William Mandeno Smallfield

Forenames

William Mandeno AWMM

Surname

Smallfield AWMM

Service number

WWI 17735 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Birth

8 Jun 1895 AWMM

Post war occupation

Clerk in Holy Orders/Civilian AWMM

Next of kin

Reverend P.S. Smallfield (father), Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 17735 AWMM

Military service

• 5th Reserve Battery, A Company AWMM
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Battalion, B Company AWMM
• 5th New Zealand Light Railway Company AWMM

Military training

• Chiropody Training AWMM
• Instruction in Stokes Trench Mortars AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Mar 1916 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Printer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 21 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 62 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM 7th Reinforcements 3rd Battalion, G Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  6 foot 1.5 inches AWMM
• Complexion, Unknown Period AWMM
  Fair AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Blue AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Leg wound 11 February 1917, admitted to hospital AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Hospitalised with influenza, trench fever 3 August 1917, No 47 General Hospital, in France, and then to NZ General Hospital Brockenhurst AWMM

Last rank

Inter War 23 Apr 1919 AWMM
On account of illness contracted on active service AWMM
Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Light Railways Operative Section AWMM

Death

1969 AWMM
Age  74 AWMM

Cemetery

Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Block J, Row 32, Plot 90 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7818152
  Further Reference
• No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst
  http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm
  Further Reference
• Online Cenotaph Features
  http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/william-mandeno-smallfield
  Further Reference
• Auckland War Memorial Museum. Exhibition. 2008 "In Memory". Installation commissioned for the 90th Armistice anniversary. Curator, Peter Kirby.
  https://web.archive.org/web/20100522022548/http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/813/personal-stories
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  38: 34
• Smallfield, William Mandeno. War letters, diaries and papers, 1916 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2007/37.
• MQ: the Quarterly Magazine of the Auckland War Memorial Museum
  Merry Christmas from the Front. (2006-2007). MQ: the Quarterly Magazine of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Summer: December 2006 - February 2007. Issues 109 p. 25-6.
• 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. 3: Includes portrait
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 109 "T.S.S. Tofua" - New Zealand's black watch, "the gallant forty-twa" : the journal of the Forty-Second New Zealand Rfts. on H.M.N.Z.T. 109 "T.S.S. Tofua" -- On board ship : 42 Reinforcements Printed by Cape Times Ltd. : [1918]