Percy Emanuel Holst

Forenames

Percy Emanuel AWMM

Surname

Holst AWMM

Service number

WWI 49959 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

3 Feb 1884 AWMM
Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs F.P. Holst (wife), 199 Ythan Street, Invercargill, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 49959 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 21 Feb 1917 AWMM Architect/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Nov 1917-07 Jan 1918 AWMM
HMNZT 97 AWMM Vessel was RMS Tahiti AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade Reinforcements, G Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Holst left for France on 20 March 1918. He marched into camp at Abeele for a brief period before joining the 1 Battalion, 3 New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 'A' Company near Hebuterne on 27 March. He received gunshot wounds to his left leg on 6 April. At then end of the month he was admitted to No.1 NZGH, Brockenhurst. He survived six weeks longer. (Church, p.213) AWMM

Death

12 May 1918 AWMM
Age  35 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Brockenhurst (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Hampshire, England AWMM Plot A, Row 4, Grave 15 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18049342
  Further Reference
• No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst
  http://southernlife.org.uk/nzindex.htm
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/362570/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/362570
  Further Reference

References

• Church, C. (2002). New Zealand graves at Brockenhurst : 93 New Zealand soldiers remembered from World War One. Hampshire, England: Author.
• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  75: 21
• 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. 4: Includes portrait
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 97. (1918). From Maoriland to Blighty: Being the browsings of Brown’s cows: S.S. Tahiti, February 1918 (31st Reinforcements). Bennett Brothers, Military and General Printers.