Earnest Henry Dempsey

Forenames

Earnest Henry AWMM

Surname

Dempsey AWMM

Also known as

Ernest Henry Dempsey AWMM

Service number

WWI 38358 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs T. Wright (sister), Nymagee, via Hermidale, New South Wales, Australia AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 38358 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Bushman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 21 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 74 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Private AWMM 21st Reinforcements E Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment AWMM

Next of Kin: c/o Mr G. Culpan, Parawai, Thames (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

24 Nov 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Buttes New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• My great uncleErnest was born in Adaminaby NSW in 1896 and christened Ernest Henry WARE. On Anzac Day 2018 my niece Julie is in Belgium searching for his memorial at Buttes Cemetery while I am updating the Ware records on Monaro Pioneers having found a gallant man who chose to enlist under an assumed name for his own good reason.
  
  I can now rest having searched to find you for some years. My thanks to all who helped in the search. Cpl G. Thorp 2/722549
  Public - Gregory - Other relative - 26 April 2018 - Librarian at NZ Military Museum and others including the author of "Bloody Gallipoli"

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20996564
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737296/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737296
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  52: 18
• 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. 5: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 74. Our ark : full of the funniest things you ever saw : the XXIst. [1917]. Capetown: Cape Times.