Eric Lindsay Kelly

Forenames

Eric Lindsay AWMM

Surname

Kelly AWMM

Service number

• WWI 10/4035 AWMM
• WWI 1/199 AWMM
• 10/4035
  Public - Brian - Researcher - 16 March 2016 - KELLY, Eric Lindsay - WW1 10/4035, 1/199 - Army (R18056010)
• 1/199
  Public - Brian - Researcher - 16 March 2016 - KELLY, Eric Lindsay - WW1 10/4035, 1/199 - Army (R18056010)

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 R.D. Kelly (father), Assistant Postmaster, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• Samoa AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

• WWI 10/4035 AWMM
• WWI 1/199 AWMM
• 10/4035
  Public - Brian - Researcher - 16 March 2016 - KELLY, Eric Lindsay - WW1 10/4035, 1/199 - Army (R18056010)
• 1/199
  Public - Brian - Researcher - 16 March 2016 - KELLY, Eric Lindsay - WW1 10/4035, 1/199 - Army (R18056010)

Enlistment

• WW1 Clerk AWMM
• WW1

Embarkation details

• WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Private AWMM
• WW1 01 Apr 1916 AWMM
  HMNZT 49 or HMNZT 50 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Maunganui AWMM Quartermaster Sergeant AWMM 11th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 1 Apr 1916 AWMM Private AWMM
Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

• Eric Kelly was the son of Robert D. and Agnes E. Kelly, of Christchurch, New Zealand. Native of Napier. Also served in Samoa.
  
  Next of Kin: Mr R. D. Kelly, Epsom, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM
• Born 13 June 1893. Eldest of 4 sons, his brothers Gordon and Keith also served in WW1.
  Public - Andrea - Other Relative - 25 April 2015 - Family history

Death

26 Aug 1918 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt, Somme, France AWMM VI. B. 15. AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/57574/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/57574
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  28: 7
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  238
• Byrne, A. E. Official History of the Otago Regiment, NZEF in the Great War, 1914–1918. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1921.