Forenames

Ernest AWMM

Surname

Bunn AWMM

Service number

WWI 25453 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

• 30 Jun 1892 AWMM
• 30 Jun 1892 Public Source

Date of birth

30 June 1892

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Place of birth

Murchison

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Next of kin

Levi Bunn (brother), High Street, Eltham, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 25453 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Blacksmith/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 23 Sep 1916-19 Nov 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 65 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Private AWMM 17th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Capture details

• WW1 POW - Munster, Westphalia, AWMM
  9/231. Lager I AWMM
• WW1 POW - Switzerland AWMM
  21 Feb 1917 AWMM

Medical notes

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Influenza. Died of sickness 7/7/1918 as POW AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion AWMM

Ernest Bunn was the son of Elijah and Amy Bunn, of Murchison, New Zealand.

Prisoner of War of Germans. Reported as receiving one food parcel in the 8 August 1917 edition of 'Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.', and one food parcel in 19 September 1917 edition of 'Chronicles of N.Z.E.F.'

Next of Kin: Mr H. Bunn, Chielhurst, Eltham (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

7 Jul 1918 AWMM
Age  28 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM

Cemetery

Vevey (St. Martin's) Cemetery, Switzerland AWMM 51 AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• War Memorials at Murchison and Eltham
  Public - Peter - Researcher - 13 October 2017 - on site and on-line through NZ History War Memorial images

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21889732
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/473444/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/473444
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand High Commission (Great Britain). (1917). A short sketch of the work of the New Zealand Prisoners of War Department in London and of other undertakings connected with the war. London, England: High Commissioner for New Zealand.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  41: 8
• Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.: Records of Matters Concerning the Troops and Gazette of Patriotic Effort [London, England] : New Zealand War Contingent Association, [1916-1919]
  Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F.', 3.10.1917, p.82.; 19.09.1917, p.57
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Prisoners of War Taken by the Enemy during (the) Period August 1914 to November 1918 [Listed by Surname in Alphabetical Order], Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R26112295)
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• HMNZT 65 - Pakeha : the journal of the Seventeenth Reinforcements H.M.N.Z. Transport 65 (S.S."Pakeha"). Pilling, E.G. (Ewen George), editor. McGhie, J.G. (John Gordon), editor. Bell, R.B. (Robert Brown), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 17th Reinforcements : 1916.