This is my great-uncle.
My great-uncle
This is where he lived with his mother and father, brothers and sisters.
Family Home
This is the ship that took him to war.
Troopship Maunganui Deck scene on the troopship Maunganui. Atkinson, J :Photographs taken in the Middle East during World War I, and postcards of New Zealand. Ref: PAColl-0095-002. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23169854
This is where he was wounded. In the guts.
Poppies, Gallipoli
This is where he died; on a hospital ship.
Place of Death At Sea, HMHS Neuralia ex Gallipoli
Date of Death 15 August 1915
Year of Death 1915
Cause of Death Died of wounds
Buried at sea, 1915, August 15, somewhere between Gallipoli and Alexandria.
But remembered here
Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
and here.
One of Otago’s 1900
He was one of the many; one of the 1,900 young ones, of Otago, killed during World War One; one of the 18,000 New Zealanders who died between 1914-1918; one of the 888,246 British and Commonwealth fatalities. One of…….. the list that never ends.
Does he rest in peace? I can’t.
Acknowledgement: with thanks to my brother for his photos of the Poppies and the Lone Pine Memorial, at Gallipoli.
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