Ernest Walter Gambling
Died 3 Jul 1916
- Service number
- WWI 12/3020 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Last rank
- WW1 Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Ernest Walter AWMM
- Surname
- Gambling AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
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- Service number
- WWI 12/3020 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
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- Date of birth
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- Place of birth
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- Birth notes
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- Address before enlistment
- Unknown AWMM Railway-Station, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- Edward Gambling (father), Paeroa, New Zealand AWMM
- Relationship status
- Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Single AWMM
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Campaign
- Samoa AWMM
- 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
- Armed force / branch
- Army AWMM
- Service number
- WWI 12/3020 AWMM
- Military service
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- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Railway employee AWMM
- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM
- WW1 7th Reinforcements AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
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- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Ernest Gambling was the son of Edward and Emily Gambling, of Paeroa, New Zealand. Also served in Samoa.
Next of Kin: Mr E. Gambling, Paeroa, Thames (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM - 'Two Railway Men Killed. How They Died'
Major G. Barclay, of the New Zealand Engineers, in a letter from France, writes as follows: I have just got a few particulars with respect to the death of two members of the New Zealand Railway Service, namely Private G. E. Shaw and E. W. Gambling, of the 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry. Both lads, at the time of their enlistment, were on the staff of the Morrinsville Station, and were well known in the Auckland District. On the night of the 10th July, a somewhat severe bombardment took place. Shaw, Gambling, and another comrade were occupying a dug-out in the trenches when a German high-explosive shell came over and landed right on top of their shelter crushing it in, and bringing the occupants what must have been instantaneous death. Both lads were held in high esteem by the members of the Battalion". Railway review, 22 September 1916, p 405Public - Jenifer - Researcher - 5 September 2017 - Railway Workers Obituaries : New Zealand History : www.nzhistory.govt.nz
- Ernest Gambling was the son of Edward and Emily Gambling, of Paeroa, New Zealand. Also served in Samoa.
About death
- Death
- 3 Jul 1916 AWMM
Age 22 AWMM - Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Death notes
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- Cemetery
- Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France AWMM II. C. 23. AWMM
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- Grave reference
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- Obituary
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- Memorial name
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- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- Auckland Railway Station, Te Taou Crescent, Auckland 1010. AWMM
- Railways Roll of Honour board. Wellington Railway Station, Pipitea, Wellington 6011. AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Related objects
Related Serviceperson
Sources
- External links
- Archives New Zealand.
https://collections.archives.govt.nz
Sources Used - Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16784784
Further Reference - 'Railway workers' obituaries', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/nz-railways-ww1/obituaries, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 22-Dec-2015
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/nz-railways-ww1/obituaries
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/276279/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/276279
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Archives New Zealand.
- References
- 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.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Page No: 253 - The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
- Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-
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