Ernest John Rhind

Forenames

Ernest John AWMM

Surname

Rhind AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/3140 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

15 Jan 1892 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 117 Richardson Street, Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs M. Rhind (mother), 117 Richardson Street, Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Battle of Flers-Courcelette AWMM
• Battle of Messines AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/3140 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 09 Oct 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 32 or HMNZT 33 or HMNZT 34 AWMM Vessel was Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo AWMM Private AWMM Canterbury Infantry Battalion AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Staff Sergeant AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Ernest Rhind was the son of Margaret and the late Alexander Rhind, of Lyttelton, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

15 Dec 1917 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM III. G. 29. AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20805473
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/96858/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/96858
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/1571
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 612
• Jenkin, M. (2015). For King and Country Heathcote Boys who paid the ultimate price with their lives 1914-1918. Self Published.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.