Mathew Holmes

Forenames

Mathew AWMM

Surname

Holmes AWMM

Service number

WWI 3/1 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

2 Oct 1878 Kiwi Jocks Research
7 St. Margarets Rd, Edinburgh AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 196 Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

• Mrs Elsie Beatrice Holmes (wife), 196 Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Elsie Beatrice Holmes (wife), 196 Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Married AWMM
• Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Married AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Samoa AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 3/1 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Surgeon/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Major/Military AWMM Headquarters, Medical Corps AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
  HMNZT 17 or HMNZT 18 or HMNZT 19 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima AWMM Major/Military AWMM Headquarters, Medical Corps AWMM 3rd Reinforcements AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM
• WW1 01 Apr 1916 AWMM
  HMNZT 49 or HMNZT 50 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM 11th Reinforcements, New Zealand Medical Corps AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  3rd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

18 Nov 1918 AWMM Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Influenza AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lieutenant Colonel/Military AWMM
New Zealand Medical Corps AWMM

Son of Mr and Mrs James Stuart Holmes, of Wellington; husband of Elsie Beatrice Holmes of 56A, Hobson Street, Wellington

Educated at Waitaki and Otago High Schools and at Edinburgh University, Scotland. Athletics ("Blue"), 1901. M.B.Ch.B., 1902; F.R.C.S. (Edin.) 1905; M.D., 1906.

Commander No. 1 New Zealand Field Ambulance in France. Appointed A.D.M.S, Wellington after being invalided home

SuppNom: Ex 3rd Reinforcements., SuppNom: Ex Samoan Advance. AWMM

Death

15 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  39 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM 273. I. P.2. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18049288
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880190
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/644011/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/644011
  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

• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• Pat Clarkson Medical Practitioner Research Project (January 2014 - March 2022). This project identified Medical Practioners who served in WWI.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 338
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  28: 27
• 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
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
• Kiwi Jocks or Scottish-born New Zealand soldiers in the NZEF. Information kindly provided by Andrew Nixon, Scotland between 2009 and 2010.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Carbery, A.R.D. (1924). The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War, 1914-1918 : based on official documents. Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-