Charles Thomas

Forenames

Charles AWMM

Surname

Thomas AWMM

Also known as

Charles Thomas AWMM

Service number

WWI 27621 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

2nd September 1893

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Place of birth

Christchurch

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Address before enlistment

Invercargill

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Next of kin

WW1 Miss K. Thomas (sister), Oneta Bay, Nelson, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

single

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War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 27621 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Farm hand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 17th Reinforcements, Otago Infantry Battalion, D Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Heart failure AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment AWMM

Death

• 18 Apr 1918 AWMM
• 18 Apr 1918 Allan Steel Cemetery Project

Place of death

At sea on the ship

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Cause of death

• Died of Disease AWMM
• Died of Tuberculois
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Cemetery

Andersons Bay Memorial Cemetery, Dunedin City Council AWMM Block S, Plot MP AWMM

Cemetery name

Buried at Sea

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Memorial name

Otago Provincial Memorial, at Anderson Bay

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Memorial name

• Otago Provincial Memorial, Anderson's Bay, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
• Marlborough War Memorial, 20 Seymour Street, Blenheim, 7201 AWMM
• Marlborough Great War Memorial, WW1 AWMM
• St Peter's Anglican Church, Kaikoura AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7825167
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/642810/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/642810
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 14
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• This record was partially compiled from data kindly provided by Allan Steel Cemetery Project (2020)
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.