Roman Catholic Division C, Row 16, Plots 86 & 88
“Maguire family's double tragedy”
One bullet caused chaos at a North Island military camp when a rifle was accidentally fired on March 16, 1942.
The weapon went off while it was being loaded by a soldier sitting on a stretcher in his tent.
The bullet passed through the man's foot and wounded another trooper who shared the same quarters.
It then struck Alphonsus Patrick Maguire who had just stopped to collect one of the pair for sentry duty.
The 32-year-old father of two was squatting at the entrance to the tent and waiting for his mate to get organised when he was hit in the right lower abdomen.
"It got me," he cried, rolling onto his side and clutching at the wound with both hands.
He died a few minutes before the camp doctor arrived.
Maguire originally came from Grey Lynn and had only been in camp for five weeks.
His wife Margaret and their children lived in Hastings where his body was transported by train for burial three days later with full military honours.
An inquest was held and the coroner found no blame could be attributed to anyone.
Maguire died just four years after his mother Annie dropped dead at a trotting meet in Auckland aged 64.
His name was etched into stone on a family grave at Waikumete cemetery where she was interred.
Also buried there was his older brother Vincent who was killed when the horse-driven butter delivery van he was driving crashed on its way down Newton Rd in Auckland City on November 27, 1920.
The 15 year-old applied the brakes when the horse bolted but was thrown out of the vehicle after it continued to career down the steep hill and hit a kerb.
A companion jumped out of the cab before the collision and escaped serious harm.
Vincent was taken to hospital where he died a day later as the result of multiple injuries.
A funeral was held at St Patrick's cathedral in the city – not too far away from Nelson St where the Maguire family lived.
Patriarch Joseph worked as a bricklayer and fathered six sons in total. He died on September 28, 1942, aged 71 and also lies in Waikumete.
source: Matthew Gray's Tales from the crypt
ACCIDENTS IN AUCKLAND.
BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED.
THROWN FROM BUTTER
As the result of a horse attached to a butter-van bolting in Newton Road at half-past six o'clock last evening a fifteen-year-old boy, named Vincent Maguire, is now lying in the Auckland Hospital in a critical condition. The boy was driving the van down Newton Road from the Symonds Street intersection in company with, a man whose name is not known, when the horse took fright and bolted. At the foot of the road there is a steep gradient, and here the boy was thrown out. The unfortunate lad sustained concussion and severe internal and external injuries, including a compound fracture of the right leg and abrasions to the face and head. His companion jumped clear of the vehicle soon after the horse bolted. The injured boy resides with his employer, Mr. R. J. Carbines, carrier, of Brown Street, Ponsonby.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19201127.2.34
WOMAN'S COLLAPSE.
AT TROTTING MEETING
DEATH IN AMBULANCE.
TREATED FOR HEART TROUBLE.
[By Telegraph. —Press Association] AUCKLAND, May 2.
While at the trotting meeting at Epsom on Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Annie Maguire, aged 64, of Browning Street, Grey Lynn, collapsed and was dead before she reached the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance.
No inquest will be held, as Mrs. Maguire had been receiving medical attention for heart trouble for some time.
Mrs. Maguire was seen to collapse as she was walking behind the totalisator and ambulance officers were called. She wad also attended by Dr. M. G. Pezaro.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS19380502.2.18
SOLDIER KILLED
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
FATALITY AT MILITARY CAMP.
TWO OTHERS WOUNDED
Tragedy visited a military camp shortly before 10 o’clock on Monday night, a soldier being killed when a rifle was accidentally discharged.
The victim was: — Trooper Alphonse Patrick Maguire, married, 32, husband of Mrs Maguire, Horetaunga Street, Hastings, and son of Mr Joseph Maguire, 19 Browning Street, Grey Lynn.
The deceased, and another soldier were due to go on sentry duty at 10 p.m., the deceased going to the tent in which the other soldier was resting to call him. While waiting for his companion to fix his web equipment, Trooper Maguire squatted at the entrance of the tent. Another member of the unit who was lying in bed in the tent was handed a rifle to load by the soldier who was going on sentry duty with deceased. This man was loading the rifle while sitting up in his bed when it suddenly discharged, the bullet passing in the direction of the entrance of the tent, striking Trooper Maguire in the right lower abdomen. The soldier who was loading the rifle called out, ''Did it get anyone?" deceased answering, ''It has got me.'' He rolled over holding his abdomen. Men in the tent went to deceased’s assistance and called the camp medical officer who arrived within a few minutes but Trooper Maguire was dead before his arrival.
Two other men were wounded —the Trooper who loaded the rifle was shot through a foot as he was sitting up in his bed. while another was shot in a leg. Both received medical attention.
An inquest was opened yesterday morning and after evidence ot identification had been given by Lieutenant T. C. Cobbald, was adjourned sine die. Lieutenant Cobbald said that from his experience Trooper Maguire was a sober, steady man. Deceased is survived by his wife and two children.
Trooper Maguire’s body was sent south yesterday by train. It was conveyed to the railway station on a military vehicle, headed by the camp band, and with a guard of honour marching on either side of the vehicle. The coffin was draped with a Union Jack, on top of which was the dead trooper’s military hat. Trooper Maguire was accorded full military honours.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FRTIM19420318.2.14
Inquest result:
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19420318.2.2
Plot 86: Ursula Manawa Maguire
John Everistus Maguire – Storeman
Plot 86-88: Joseph Maguire – Bricklayer
Plot 88: Vincent James Maguire (14) 1920
Annie Maguire
In Loving Memory
of
JOSEPH MAGUIRE
died 23 Sept. 1942, aged 71
also his beloved wife ANNIE
died 3rd May 1938, aged 64.
And their sons
VINCENT JAMES
died 27 Nov. 1920 aged 16.
PATRICK
died 16th March 1942.
Interred at Hastings.
In Loving Memory
of
URSULA MANAWA
beloved wife of
John MAGUIRE
loved mother of Doreen, Eian & Martin
died 26th Dec. 1972 aged 64,
Also her beloved husband
JOHN EVERISTUS MAGUIRE
died 12th Oct. 1983 aged 79.
R.I.P
MAGUIRE.— November 27, 1920, at the Auckland Hospital (as the result of an accident), Vincent James, dearly-beloved son of Joseph and Annie Maguire; aged 14 years and 10 months. —R.l.P.
Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral at 9 a.m. to-day (Monday), the funeral leaving the cathedral at 10 a.m. for Waikumete Cemetery.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19201129.2.2.4
ROLL OF HONOUR
MAGUIRE. —On March 16 (accidentally killed) Trooper Alphonse Patrick, son of Joseph and the late Annie Maguire, brother of Aubrey, Clifford, John and Stephen.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19420318.2.2
MAGUIRE. —On Wednesday, 23rd, at Auckland Hospital, Joseph, dearly-beloved husband of the late Annie Maguire, and loved father of Aubrey. Clifford, John and Stephen, and the late Patrick. Requiem Mass at St. Joseph's, Friday, 8.45 a.m., leaving afterward for Waikumete Cemetery.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19420924.2.3
Roman Catholic Division C, Row 16, Plots 86 & 88
“Maguire family's double tragedy”
One bullet caused chaos at a North Island military camp when a rifle was accidentally fired on March 16, 1942.
The weapon went off while it was being loaded by a soldier sitting on a stretcher in his tent.
The bullet passed through the man's foot and wounded another trooper who shared the same quarters.
It then struck Alphonsus Patrick Maguire who had just stopped to collect one of the pair for sentry duty.
The 32-year-old father of two was squatting at the entrance to the tent and waiting for his mate to get organised when he was hit in the right lower abdomen.
"It got me," he cried, rolling onto his side and clutching at the wound with both hands.
He died a few minutes before the camp doctor arrived.
Maguire originally came from Grey Lynn and had only been in camp for five weeks.
His wife Margaret and their children lived in Hastings where his body was transported by train for burial three days later with full military honours.
An inquest was held and the coroner found no blame could be attributed to anyone.
Maguire died just four years after his mother Annie dropped dead at a trotting meet in Auckland aged 64.
His name was etched into stone on a family grave at Waikumete cemetery where she was interred.
Also buried there was his older brother Vincent who was killed when the horse-driven butter delivery van he was driving crashed on its way down Newton Rd in Auckland City on November 27, 1920.
The 15 year-old applied the brakes when the horse bolted but was thrown out of the vehicle after it continued to career down the steep hill and hit a kerb.
A companion jumped out of the cab before the collision and escaped serious harm.
Vincent was taken to hospital where he died a day later as the result of multiple injuries.
A funeral was held at St Patrick's cathedral in the city – not too far away from Nelson St where the Maguire family lived.
Patriarch Joseph worked as a bricklayer and fathered six sons in total. He died on September 28, 1942, aged 71 and also lies in Waikumete.
source: Matthew Gray's Tales from the crypt
ACCIDENTS IN AUCKLAND.
BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED.
THROWN FROM BUTTER
As the result of a horse attached to a butter-van bolting in Newton Road at half-past six o'clock last evening a fifteen-year-old boy, named Vincent Maguire, is now lying in the Auckland Hospital in a critical condition. The boy was driving the van down Newton Road from the Symonds Street intersection in company with, a man whose name is not known, when the horse took fright and bolted. At the foot of the road there is a steep gradient, and here the boy was thrown out. The unfortunate lad sustained concussion and severe internal and external injuries, including a compound fracture of the right leg and abrasions to the face and head. His companion jumped clear of the vehicle soon after the horse bolted. The injured boy resides with his employer, Mr. R. J. Carbines, carrier, of Brown Street, Ponsonby.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19201127.2.34
WOMAN'S COLLAPSE.
AT TROTTING MEETING
DEATH IN AMBULANCE.
TREATED FOR HEART TROUBLE.
[By Telegraph. —Press Association] AUCKLAND, May 2.
While at the trotting meeting at Epsom on Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Annie Maguire, aged 64, of Browning Street, Grey Lynn, collapsed and was dead before she reached the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance.
No inquest will be held, as Mrs. Maguire had been receiving medical attention for heart trouble for some time.
Mrs. Maguire was seen to collapse as she was walking behind the totalisator and ambulance officers were called. She wad also attended by Dr. M. G. Pezaro.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THS19380502.2.18
SOLDIER KILLED
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
FATALITY AT MILITARY CAMP.
TWO OTHERS WOUNDED
Tragedy visited a military camp shortly before 10 o’clock on Monday night, a soldier being killed when a rifle was accidentally discharged.
The victim was: — Trooper Alphonse Patrick Maguire, married, 32, husband of Mrs Maguire, Horetaunga Street, Hastings, and son of Mr Joseph Maguire, 19 Browning Street, Grey Lynn.
The deceased, and another soldier were due to go on sentry duty at 10 p.m., the deceased going to the tent in which the other soldier was resting to call him. While waiting for his companion to fix his web equipment, Trooper Maguire squatted at the entrance of the tent. Another member of the unit who was lying in bed in the tent was handed a rifle to load by the soldier who was going on sentry duty with deceased. This man was loading the rifle while sitting up in his bed when it suddenly discharged, the bullet passing in the direction of the entrance of the tent, striking Trooper Maguire in the right lower abdomen. The soldier who was loading the rifle called out, ''Did it get anyone?" deceased answering, ''It has got me.'' He rolled over holding his abdomen. Men in the tent went to deceased’s assistance and called the camp medical officer who arrived within a few minutes but Trooper Maguire was dead before his arrival.
Two other men were wounded —the Trooper who loaded the rifle was shot through a foot as he was sitting up in his bed. while another was shot in a leg. Both received medical attention.
An inquest was opened yesterday morning and after evidence ot identification had been given by Lieutenant T. C. Cobbald, was adjourned sine die. Lieutenant Cobbald said that from his experience Trooper Maguire was a sober, steady man. Deceased is survived by his wife and two children.
Trooper Maguire’s body was sent south yesterday by train. It was conveyed to the railway station on a military vehicle, headed by the camp band, and with a guard of honour marching on either side of the vehicle. The coffin was draped with a Union Jack, on top of which was the dead trooper’s military hat. Trooper Maguire was accorded full military honours.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FRTIM19420318.2.14
Inquest result:
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19420318.2.2
Plot 86: Ursula Manawa Maguire
John Everistus Maguire – Storeman
Plot 86-88: Joseph Maguire – Bricklayer
Plot 88: Vincent James Maguire (14) 1920
Annie Maguire
In Loving Memory
of
JOSEPH MAGUIRE
died 23 Sept. 1942, aged 71
also his beloved wife ANNIE
died 3rd May 1938, aged 64.
And their sons
VINCENT JAMES
died 27 Nov. 1920 aged 16.
PATRICK
died 16th March 1942.
Interred at Hastings.
In Loving Memory
of
URSULA MANAWA
beloved wife of
John MAGUIRE
loved mother of Doreen, Eian & Martin
died 26th Dec. 1972 aged 64,
Also her beloved husband
JOHN EVERISTUS MAGUIRE
died 12th Oct. 1983 aged 79.
R.I.P
MAGUIRE.— November 27, 1920, at the Auckland Hospital (as the result of an accident), Vincent James, dearly-beloved son of Joseph and Annie Maguire; aged 14 years and 10 months. —R.l.P.
Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral at 9 a.m. to-day (Monday), the funeral leaving the cathedral at 10 a.m. for Waikumete Cemetery.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19201129.2.2.4
ROLL OF HONOUR
MAGUIRE. —On March 16 (accidentally killed) Trooper Alphonse Patrick, son of Joseph and the late Annie Maguire, brother of Aubrey, Clifford, John and Stephen.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19420318.2.2
MAGUIRE. —On Wednesday, 23rd, at Auckland Hospital, Joseph, dearly-beloved husband of the late Annie Maguire, and loved father of Aubrey. Clifford, John and Stephen, and the late Patrick. Requiem Mass at St. Joseph's, Friday, 8.45 a.m., leaving afterward for Waikumete Cemetery.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19420924.2.3