Clarence Victor Tarlin

Forenames

Clarence Victor AWMM

Surname

Tarlin AWMM

Also known as

Clarrie

Public - Anne Judith - Other Relative - 2 August 2015 - In memorium notice. Source: Papers Past
"Tarlin - In fond and loving memory of our dear son and brother Clarence Victor (Clarrie) who died, prisoner of war, at Kr-day Military Hospital, Lille on February 22, 1917, of wounds received in France. Dearly loved and sadly missed. - Inserted by his loving mother and sister".

Service number

WWI 21350 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

• 10th June 1897
  Public - Anne Letham - Other relative - 16 May 2019 - New Zealand Birth Certificate (Internal Affairs)
• July 1897
  Public - anne - Other relative - 6 May 2019 - www.dia.govt.nz

Place of birth

• Grey Street, Auckland, New Zealand
  Public - Anne Letham - Other relative - 16 May 2019 - New Zealand Birth Certificate (Internal Affairs)
• Auckland, New Zealand
  Public - anne - Other relative - 6 May 2019 - Family knowledge

Birth notes

Son of the late Alfred & Clara TARLIN of Titirangi, Akld

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 31 August 2024 - Military Record

Address before enlistment

Huia Rd, Titirangi, Auckland

Public - anne - Other relative - 6 May 2019 - Coney, S.(2017)Gone West, Auckland, Protect Piha Society Inc.

Next of kin

Mrs C. Jacobson (mother), Titirangi, New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

single

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 31 August 2024 - Military Record

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 21350 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 19 Aug 1916-24 Oct 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 61 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Sergeant AWMM 16th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Capture details

• WW1
  1917 AWMM
• WW1 POW - France AWMM
  21 Feb 1917 AWMM

Medical notes

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of wounds 22/2/1917 as POW AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Clarence Tarlin was the son of Clara Jacobson (formerly Tarlin), of Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand, and the late Alfred Tarlin

Attended Auckland Grammar School.

Next of Kin: Mrs C. Jacobson, Titirangi, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

22 Feb 1917 AWMM
Age  19 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Cemetery

Lille Southern Cemetery, Nord, France AWMM III. B. 38. AWMM

Obituary

• Obituary: Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Third Term, 1917. AWMM
• Clarence enlisted in the Auckland Infantry Regiment, second battalion and subsequently embarked to France via Devon England, on the ship Aparima on the 19th August 1916. Clarence Victor was listed as missing on 21st February 1917 and it was subsequently announced that he had been captured on that date and died of wounds on the 22nd February 1917 shortly after his arrival at the German prison camp.
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 31 August 2024 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/clarence-victor-clarrie-tarlin

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• 500 South Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Auckland AWMM
• 500 South Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Auckland AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7823865
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/278680/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/278680
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  38: 6
• Ahier, William Roland. War diary, 1917. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2004/76.
  p. 25 February 1917
• Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland Grammar School.
  1917, Third term. p.25.
• 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
• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Prisoners of War Taken by the Enemy during (the) Period August 1914 to November 1918 [Listed by Surname in Alphabetical Order], Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R26112295)
• 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.
• Reddiex, G.R. (2015). Just to let you know I’m still alive.
  Wellington NZ: Grantham House Publishing
  Public - Glenn - Researcher - 22 November 2020 - Postcard from the private collection of Glenn Reddiex, published in this book, page 115