Identity
Title
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Christian Diedrich AWMM
Surname
Marcussen AWMM
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WWI 41218 AWMM
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Mrs S.L.S. Marcussen (wife), care of Mrs Edwards, York Street, Levin, New Zealand AWMM
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Biographical information
Marcussen's rank was confirmed as Corporal on 24 September 1917
Marcussen left for France on 10 September and marched into camp at Etaples. That very day he fell ill with dysentery. He was transferred to No.1 NZGH, Brockenhurst on 29 November and classified as 'Dangerously Ill'. He died of bronco-pneumonia on 4 December. (Church, p.176)
Christians' brother, Thomas Diedrich Marcussen, Private, 25116, 14 Reinforcements, New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, died the same day. (Church, p.176) AWMM
Death
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Cemetery
Brockenhurst (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Hampshire, England AWMM Plot A, row 3, Grave 21 AWMM
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- Wanganui War Memorial AWMM
- Bluff War Memorial AWMM
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Sources
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Documents
- Church, C. (2002). New Zealand graves at Brockenhurst : 93 New Zealand soldiers remembered from World War One. Hampshire, England: Author. AWMM
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
66: 12 AWMM - The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018) AWMM
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