Thomas Rawlings Mould

Thomas Rawlings Mould CB
Thomas Rawlings Mould, c. 1866
Born	(1805-05-31)31 May 1805[1][2] Portsea, Hampshire[3]
Died	13 June 1886(1886-06-13) (aged 81)[2] Queen's Road, Bayswater, London[4]
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	Board of Ordnance British Army
Years of service	1826–1867[5]
Rank	Major General
Service number	606
Unit	Corps of Royal Engineers
Commands	CRE, New Zealand, 1856–66[1] Auckland Regiment of New Zealand Militia, 1860–[6] CRE, Portsmouth, 1866–67[1]
Campaigns	New Zealand Wars Taranaki, 1860–61[5] Mahoetahi, 1860
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath, 1862[1][3] New Zealand War Medal[1] Good Service Pension[1]
Relations	William Temple (son-in-law)[7]
Other work	Inspector of Public Works, New Zealand, 1857–[8] Justice of the Peace, New Zealand, 1860– [9]

Major General Thomas Rawlings Mould CB (31 May 1805–13 June 1886) was an English military engineer of the Corps of Royal Engineers[5] and Colonel of the Auckland Regiment of New Zealand Militia.[2]

Mould was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1826.[2] He served on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland from November 1827 to 17 August 1835, in the West Indies from 7 May 1836 to 30 September 1839,[1] and designed covered slips at Chatham Dockyard in the 1840s. He went to New Zealand in 1855.[2] He designed the Upper Hutt blockhouse, built in 1860 to protect European settlers during the Wellington Wars, and planned the same type of structure at Blockhouse Bay in Auckland. He also did work in connection with Albert Barracks in Auckland.

Publications

• Mould, Thomas Rawlings (1862). "IV. On the Engineer Operations carried on in New Zealand during the War in 1860-61. Extracted from Reports and Journals sent by Col. Mould, C.B., Commanding Royal Engineer in New Zealand, to the Deputy Adjutant General, Royal Engineers" (PDF). Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers. 11 New Series. Woolwich: 95–110.
• Mould, Thomas Rawlings (1869). "III. Sketch of Military Proceedings in New Zealand, from the Termination of the Waitara Campaign, in March, 1861" (PDF). Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers. 17 New Series. Woolwich: 12–42.

References

1. WO 25/3913. Statement of Services of Thomas Rawlings Mould of the Royal Engineers with a Record of such Particulars as may be useful in case of his Death, p. 102
2. Crawford, J A B. "Thomas Rawlings Mould". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
3. Dix Noonan Webb (28 February 2018), "Single Orders and Decorations", An Auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, London: Dix Noonan Webb, p. 82
4. "Hawke's Bay Herald". Hawke's Bay Herald. Vol. 22, no. 7522. 24 August 1886. p. 2.
5. Connolly, Thomas William John (1898). Richard Fielding Edwards (ed.). Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers from 1660 to 1898. Chatham: The Royal Engineers Institute. p. 24.
6. "New Zealand Gazette". The New-Zealander. Vol. 16, no. 1459. 11 April 1860. p. 6.
7. "Married". The New-Zealander. Vol. 18, no. 1735. 25 October 1862. p. 3.
8. "New Zealand Gazette". The New-Zealander (Supplement). Vol. 14, no. 1223. 6 January 1858. p. 1.
9. "New Zealand Gazette". The New-Zealander. Vol. 16, no. 1485. 11 July 1860. p. 5.