Rupert Sydney Taucher

Forenames

Rupert Sydney AWMM

Surname

Taucher AWMM

Service number

WWI 33476 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

21 Sept 1895 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs Ellen Taucher (mother), Francis Line, Carterton, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 33476 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 21 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 74 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Private AWMM 21st Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

24 Nov 1917 AWMM Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Reported as missing on the 24th November 1917. Court of Enquiry held on 25th January 1918 found reasonable to suppose dead, In the Field, Belgium on November 24, 1917. AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Rupert Taucher was the son of Robert and Helen Taucher, of Belvedere Rd., Carterton, New Zealand, and the brother of Archibald Taucher 27984 who also died in WW1.

Next of Kin: Mr R. Taucher, Belvedere, Carterton (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

24 Nov 1917 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Buttes New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7823975
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737531/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737531
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  52: 10
• 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
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 74. Our ark : full of the funniest things you ever saw : the XXIst. [1917]. Capetown: Cape Times.