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Full Name
Henry Ewart Harris
Rank Last Held
Rifleman
Forename(s)
Henry Ewart
Surname
Harris
Also Known As
Henry Edward
War
World War I, 1914-1918
Serial No.
24/167
Gender
Male
First Known Rank
Rifleman
Next of Kin
Mrs Maria Harris (mother), Mount Somers, Canterbury, New Zealand
Marital Status
Single
Enlistment Address
Broadway, Reefton, New Zealand
Military District
Canterbury
Body on Embarkation
2nd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Embarkation Unit
A Company
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
306
Campaigns
Messines
Last Unit Served
New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Place of Death
Belgium
Date of Death
7 June 1917
Year of Death
1917
Cause of Death
Killed in action
Cemetery Name
Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Mesen, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Reference
VI. C. 37.
Description of Image
  • Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917
  • Ashburton War Memorial. Photo G.A. Fortune, 2003.
  • Ashburton War Memorial. Panel 1 (WW1), names, marble panel. Photo G.A. Fortune, 2003.
  • Ashburton War Memorial. Commemoration panel WW1 and WW2, bronze plaque. Photo G.A. Fortune, 2003
  • Ashburton War Memorial. Commemoration panel WW1 1914 - 1918, marble panel. Photo G.A. Fortune, 2003
Additional Information
Listed incorrectly as as Henry Edward Harris on the Nominal Roll
Archives NZ source
Military personnel file
Further References
New Zealand at the Front (1917), page 141
Sources Used
  • Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume I. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1914-1919
  • Correspondence with family
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission. URL: http://www.cwgc.org
  • New Zealand at the front. (1917). London: Cassell and Company.