Donald Peter Brown Hosie

Corporal

Conflict:

WW1

Additional Information:

Son of Robert and Sarah Hosie, of "Tauranga," Wairoa St., Roslyn, Dunedin, New Zealand. Born at Otago.

References:

CWGC

Archives New Zealand

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

"More than half (1545) of the soldiers named [on the Dunedin Roll of Honour] died during World War 1.
A number, including 22-year-old Corporal Donald Peter Brown Hosie, lost their lives at Passchendaele, on New Zealand’s bloodiest day, October 12th, 1917.
Before he enlisted, Hosie, of Kirkland Hill, Kaikorai, worked as an architect for the Dunedin firm of Edmund Anscombe and Associates.
Just prior to his conscription he had won a competition to design Wanganui’s new art gallery, the Sarjeant Gallery, and authorities agreed to a request by the then town mayor to defer his overseas posting until he had completed the working drawings.
Widely regarded as among the finest provincial art gallery in New Zealand, the gallery was opened by Prime Minister William Massey in September 1919.
It would be Hosie’s only work.
He died three weeks after the foundation stone was laid. He now lies buried at the Passchendaele New British Cemetery." [Source:https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0906/S00015/stories-behind-dunedin-rol... accessed 17/08/2020]

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Casualty

Service Number:

40951

Name:

Donald Peter Brown Hosie

Rank:

Corporal

Date of Birth:

23 March 1895

Place of Birth:

Naseby, Otago, New Zealand

Education:

Kaikorai Primary School

Next of Kin:

R Hosie (father), Kirkland Hill, Kaikorai, Dunedin

Religion:

Presbyterian

Date of Enlistment:

28 September 1916

Locality on Enlistment:

Kirkland Hill, Kaikorai, Dunedin

Place of Enlistment:

Dunedin, New Zealand

Marital Status:

Single

Occupation on Enlistment:

Architect

Employer:

E Ascombe, Dunedin

Unit:

NZEF, Otago Regiment, 2 Battalion, 10 Company

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Killed in action

Date of Death:

12 October 1917

Day of Death:

Friday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW1

Embarkation Details

Embarkation Body:

New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Embarkation Place:

Wellington, New Zealand

Embarkment Date:

14 March 1917

Transport:

HMNZT 79

Vessel:

Ruapehu

Destination:

Devonport, England

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Passchendaele New British Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

XV. C. 13.

Cemetery Location:

Belgium