Edwin Searle

Forenames

Edwin AWMM

Surname

Searle AWMM

Also known as

Edwin Searle AWMM

Service number

WWI 13/2366 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

26 Mar 1895 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Kaipaki, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs M.B. Searle (mother), 7 Union Road, Exeter, England 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 13/2366 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Military Medal (MM) AWMM
  MM. London Gazette, 16 August 1917, p8430, Rec No 958: AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Embarkation details

WW1 09 Oct 1915-30 Nov 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 32 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Trooper AWMM Auckland Mounted Rifles AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Son of Thomas and Mary Bath Searle of Shutterton Farm, Starcross, Exeter, England

Next of Kin: Mr J. Searle, Kaipaki, Ohaupo, Waikato (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

20 Jan 1918 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM III O 35 AWMM

Memorial name

• Hautapu RSA Memorial 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, Leamington, Cambridge AWMM
• Cambridge Cenotaph, Victoria St, Cambridge 3434 AWMM
• Cambridge World War One War Memorials 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/R7815539
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/96933/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/96933
  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. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 650
• 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
• Dry Rations, or, The Aparima Apparition : with which is incorporated the Waikanae wash-out and The Tauherenikau trumpeter : unofficial organ of the 7th Rfts, Transport No. 32
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• 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.
• Nicol, C.G. (1921). The story of two campaigns: Official war history of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Wilson & Horton.