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WILLIAMS, Harold Whitmore
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Date 06/04/1876 Place of Birth Auckland, New Zealand

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Occupation War correspondent
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Served with New Zealand Armed Forces (?) Served in War correspondent
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Death

Date 18 November 1928 Age 52 years
Place of Death 7 Knaresborough Place, Earls Court, Middlesex
Cause Grave illness & subsequent operation
Notices The Times, London, England, 19 & 20 November 1928
Memorial or Cemetery Brompton Cemetery, West Brompton, Greater London, England
Memorial Reference ID 31347950
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Harold Whitmore Williams was born on 6 April 1876, the eldest son of Rev. Williams James and Alice Mary (née Hocking) Williams. It was while the family was at Nelson that Harold’s mother died (November 1905). His father married again, in 1908, to Alice Matilda Jeffrey. Their son, Geoffrey Alexander born in 1909, was to die at just 15 years of age. Of the seven sons of William and Alice, six saw service in the war. The second son Hugh Hosking Williams who served in World War I and World War II with the Merchant Navy, died a prisoner of war in 1945. Aubrey Lewis Williams enlisted with the New Zealand Forces in London and was also a war correspondent. Owen Wallis Williams served in World War I and returned to New Zealand; the sixth son Bertram Victor was killed in action in 1917 at Messines, after serving in all arenas; and the youngest son, Sydney Lory Williams, enlisted with the Australian Forces and lived afterwards in New South Wales. The Reverend Williams died in 1936, predeceased by Harold, Bertram, and the only son of his second marriage. Captain Hugh was then in Hong Kong, Aubrey was in London, Owen was chaplain of Christ’s College, Norman had moved to Christchurch, and Sydney was an inter-colonial steamship officer. The Reverend Williams died in 1936, predeceased by Harold, Bertram, and the only son of his second marriage. Captain Hugh was then in Hong Kong, Aubrey was in London, Owen was chaplain of Christ’s College, Norman had moved to Christchurch, and Sydney was an inter-colonial steamship officer.

Sources

NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [March2014]; School Admission record (Canterbury Branch NZSG); Press, 1 February 1893, Timaru Herald, 20 March 1893, 7 April 1893, 22 December 1893, 24 January 1916, Southland Times, 4 July 1914, Feilding Star, 31 July 1917, Northern Advocate, 19 November 1928, Evening Post, 19 November 1928 [x 2], Auckland Star, 19 November 1928, Otago Daily Times, 22 November 1928 (Papers Past) [08 March 2014, 27 & 28 November 2017]

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