.M.N.Z.T. 84) April to July, 1917; and a history of the doings of the Left Wing of the 25th Reinforcements N.Z.E.F. on their way to the Front -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. : 1917