Hugh Nelson Jickell
Born 1890 - Died 19 Oct 1917
- Service number
- WWI 11/65 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Last rank
- WW1 Lieutenant/Military AWMM Auckland Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Hugh Nelson AWMM
- Surname
- Jickell AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
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- Service number
- WWI 11/65 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 1890 AWMM
- 12 Sept 1891 Public Source
- Date of birth
- 12 September 1891Public - Jenifer - Researcher - 12 December 2018 - Military File
- Place of birth
- NelsonPublic - Jenifer - Researcher - 12 December 2018 - Military File
- Birth notes
- Son of Captain Samuel Jickell - Palmerston North.Public - Jenifer - Researcher - 12 December 2018 - Military File
- Address before enlistment
- Fenton Street, Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
- Fenton Street, Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Captain Samuel Jickell (father), Cook Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand AWMM
- Captain Samuel Jickell (father), Cook Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
- 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 11/65 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 Engineer/Military AWMM
- WW1 Engineer/Military AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 6 or HMNZT 10 AWMM Vessel was Orari or Arawa AWMM Sergeant AWMM Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM Main Body AWMM - WW1 02 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 73 AWMM Vessel was Opawa AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 20th Reinforcements, (2nd Draft), Headquarters Staff, Ships Quartermasters AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM
- WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
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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
- 19 Oct 1917 {Age 27} AWMM Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Wounds Wounds received at Passchendaele. AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Lieutenant/Military AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Son of Samuel and Ellen Jickell, of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England.
Left New Zealand with the Main Body as Regimental Sergeant Major.
Gained commission as Second Lieutenant on 29 July 1916 (Studholme 1928).
Embarked for a second time as ship's Quartermaster on 2 January 1917 aboard the SS 'Opawa' with the 20th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment. Arrived at London, England, on 27 March 1917.
Appointed to rank of Lieutenant in the Field on 5 October 1917 (Studholme 1928).
The Auckland Museum Library's manuscripts collection contains a letter (MS 2005/18, item 2) outlining the circumstances of Jickell's death.
SuppNom: Ex Main Body.
Next of Kin: Capt S. Jickell, Cook st, Palmerston North (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM - Lieutenant Jickell's father - Samuel Jickell (born England 1856; died Palmerston North 1939)
emigrated from England to New Zealand to undertake Engineering employment at Auckland - and later Nelson. Samuel Jickell was the City Engineer at Nelson - and designed and was responsible for the engineering work in the construction of Rocks Road (the road from Port Nelson to Tahunanui).
Two brothers died on war service during the South African Wars.Public - Jenifer - Researcher - 12 December 2018 - New Zealand History Online. - Born Nelson.
Remembered at his birth place of Nelson - on the World War 1 'Wall of Remembrance' at Founders Park, Nelson.Public - Jenifer - Researcher - 12 December 2018 - Researcher
- Son of Samuel and Ellen Jickell, of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England.
About death
- Death
- 19 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age 27 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
- Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM VI.A.3. AWMM
- Cemetery name
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- Grave reference
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- Obituary
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- Memorial name
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- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18053497
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/136909/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/136909
Further Reference - Passchendaele Museum Profile
https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/2976
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- 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.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Vol1: 369 - New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
49: 3 - MacGregor, Bill. Papers relating to World Wars I and II. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2005/18.
- Studholme, J. (1928). New Zealand Expeditionary Force record of personal services during the war of officers, nurses, and first-class warrant officers, and other facts relating to the N.Z.E.F. : unofficial but based on official records. Wellington, N.Z.: Government Printer.
p. 169. - Williams, E. G. (1914-1918). [Williams Album 3]. Auckland War Memorial Museum - Tamaki Paenga Hira. PH-ALB-212.
- 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.
- Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
- Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
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