Forenames

John Jennings AWMM

Surname

Crompton AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/4017 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

• 20 May 1883 AWMM
• 20 May 1883 Public Source

Date of birth

20 May 1883

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Place of birth

Taranaki

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Next of kin

Mrs L.C. Crompton (mother), Queen's Avenue, Dominion Road, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/4017 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 04 Mar 1916-08 Apr 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 47 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM 10th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Battalion, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment AWMM

Son of Henry Jardine Crompton and Louisa C. Crompton, of 3, Mount Pleasant Rd., Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand. Native of Omata, Taranaki

Next of Kin: Mrs I. C. Crompton. Mt Eden, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

1 Oct 1917 AWMM
Age  34 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM X. C. 22 AWMM

Memorial name

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• War Memorials at Riwaka and Stanley Brook; Auckland War Memorial Museum Hall of Memories
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Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21899218
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/462423/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/462423
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/10497
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• HMNZT 47. The Willochra tatler, or, The unvarished truth of some companies of the 10th Reinforcements, N.Z.E.F. (1916). Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch Press Company Limited, printers.