Samuel Edward Chandler

Forenames

Samuel Edward AWMM

Surname

Chandler AWMM

Service number

WWI 24762 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

12 May 1888 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 S.W. Chandler (father), care of D.R. Walker, 11 Saint Hill Street, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 24762 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Bushman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 27 May 1916-27 Jul 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 55 AWMM Vessel was Tofua AWMM Rifleman AWMM 7th Reinforcements 2nd Battalion, F 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, 1st Battalion AWMM

Samuel Chandler was the son of Samuel William and Louisa Chandler, of 18, Wilson St., Wanganui. Native of Masterton, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

16 Nov 1917 AWMM
Age  33 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

Buttes New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21893444
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737255/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737255
  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.
  33: 29
• 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
• Information kindly provided by family
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 55 - The Crusader : official organ of Thirteenth Reinforcements aboard H.M.N.Z.T. No.55 -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode Ballantyne and Co. Ltd.