Ameral Christopher Abbott

Forenames

Ameral Christopher AWMM

Surname

Abbott AWMM

Also known as

Amerald Christopher Abbott AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/296 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

11 Jun 1893 Military Personnel File

Address before enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Southbridge, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs Isabella Abbott (mother), Southbridge, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 7/296 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Farmhand/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 4 or HMNZT 11 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Athenic AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM
Cause of Death: Anterior Poliomyelitis AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Canterbury Mounted Rifles AWMM

Death

8 May 1915 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt AWMM B.227. AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22273277
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/112002/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/112002
  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

References

• Eadie, Forbes. Troopships engaged in the Maori Wars, 1840-1865; in the South African War, 1899-1902; in the Great War, 1914-1918. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-90/38.
• New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Roll of Honour. (1923). Wellington, N.Z.: Ministry of Defence.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 2
• 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. 4: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• Powles, C.G. (Ed). (1928). History of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914-19. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.