Claude Searle Pownceby

Forenames

Claude Searle AWMM

Surname

Pownceby AWMM

Service number

WWI 4/1384 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Commercial Hotel, Waihi, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs A.L. Pownceby (wife), Cockwood Station, near Devon, England AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 18 Dec 1915 AWMM Married AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 4/1384 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 Ruapehu 18 December 1915 AWMM Vessel was Ruapehu AWMM Lance Corporal/Military AWMM Headquarters, No. 3 Relief AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
New Zealand Engineers AWMM

Claude Pownceby was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pownceby, of 27 Lyncroft Gardens, Hampstead, London; husband of A. Lilian Pownceby, of 16 Market Place, Wokingham, Berk., England

Next of Kin: Mrs A. L. Pownceby, Cockwood Station, Devon (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

14 Sept 1916 AWMM
Age  39 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Arras Memorial, Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R20802511
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1619622/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1619622
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 591
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.