Ernest Alfred Billing

Forenames

• Ernest Alfred AWMM
• Ernest Alfred
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Surname

Billing AWMM

Service number

WWI 10/3832 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

22 Sep 1890

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Place of birth

Rahotu, Taranaki

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Birth notes

son of Thomas John and Emma Jane Billing of New Plymouth

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Next of kin

Thomas John Billing (father), Farmer, Hine Street, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 10/3832 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Military Medal (MM) AWMM
  London Gazette, 13 March 1918, p3254, Rec No 1794: AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 04 Mar 1916-08 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 47 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM 10th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment AWMM

Next of Kin: Miss E. L. Billing, New Plymouth (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

12 Apr 1918 AWMM
Age  27 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France AWMM I, L, 19 AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22276231
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/35195/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/35195
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  26: 11
• 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. 4: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 47. The Willochra tatler, or, The unvarished truth of some companies of the 10th Reinforcements, N.Z.E.F. (1916). Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch Press Company Limited, printers.