Ewen George Pilling
Born 20 Dec 1893 - Died 7 Jun 1917
- Service number
- WWI 8/1601 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Lieutenant/Military AWMM Otago Infantry Regiment AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Ewen George AWMM
- Surname
- Pilling AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
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- Service number
- WWI 8/1601 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
- Presbyterian, Christian AWMM
Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 20 Dec 1893 AWMM
Millers Flat, Otago, New Zealand AWMM - Date of birth
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- Place of birth
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- Birth notes
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- Address before enlistment
- Unknown AWMM Schoolhouse, Milburn, New Zealand AWMM
- Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- S.G. Pilling (father), Milburn, Otago, New Zealand AWMM
- S.E. Pilling (father), Milburn, Otago, New Zealand AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- Messines AWMM
- 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 8/1601 AWMM
- Military service
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- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
- WW1 Student/Civilian AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 17 or HMNZT 18 or HMNZT 19 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima AWMM Sergeant AWMM Otago Infantry Battalion AWMM 3rd Reinforcements AWMM - WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 17th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM
- WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
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- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Lieutenant/Military AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Parents Samuel Ewen Pilling and Mary Elizabeth Pilling, Inglis Street, Mosgiel, Otago
Had two embarkations
Auckland War Memorial Museum Scars on the Heart WWI " Life at Anzac" display. Display item is a quotation by Ewen Pilling. "The heat was intense. So was our thirst and we got only half a bottle of water per man per day...Great was our delight when our first drink of tea came along the trench, passed from hand to hand in a kerosene tin. It was full of tea leaves, and by the time it reached our end of the trench it was muddy from the dusty walls - but it was nectar."
SuppNom: Ex 3rd Reinforcements. AWMM
About death
- Death
- 7 Jun 1917 AWMM
Age 23 AWMM - Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Death notes
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- Cemetery
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- Cemetery name
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- Grave reference
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- Obituary
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- Memorial name
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- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM
Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20801486
Further Reference - Other military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880670
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1738189/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1738189
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- References
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Vol1: 583 - New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
41: 7 - Boyack, N. (1989). Behind the lines : the lives of New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. Wellington, N.Z.: Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press.
- New Zealand at the Front a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division (1917). London : Cassell.
1917 issue, page141. - 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 - HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
- Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
- Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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