Charles Cyril Pontin Tanner
Born 1892 - Died 5 Oct 1918
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- Captain/Military AWMM Royal Garrison Artillery, Mesopotamia Field Force, 157th Heavy Battery AWMM
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- Charles Cyril Pontin AWMM
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- Tanner AWMM
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- Male AWMM
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About birth
- Birth
- 1892 AWMM
New Zealand AWMM - Date of birth
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Wars and conflicts
- War
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- 1914-1918 AWMM WW1 AWMM
- Basrah 1916 AWMM
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- Army AWMM
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- Royal Garrison Artillery, 29th Mountain Battery AWMM
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Embarkations
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- WW1 Subaltern AWMM Royal Garrison Artillery AWMM
Prisoner of war
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Medical history
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- Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
Pneumonia AWMM
Last known rank
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- Captain/Military AWMM
Royal Garrison Artillery, Mesopotamia Field Force, 157th Heavy Battery AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- Charles Cyril Pontin Tanner was the only son of Ann and Cyril William Tanner of Wellington New Zealand.
His father Cyril William Tanner was a local City Councilor and a prominent citizen. His mother Ann Tanner (nee Kebbell) was the daughter of Dr Mark Kebbell who was also a prominent citizen.
Educated at Wellington College and at Bedford, England
Commissioned in 1912 (London Gazette)
Served 4 years and 4 months abroad in WW1.
Remembered by his sister, Gwyneth Bertha Laird, 20 August 1941 in an English newspaper together with a Memoriam message for her husband, Captain James Boyd Laird serving with the Merchant Navy and killed in action at sea 1940.
The Kebbell and Tanner family grave, Plot 5213, Bolton Street Cemetery was disintered to make way for the Wellington Motorway and the monument later reinstated.
He is commemorated on the bell Baghdad, given by his his sisters, Dorothy Tanner and Gwyneth Laird for the National War Memorial Carillon, Wellington. AWMM
About death
- Death
- 5 Oct 1918 AWMM
Age 26 AWMM - Date of death
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- Died of Sickness AWMM
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- Cemetery
- Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Waziriah Area of the Al-Russafa district, Baghdad, Iraq AWMM XI.K.1 AWMM
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Memorial
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- Family grave memorial, Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
- National War Memorial Carillon, 41 Buckle Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
Sources
- External links
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
http://www.cwgc.org
Sources Used - London Gazette.
http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/home.aspx?geotype=London
Sources Used - Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Sources Used - Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Sources Used - Base records file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21100671
Further Reference - Obituary: Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 82, 1 January 1919, Page 4
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=DOM19190101.2.13&srpos
Obituary - Roll of Honour: Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 85, 4 January 1919, Page 1
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=DOM19190104.2.2&srpos
Sources Used - Kebbell and Tanner family grave, plot 5213, Bolton Street Cemetery. Shotter, P J E :Negatives and albums (with index) of graves in the Bolton Street and Sydney Street cemeteries, Wellington. Ref: 35mm-25464-25-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23130255
Further Reference - Friends of Bolton Street Memorial Park
http://www.boltoncemetery.org.nz/
Further Reference - London Gazette, 21 January 1913, p. 497 Regular Forces, establishments
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28683/pages/497/page.pdf
Further Reference - Firepower. Royal Artillery Museum, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London, England
http://www.firepower.org.uk/
Further Reference - Ministry for Culture & Heritage. National War Memorial Carillon, Wellington, and booklet with inscriptions on the bells, a pdf document
http://www.mch.govt.nz/nz-identity-heritage/national-war-memorial/carillon
Further Reference
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- References
- Dominion Post
- Dominion Post
- Harper, G., Clements, C., & Johns., R. (2019). For King and Other Countries: The New Zealanders Who Fought in Other Services in the First World War. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press.
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