Samuel Leonard King

Forenames

Samuel Leonard AWMM

Surname

King AWMM

Service number

WWI 38037 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Methodist, Christian AWMM

Birth

14 Aug 1891 AWMM
Petone, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre 16 Oct 1916 AWMM 72 Richmond Street, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs E.L. King (wife), 61 Richmond Street, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Feb 1917 AWMM Married AWMM
Married, 1 child AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• Ypres AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 38037 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 16 Oct 1916 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM
Driver/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Feb 1917-02 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 76 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM 22nd Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Regiment, B Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  7 feet 7.5 inches AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Blue AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  147 pounds AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Brown AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded and gassed, 29 July 1917 AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded second time, multiple to severe, Ypres, France, 28 August 1917 AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded third time, shellshock, severe concussion, 28 November 1917 AWMM
• Died after Discharge from Wounds Inflicted or Disease Contracted while on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM
  Died after discharge from the NZEF from wounds inflicted while on active service AWMM

Last rank

WW1 12 Jun 1918 AWMM
Medical, wounds AWMM
Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment AWMM

Husband of Ella L. King, of 68, Dixon St., Masterton, Wairarapa.

Married, 1 daughter at embarkation

Samuel King returned to New Zealand on board SS Maunganui that sailed from Liverpool on 2 February 1918. He served a total of one year and 31 days overseas, and 209 days in New Zealand.

Brother of Charles King (5/388) who subsequently married Samuel's widow.

Died of wounds received in France, wounded and gassed. AWMM

Death

28 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Died after Discharge from Wounds Inflicted or Disease Contracted while on Active Service AWMM

Cemetery

Woodville Old Gorge Cemetery, Tararua District, New Zealand AWMM Main Section, Block 13, Plot 106 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Births, Deaths and Marriages (New Zealand) Historical Records online
  https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
  Sources Used
• Tararua District Council cemetery records
  http://www.tararuadc.govt.nz/asp/cemetery_search.asp?ID=34
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18057354
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/644052/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/644052
  Further Reference
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
  http://web.archive.org/web/20220331095731/https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Documents/Provisional-list-NZ-victims-of-1918-Flu-Pandemic-Ancestry.pdf
  Sources Used

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: 8
• Woodville Old Gorge Cemetery, Tararua District, New Zealand
  Cemetery register no. 6101
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
• HMNZT 76 - The moa : the journal of the Twenty Seconds on troopship "Aparima" (No. 76). Drew, H.T.B. (Henry Thomas Bertie), editor. Digby, H.W.L. (Henry William Lockyer), editor. -- At sea : Twenty-Second Reinforcements : [1917