Charles Warwick Fountain

Forenames

Charles Warwick AWMM

Surname

Fountain AWMM

Service number

WWI 31485 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Birth

2 Feb 1891 AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 J.H. Fountain (father), 84 Balmoral Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 31485 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 15 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 68 or HMNZT 69 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM 19th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment AWMM

Nine soldiers from the Canterbury Regiment,2nd Battalion, and three from the North Island are buried near Le Mesnil and Pont-a-Pierres Farms on October 24 1918. They died barely two weeks before Armistice day in 1918. AWMM

Death

24 Oct 1918 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Beaudignies Communal Cemetery, Nord, France AWMM A. 1. AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21004421
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/263616/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/263616
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  45: 10
• HMNZT 69 - The oilsheet -- At sea : Printed and published on the high seas for the Committee by Corpl. Jas. Perry. : 1916-17