Charles Sidney Thorburn

Forenames

Charles Sidney AWMM

Surname

Thorburn AWMM

Service number

WWI 25651 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Date of birth

8th October 1894

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Place of birth

Thames

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Birth notes

Son of James Smith & Lucy THORBURN

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Address before enlistment

Naumai, Kaiti, Gisborne

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Next of kin

Mrs Lucy Thorburn (mother), 9 Martha Street, Thames, 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 25651 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Rifleman AWMM 8th Reinforcements 3rd Battalion, G Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Charles Thorburn was the son of Mrs. L. Thorburn, of Hamilton, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs L. Thorburn, Hamilton, Waikato (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

28 Mar 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France AWMM IV. A. 3. AWMM

Obituary

A recent fist contained the name of Rifleman C. S. Thorburn, who is reported to have been killed in action. Rifleman Thorburn was assistant clerk at the Magistrate's Court at Gisborne for five months prior to his enlisting with the 17th Reinforcements, in Mav, 191:6.He was .attached to G. Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion. His mother resides at Thames. Rifleman Thorburn was a promising young man. and earned the esteem of many during his .residence in Gisborne

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POVERTY BAY HERALD, VOLUME XLV, ISSUE 14604, 14 MAY 1918, PAGE 3

Memorial name

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/R7826091
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/525361/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/525361
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 36
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• 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.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.