L/Cpl
William Whitehouse Blair

Informationen zu Geburt

Geburtsdatum:
27/06/1875
Geburtsort:
Taieri, Otago, New Zealand

Allgemeine Informationen

Beruf:
Lagerarbeiter

Informationen zum Armeedienst

Land:
New Zealand
Truppe:
New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Rang:
Lance Corporal
Dienstnummer:
15865
Einberufung datum:
06/04/1916
Einberufung ort:
Trentham, Wellington, New Zealand
Einheiten:
 —  New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Bn.  (Letzte bekannte Einheit)

Informationen zu Tod

Sterbedatum:
24/11/1917
Sterbeort:
Reutel, Beselare, Belgien
Todesursache:
Im Kampf gefallen
Alter:
42

Begräbnisplatz

Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood
Grabstelle: II
Reihe: C
Grab: 6

Punkte von Interesse 3

#1 Geburtsort
#2 Einberufung ort
#3 Ort des Todes (ungefähr)

Meine Geschichte

William Whitehouse Blair was born in 1875 in Taieri, Otago, New Zealand. He was the son of Robert and Ann Blair. William worked as a storeman, before he enlisted in April 1916.

William served in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 3rd Battalion. He was appointed Lance Corporal in October 1917. After the Battle of Passchendaele, in the night of the 19th and 20th November 1917 the 2nd and 3rd Battalions relieved the 1st and 4th Battalions in the frontline at the hamlet of Reutel. The brigade’s headquarters were established in the old German tunnels beneath the Butte in Polygon Wood.

On the 20th of November headquarters were heavily shelled. German snipers were very troublesome and in the following days a sharpshooter battle ensued between the Germans and the New Zealanders. William Whitehouse Blair was killed on 24 November 1917. Two days before his Battalion was relieved from the line,. He was buried near the Butte. William, 42, was one of the 41 casualties of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in November 1917.

Dateien 1

Quellen 5

Auckland Cenotaph
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C1262?n=15865&w=World%20War%20I%2C%201914-1918&ordinal=0&from=%2Fwar-memorial%2Fonline-cenotaph%2Fsearch
Verwendete Quellen
CWGC
https://www.cwgc.org/
Verwendete Quellen
NZEF-Project
https://nzef.adfa.edu.au/
Verwendete Quellen
The Long Long Trail
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/
Verwendete Quellen
W.S. Austin. The official history of the NZ Rifle Brigade East-Sussex: (The Earl of Liverpool's Own).The Naval & Military Press Ltd., 2007, pp 251-255.
Verwendete Quellen