Clarence Adrian Seay

Forenames

Clarence Adrian AWMM

Surname

Seay AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/3459 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 44 Barrington Street, Spreydon, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

William Nixon Seay (father), 44 Barrington Street, Spreydon, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 13 Nov 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/3459 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) AWMM
  Citation for Meritorious Service Medal (MSM): "For long and valuable service. This N.C.O. has done continuous good work and has performed his duties in a most excellent manner. As Senior Warrant Officer, with the N.Z. Ordnance Department, his work has been of a most arduous character and has frequently involved him in situations which have called for a display of energy and initiative. In an advance the necessity of clean clothing and socks etc., for the fighting troops is sometimes very acute. Conductor Seay on his energy and ability has at all times been of the greatest assistance to the D.A.D.O.S., in administering a very important branch of the service." (London Gazette, 3 June 1919, p. 6919, Rec. 3469) AWMM
• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Canterbury AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 13 Nov 1915 AWMM from Wellington AWMM
HMNZT 35 or HMNZT 36 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Private AWMM Canterbury Infantry Battalion AWMM 8th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Influenza AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Warrant Officer Class 1 AWMM
New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps AWMM

Death

20 Feb 1919 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM
Germany AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

Cologne Southern Cemetery, Koln, Nordrhein-Westfal, Germany AWMM II.E.17. AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: The Star, 3 March 1919 AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7815583
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/330496/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/330496
  Further Reference

References

• Christchurch Star
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 651
• McDonald, W. (2001). Honours and awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. Napier, N.Z.: Helen McDonald.
  McDonald, H. (2001). p. 286.
• Christchurch Star
  Obituary: The Star, 3 March 1919
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• 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.