Roderick Crighton McFarland

Forenames

Roderick Crighton AWMM

Surname

McFarland AWMM

Also known as

• Robert Corbett AWMM
• Robert Roderick Crichton McFarland AWMM

Service number

WWI 12811 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

18 Sept 1895 NZWGT

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs S.M. McFarland (mother), St Heliers Bay, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12811 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Clerk AWMM
• WW1 09 Feb 1916 NZWGT

Embarkation details

WW1 27 May 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 54 or HMNZT 55 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM 13th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

31 Oct 1917 {Age 22} AWMM Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Wounded in action (gunshot wounds both legs, fracture left femur) on 30 October 1917 and admitted to 8 Canadian Field Ambulance and transferred to 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station the same day. Died of wounds at the casualty clearing station on 31 October 1917. AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Gunner/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

Death

31 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM VIII. D. 14. AWMM

Memorial name

• Remuera Primary School World War One Gates 1914-1918, 25 Dromorne Road, Remuera Auckland 1050 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/R10924081
  Further Reference
• World War I Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. Auckland Council. Retrieved October 2017.
  https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/about-auckland-council/how-auckland-council-works/local-boards/all-local-boards/orakei-local-board/Documents/world-war-roll-honour.pdf
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/137068/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/137068
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/1332
  Further Reference
• Glenn Reddiex
  http://100nzww1postcards.blogspot.co.nz/2013/08/home-beyond-their-reach.html
  Public - Glenn - Researcher - 21 May 2015 - Private postcard collection

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• Included in the World War I Digital Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. The Ōrākei Local Board commissioned a World War I roll of honour for its area to commemorate the war’s centenary. The board welcomes additional information from the public on this project.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  33: 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
• NZWGT: Information supplied by the New Zealand War Graves Trust as part of the New Zealand War Graves project. This project was established in 2006 to record in text and photographs the 31,758 New Zealanders who have been identifed as serving with New Zealand or Allied forces, and who died in conflicts from the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) up to the present day and in peacekeeping operations.
• 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.