Charles Head

Forenames

Charles AWMM

Surname

Head AWMM

Service number

WWI 69083 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Congregational, Christian AWMM

Birth

4 Jun 1896 Military personnel file

Address before enlistment

WW1 City Buffet Hotel, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 R.H. Head (father), Tuapa, Niue Island, Pacific Islands AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1918 AWMM Le Quesnoy AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 69083 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 16 Oct 1917 Military personnel file
Age  31 AWMM
Blacksmith/Civilian Military personnel file

Embarkation details

WW1 08 Feb 1918-29 Mar 1918 Military personnel file
HMNZT 100 Military personnel file Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Private Military personnel file 34th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company Military personnel file New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• 20 Jul 1917 AWMM Height, WWI AWMM
  5 foot 5 inches AWMM
• 20 Jul 1917 AWMM Weight, WWI AWMM
  128 pounds AWMM
• 20 Jul 1917 AWMM Complexion, WWI AWMM
  Dusky AWMM

Last rank

• WW1 Auckland Infantry Regiment Military personnel file
• WW1 17 Sept 1919 Military personnel file Private Military personnel file
  Otago Infantry Regiment Military personnel file

Son of Henry Head. AWMM

Death

7 Nov 1957 Military personnel file
Age  71 AWMM

Cemetery

Old Levin Cemetery (Tiro Tiro Road), Corner Mako Mako and Tiro Tiro Road, Levin, New Zealand AWMM Returned Services Association Row 7 Plot 62 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16793610
  Sources Used
• Horowhenua District Council cemetery record
  http://www.horowhenua.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries/Cemetery-Search-Results/?record=5988
  Sources Used

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  78: 5
• Pointer, M. (2015). Niue 1774-1974 : 200 years of conflict and change. Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press.
• Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group.
• The Le Quesnoy Campaign research was undertaken by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists as part of the development of New Zealand Liberation Museum - Te Arawhata (Le Quesnoy France). This research project was led by CJ Barbour (NZSG), BI Silvester, HH Farrant (NZMHS) with the support of NZSG volunteers (2022). The individuals included in this research dataset were identified as potentially having served in or around the wider Le Quesnoy campaign. Their presence at Le Quesnoy has not been individually verified in every case.
• 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.
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.
• HMNZT 100. The link [1918]. Printed by W.H. Smith & Son: London. Magazine of troops on board H.M.N.Z.T. No. 100, 'Ulimaroa'.