Thomas Culling Farrer

Forenames

Thomas Culling AWMM

Surname

Farrer AWMM

Service number

• WWI 129 AWMM
• WWI 4/129A AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

6 Feb 1889 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre 30 Nov 1914 AWMM England AWMM

Next of kin

Matthew George Farrer, The Priory, Kemerton, Gloucester, England AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 129 AWMM
• WWI 4/129A AWMM

Medals and Awards

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

Enlistment

WW1 30 Nov 1914 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Student/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 Sapper AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF), British Section AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  6 foot 1 inch AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  11 stone 13 pounds AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Diarrhoea 17 June 1915 AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Debility July 1915 AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

Sapper AWMM
New Zealand Engineers, 1 Field Company AWMM

Death

29 Jun 1916 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France AWMM 1. C. 3. AWMM

Memorial name

• Hamilton Memorial Park, Memorial Drive, Hamilton East, 3216 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

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/R21002082
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• 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.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.