D'Arcy Roycroft Newell

Forenames

D'Arcy Roycroft AWMM

Surname

Newell AWMM

Service number

WWI 8/2687 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

22 Mar 1895 AWMM
New Plymouth, New Zealand AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Pre 19 Apr 1915 AWMM Powderham Street, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs A.M. Newell (mother), Powderham Street, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Aug 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 8/2687 AWMM

Military training

• Egypt AWMM
• France AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 19 Apr 1915 AWMM Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Aug 1915-19 Sep 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 27 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM 6th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment AWMM

Death

13 Apr 1918 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Brockenhurst (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Hampshire, England AWMM Plot A, Row 4, Grave 13 AWMM

Memorial name

• Memorial gates, New Plymouth Boy's High School, New Plymouth, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial plaque, St Mary's Church, New Plymouth AWMM
• Memorial plaque, Bank of New Zealand (Officers of the BNZ who laid down their lives in the Great War AD 1914-1919), BNZ Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21380035
  Further Reference
• No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst
  http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm
  Further Reference

References

• Bank of New Zealand officers who enlisted for military service in the First World War. Research completed by Paul Hickford (2014-2017).
• Church, C. (2002). New Zealand graves at Brockenhurst : 93 New Zealand soldiers remembered from World War One. Hampshire, England: Author.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 536
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• The Magazine Of The Sixth Reinforcements NZEF : published at sea on 28th August & 11th September, 1915