Donald William Rutledge
| Donald William Rutledge | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 August 1891 Dunedin, New Zealand |
| 💀Died | 9 January 1956 (aged 64) Port Albert, New Zealand9 January 1956 (aged 64) |
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Donald William Rutledge, OBE JP, 7 August 1891 – 1956, was an ANZAC who served for New Zealand during World War I in Samoa, Gallipoli and France. He was born in Dunedin, eldest son of Barret Rutledge (born Lyttelton, of Irish descent) and Elizabeth Donaldson (born in Edinburgh).
Military service
Rutledge was 23 and living in Wellesley Street, Auckland, when on 8 August 1914 he enlisted with the 1st New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Auckland Infantry Battalion, and was assigned Regimental Number 12/2560.[1] Prior to living in Auckland he had been in Wellington and served in the Wellington Highland Rifles, B Company, 5th Regiment.
Departing New Zealand on 15 August 1914 as part of the 1370 strong Samoa Expeditionary Force, which experienced New Zealand's first action in World War I, he took part in the capture of Samoa from the Germans. The British government had indicated it would be a great and urgent Imperial service if New Zealand forces seized the German wireless station near Apia which was one of several radio stations used by the German East Asia Squadron. He returned to Wellington on the Tahune on 14 April 1915.
He embarked for Suez on 13 June 1915 as part of the New Zealand 5th Reinforcement in the Machine Gun Corps. He was in Egypt between 24 July and 6 August when he was shipped out to Gallipoli in Turkey to join the ANZAC[2]
References
External links
- Donald William Rutledge at Online Cenotaph
- Archives New Zealand – RUTLEDGE, Donald William – WW1 12/2560 – Army. Record Number (R20808910)
- NZ RSA Gallipoli "an abridged version of the Gallipoli Diary from Major Fred Waite DSO, The New Zealanders at Gallipoli (1919") Archived 31 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- New Zealand RSA ANZAC Remembrance Day Archived 6 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Capture of German Samoa
- New Zealand and the First World War – Gallipoli and the Balkans
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