Roy Lane Cunliffe

Forenames

Roy Lane AWMM

Surname

Cunliffe AWMM

Service number

• WWI 13739 AWMM
• WWI 2/30 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Wesleyan, Christian AWMM

Birth

19 Apr 1892 Military Personnel File

Address before enlistment

WW1 1914 AWMM 166 Vivian Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

James Erasmus Cunliffe (father), 166 Vivian Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 26 Jun 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 13739 AWMM
• WWI 2/30 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 08 Aug 1914 AWMM
• WW1 07 Mar 1916 AWMM Painter AWMM

Embarkation details

• WW1 14 Aug 1914-28 Aug 1914 AWMM
  HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Monowai AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM New Zealand Field Artillery, B Battery AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
• WW1 26 Jun 1916-22 Aug 1916 AWMM
  HMNZT 57 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Rifleman AWMM 14th Reinforcements, F Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

• 13 Mar 1917 AWMM Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
  Gunshot wound to the face, slight. AWMM
• 13 Mar 1917 AWMM Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Admitted to No 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station AWMM
• 21 Mar 1917 AWMM Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Admitted to No 13 Stationary Hospital, France AWMM
• 4 Apr 1917 AWMM Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Transferred to Base Depot, France AWMM
• 4 Dec 1917 AWMM Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
  Killed during the 3rd Battle of Ypres AWMM

Last rank

• WW1 22 Mar 1915 AWMM
  Discharged from the Samoan Expeditionary Force at his own request folowing the conclusion of that campaign. AWMM
  Gunner/Military AWMM
  New Zealand Field Artillery, D Battery AWMM
• WW1 Rifleman AWMM
  New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion, D Company AWMM

• Roy Cunliffe was the son of J. E. and A. M. Cunliffe. AWMM
• One of Roy Lane's brother's is Frank Llewellyn Cunliffe of Wellington, New Zealand. Record ID 15698 of 2nd NZEF. Parents are Mr James Erasmus and Ada Mahala Cunliffe - both of whom are buried in Karori Cemetery, Wellington which is where PTE F.L. Cunliffe is also buried.
  
  Both were wounded in action as per a paper article.
  Public - Rosemarie - Direct descendant - 23 April 2017 - Family papers and family oral history

Death

4 Dec 1917 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Polygon Wood Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM G. 9. AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20994419
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/480017/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/480017
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/1448
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• HMNZT 56 - The kit-bag : the unofficial record of the following units of the Fourteenth Reinforcements on board the "Maunganui", Troopship 56 -- Cape Town : Printed by Cape Times : 1916.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  34: 32
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.