Eric Win Wanden

Forenames

Eric Win AWMM

Surname

Wanden AWMM

Also known as

Eric Winn AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/566 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

• Unknown AWMM Halifax Street, Blenheim, New Zealand AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM
• Unknown AWMM Unknown address AWMM

Next of kin

• Mrs Elizabeth Margaret Wanden (mother), Halifax Street, Blenheim, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs Elizabeth M. Wanden (mother), Halifax Street, Blenheim, New Zealand AWMM
• Mrs E.M. Wanden (mother), Halifax Street, Blenheim, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

• Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
• Pre 22 Feb 1916 AWMM Unknown Marital Status AWMM
• Pre 13 Nov 1917 AWMM Unknown Marital Status AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/566 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Unknown/Civilian AWMM
• WW1 Clerk AWMM
• WW1 Clerk AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
  HMNZT 4 or HMNZT 11 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Athenic AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM Main Body AWMM
• WW1 22 Feb 1916-31 Mar 1916 AWMM
  HMNZT 41 AWMM Vessel was Waihora AWMM Trooper AWMM 10th Reinforcements Details, Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM
• WW1 13 Nov 1917-21 Dec 1917 AWMM
  HMNZT 98 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 34th Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles Brigade AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  3rd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
• wounded at Gallipoli with Gun shot would to lower jaw
  Public - Raymund - Other Relative - 6 April 2015 - From military records

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM

Eric Wanden was the son of Mrs.E.M.Wanden, of Corner of Walter and Stephenson Streets, Blenheim, New Zealand..

SuppNom: Ex Main Body and 10th Reinforcements. AWMM

Death

25 Sept 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria AWMM C. 75. AWMM

Memorial name

• Marlborough War Memorial, 20 Seymour Street, Blenheim, 7201 AWMM
• Borough of Blenheim Roll of Honour, Marlborough Museum. 26 Arthur Baker Pl, Redwoodtown, Blenheim 7201 AWMM
• Marlborough Great War Memorial, WW1 AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22015711
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/897535/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/897535
  Further Reference
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210315175255/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1CMRi-t1-body.html
  Further Reference
• Glenn Reddiex
  http://100nzww1postcards.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/a-lost-boyfriend.html
  Public - Glenn - Researcher - 21 May 2015 - Private postcard collection

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 755
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  23: 5
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  74: 13
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
• 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
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• HMNZT 98. The horse marines : a chronicle of their voyage on H.M.N.Z.T.98 T.S.S. Tofua, Nov. 13 to Dec. 21, 1917. Editor, Tpr. J.A. Kyd; sub-editor, Sgt. G.B. Young.
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, 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 - 16 April 2019 - Postcard from the private collection of Glenn Reddiex, published in this book, page 118.