World War One - Service number 6/3356 Lance Corporal Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion
Next of kin on embarkation: Robert Haxton Hume (father), Ahikiwi, Dargaville, New Zealand Embarkation details: 13 November 1915 from Wellington, New Zealand HMNZT 35 or HMNZT 36 Vessel was Willochra or Tofua Private Canterbury Infantry Battalion 8th Reinforcements
Campaigns: 1914-1916 Egypt, 1914-1919 Western Front Military service: 2 Company, C. 1. B. Wounded in action - died in hospital. Buried in Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM V.D.11.
Son of Robert and Margaret Hume, of Maropiu, Northern Wairoa.
Three brothers served in WWI, Richard Askew Hume (6/3356) and Charles Joseph Hume (3/2619) James Alison Hume (6/3355)
Text of Death notice: HUME. – On October 14, 1917, died of wounds received in France, Lance-Corporal Richard Askew (Dick), the dearly-loved eldest son of Robert and Margaret Hume, of Maropiu, Northern Wairoa; aged 29 years. After nearly two years of brave and active service he nobly fell. He bravely answered duty's call, He gave his life for one and all, But the unknown grave is the bitterest blow That only those who loved him know.
Auckland War Memorial Museum online cenotaph
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