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Percival Stanley Ussher

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Purewa Cemetery, Block E, Row 58, Plot 97

Purewa Cemetery

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Percival Stanley AWMM
  • Surname
    Ussher AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Usher AWMM
  • Service number
    South African 2415 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1879 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Melford Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Sophia Usher, Melford Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    South Africa 31 March 1900 Ministry for Culture and Heritage Clerk Ministry for Culture and Heritage
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
    Peritonitis AWMM

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Father: Thomas Ussher, land Agent, Mother: Augusta Sophia Brabazon

    Listed on the nominal roll as Private

    1903: Married Helena Beatrice Buck (died 6 June 1964, age 84)

    Vice -President and Treasurer of South African War Veterans Association in Auckland

    Auckland Museum Boer War Display – photo of “section of the Auckland Fifth Contingent which left by the Mapourika”

    Supporter of Rugby League Football

    Father was named Thomes Usher. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    19 March 1924 Ministry for Culture and Heritage
    Age 44 AWMM
    Ministry for Culture and Heritage
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Sickness AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    • Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Plot EO 58097 AWMM
    • Purewa Cemetery AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    New Zealand Herald 21 March 1924, page 10 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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