Henry Joseph Arnold Gillett

Forenames

Henry Joseph Arnold AWMM

Surname

Gillett AWMM

Also known as

Gillet AWMM

Service number

WWI 4/1048 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

30 Aug 1895 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM 25 River Bank, Wanganui, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs Annie Gillett (mother), Owens Road, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 14 Aug 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 4/1048 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1

Embarkation details

WW1 14 Aug 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 27 or HMNZT 28 AWMM Vessel was Willochra or Tofua AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM New Zealand Field Engineers AWMM 6th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
New Zealand Engineers, Divisional Signals Company AWMM

Henry Gillet was the son of Henry and Annie Gillet of 40 Great South Rd, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand. Native of Australia.

Surname appears as Gillett in Nominal Rolls, as Gillet in Archives New Zealand and CWGC

Next of Kin: Mr H. Gillet, Gt. South Rd, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

4 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  22 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, Langemark-Poelkapelle, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM II. A. 30. AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• 11 Tainui Street, Matamata, Waikato AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  http://www.cwgc.org
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R16786266
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/7664
  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.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 264
• 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
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.