Geburtsdatum: 4/12/1895

Geburtsort: Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand

Beruf: Clerk

Land: New Zealand

Truppe: New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Rang: Gunner

Dienstnummer: 13505

Einberufung datum: 09/02/1916

Einberufung ort: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Einheiten:  —  New Zealand Field Artillery, 4th (Howitzer) Bty.  (Letzte bekannte Einheit)

Sterbedatum: 26/10/1917

Sterbeort: No. 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Nine Elms, Poperinge, Belgien

Todesursache: Verwundet

Alter: 22

British War Medal Medaille — 12/10/1921

Victory Medal Medaille — 23/08/1922

Gunner Forde Hugh Douglas (4th Battery, 3th Brigade New Zealand Royal Field Artillery, Divisional Toorps, New Zealand Division) suffered a wound to his right hand and thigh due to German shelling on the 25th October 1917. The New Zealand artillery had moved their guns forward to the positions near Winnipeg-Kansas Cross Roads. Guns were also placed at Schuler Farm and Spree Farm. German artillery and bombers shelled these positions regularly. Gunner Forde was taken to the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station (C.C.S.), where he died of his wounds the next day. He was buried at Nine Elms British Cemetery. On his Service Record it is first mentioned that he was buried at 27.L.22.d.6.3. which corresponds with Lijssenthoek Cemetery and Remy Siding. On the next line Nine Elms is mentioned, so we presume that the first coordinate was an error.

Norman Arthur Forde  Brother

Byrne J.R., New Zealand Artillery in the Field 1914-1918 (Eastbourne, Antony Rowe Ltd., 1920), pg. 196 -198. Verwendete Quellen

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/136669

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=122845a9-2c77-43c6-ab4e-4490eafae7c7

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7174603

Online Cenotaph (Auckland Museum) https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/c5009

The NZEF Project (UNSW Canberra) https://nzef.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=84210