Eric Russell

Forenames

Eric AWMM

Surname

Russell AWMM

Also known as

Eric Russell AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/3147 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

7 Mar 1896 Kiwi Jocks Research
Queensdale Cottage, Peebles AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Bragan, corner Seddon and Ward Sts., Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

J.S. Russell (father), Te Puke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/3147 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 Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 16th (Waikato) Company AWMM

Son of James Scott Russell and Violet Foulis Russell, of "The Chase," Thundersley, Essex, England. Native of Peebles, Scotland

Next of Kin: Mr J. S. Russell, Thundersly, England (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

30 Sept 1918 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Marcoing British Cemetery, Nord, France AWMM II. A. 6. AWMM

Memorial name

• Roll of Honour, Devonport Primary School, granite tablet, 18 Kerr Street, Devonport, Auckland AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20808790
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/586668/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/586668
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 636
• Ahier, William Roland. War diary, 1917. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2004/76.
  References in Ahier, War diary, 1917. p. 16 March 1917; 30 April 1917
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Kiwi Jocks or Scottish-born New Zealand soldiers in the NZEF. Information kindly provided by Andrew Nixon, Scotland between 2009 and 2010.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.