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Full Name
Mitchell Welby Tait
Rank Last Held
Sapper
Forename(s)
Mitchell Welby
Surname
Tait
War
World War I, 1914-1918
Serial No.
4/1100
Gender
Male
First Known Rank
Sapper
Next of Kin
Mrs A. Tait (mother), Dura, Hunterville, New Zealand
Marital Status
Single
Enlistment Address
103 Ferguson Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Military District
Wellington
Body on Embarkation
1st Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Embarkation Unit
Divisional Signallers
Embarkation Date
9 October 1915
Place of Embarkation
Wellington, New Zealand
Transport
Vessel
Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Destination
Suez, Egypt
Nominal Roll Number
Vol1
Page on Nominal Roll
709
Last Unit Served
New Zealand Engineers, Divisional Signal Company
Place of Death
Belgium
Date of Death
16 October 1917
Age at Death
22
Year of Death
1917
Cause of Death
Died of wounds
Cemetery Name
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne, France
Grave Reference
VIII. I. 62.
Biographical Notes
Son of Arthur Tait, of Tiriraukawa, Mataroa
Description of Image
Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917
Archives NZ source
Military personnel file
Sources Used
  • Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume I. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1914-1919
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission. URL: http://www.cwgc.org