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Percival Clennell Fenwick

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Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Percival Clennell Fenwick. Image sourced from Imperial War Museums' 'Bond of Sacrifice' collection. ©IWM HU 121994

Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Percival Clennell Fenwick. Image sourced from Imperial War Museums' ' …

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Percival Clennell AWMM
  • Surname
    Fenwick AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
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    • N/N AWMM
    • 3/158A AWMM
    • 15/118 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1870 AWMM London, England AWMM
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  • Address before enlistment
    • Unknown AWMM Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
    • Unknown AWMM 22 Gloucester Street, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Dr Samuel Fenwick (father), London, England AWMM
    • Mrs Ellen Nora Evelyn Fenwick (wife), 22 Gloucester Street, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Pre 20 January 1900 AWMM Single AWMM
    • Pre 16 October 1914 AWMM Married AWMM

Service

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Medical history

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Biographical information

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  • He was in the first boats to land at Gallipoli

    Lieutenant Colonel Fenwick was the Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services Headquarters, New Zealand and Australia Division during World War I.

    Percival Fenwick married Ellen Mona Wright (her father was Fortunatus Evelyn Wright)

    Auckland Museum World War 1 "The First Anzac Day" display includes a quote by Lt. Col. Fenwick.

    Auckland Museum World War 1 "Anzac Cove" display. The display item is a model of Anzac Cove made by Colonel Fenwick and his staff namely Staff Sergeant Williams and E.J. Haynes who looked at sketches in Percival Fenwick's diary.

    Fenwick, Percival. Documents, 1899-1929. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 90/82. Includes a newspaper article about his dispatch case which he took to the Boer War and left behind in South Africa. Fiftysix years years later the case was returned to him.

    The Auckland War Memorial Museum includes Fenwick's album. Some images are included in Fenton, D., & Higgins, S. (2015). The Anzacs : an inside view of New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    6 July 1958 AWMM
    Age 87 AWMM
    Christchurch, Canterbury AWMM
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  • I am a university student currently writing a paper about the experiences of Australian and New Zealand soldiers during the First World War. While researching, I came across your diary and was moved by your raw honesty about the hardships of war. May you find the peace that you so craved and receive the joy and love that you are so deserving of. Your words live on today and touch the lives of people like myself in a way that you could never have comprehended and I thank you for that. My love, respect and gratitude are with you always,
    Grace Cuddihy (Fremantle, Australia)
    Public - Grace - Researcher - 5 October 2017
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Sources

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    • Stowers, R. (2002). Rough Riders at War: history of New Zealand's involvement in the Anglo-Boer war 1899-1902 and information on all members of the ten New Zealand contingents. Author: Hamilton, N.Z. AWMM
    • McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 226 AWMM
    • Fenwick, Percival Clennell. Anzac diary, 1915. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-1497. AWMM
      Provides a day to day account of action at Gallipoli from 24 April to 27 June 1915. AWMM
    • Fenwick, Percival. Documents, 1899 - 1929. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 90/82. AWMM
    • Fenwick, Percival Clennell. Fenwick Album. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Album 337. AWMM
    • Fenwick, P. (c2000). Gallipoli diary, 24 April to 27 June, 1915. Auckland, N.Z.: David Ling in association with Auckland War Memorial Museum. AWMM
    • Fenton, D., & Higgins, S. (2015). The Anzacs : an inside view of New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin. AWMM
    • Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
      Vol. 1: Includes portrait AWMM
    • Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
      Vol. 5: Includes portrait AWMM
    • Pat Clarkson Medical Practitioner Research Project (January 2014 - March 2022). This project identified Medical Practioners who served in WWI. AWMM

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05 October 2017GraceFremantle, AustraliaResearcher
26 July 2017MaxNew ZealandResearcher

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