Eric Guest Ancell

Forenames

Eric Guest AWMM

Surname

Ancell AWMM

Service number

WWI 14349 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

13 Aug 1895 AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs C.T. Ancell (mother), 14 Hay Street, Oriental Bay, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 14349 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Civil servant/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 56 or HMNZT 57 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM 14th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment AWMM

Death

19 Oct 1916 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France AWMM IV. A. 6 AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. 1916. AWMM

Memorial name

• Roll of Honour, Dilworth School, 2 Erin Street, Epsom, Auckland AWMM
• 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/R22269854
  Further Reference
• Further Reference, 'Star Pupil's life cut short by sniper's bullet at Western Front', New Zealand Herald, 1 June 2015.
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11457622
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/275629/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/275629
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• Eric was my grandmothers (Florence Rachel Thurman Prosser) cousin. I have had the privilege of visi
  Public - Geoff - Other Relative - 15 May 2015 - Family documents and photograph of a grave.

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  34: 2
• Gaston, David. 'Eric Ancell : A New Zealander In World War I', 1999. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2002/183.
• Auckland Grammar School Chronicle. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland Grammar School.
  1916, Third term. p.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. 1: Includes portrait
• Connolly, A., & Stanes, P. Rememberance: Auckland Grammar School Great War Roll of Honour. Vols 1 & 2. Auckland: Petand Prodctions.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.