Ernest Bassett

Forenames

Ernest AWMM

Surname

Bassett AWMM

Service number

WWI 40176 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

5 Aug 1896 AWMM

Next of kin

Samuel Henry Bassett (father), Rapaura, Marlborough, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 40176 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 10 Nov 1916 AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Feb 1917-26 Apr 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 78 AWMM Vessel was Navua AWMM Rifleman AWMM Reinforcements H Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 4th Battalion AWMM

Ernest Bassett was the son of S. H. and Ruth Bassett, of St. S Andrews, Blenheim, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

28 Dec 1917 AWMM
Age  21 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM III. O. 10. AWMM

Memorial name

• Marlborough War Memorial, 20 Seymour Street, Blenheim, 7201 AWMM
• Borough of Blenheim Roll of Honour, Marlborough Museum. 26 Arthur Baker Pl, Redwoodtown, Blenheim 7201 AWMM
• Marlborough Great War Memorial, WW1 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22273259
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/95763/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/95763
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• 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.
  55: 32
• 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 78 - The navuan nautilus : being some account of the doings of C, H and J Companies and Details, 22nd Reinforcements N.Z.I.F -- On board ship : 22nd Reinforcements : 1917.