Thomas Bernard O'CONNOR

Regimental number11/1263
AddressRaetihi
Marital statusSingle
Next of kinMother, Mrs E Barts, c/o Mrs H Larkin, Otaki
Rank on embarkationTrooper
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th Reinforcements, Wellington Mounted Rifles
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board Tahiti on 13 June 1915
Final rankSergeant
Final unitNew Zealand Machine Gun Corps
FateDied of wounds 18 July 1918
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialBagneux British Cemetery (Plot III, Row D, Grave No 15), Gezaincourt, France
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Mother: Mrs E. Barth, Wanganui
Medals

Military Medal

'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led a section after its Officer had been wounded and worked untiringly regardless of his life to engage machine guns and snipers.'
Source: 'London Gazette'
Date: 26 January 1918

Other detailsMedals: Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Wellington Mounted Rifles/Fifth