Thomas Solly Crompton

Forenames

Thomas Solly AWMM

Surname

Crompton AWMM

Service number

WWI 10/718 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Omata, Taranaki, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

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

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Battle of Messines AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 10/718 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Foreman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 7 or HMNZT 10 AWMM Vessel was Arawa or Limerick AWMM Private AWMM Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Son of Henry Jardine and Louisa T. C. Crompton, of 3 Mount Pleasant Road, Mount Eden, Auckland. AWMM

Death

5 Mar 1917 AWMM
Age  26 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Tancrez Farm Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium AWMM II.F.1. AWMM

Obituary

Corporal Thomas S. Crompton, killed in action, was the son of Mrs. L. I. C. Crompton, of Queen’s Avenue, Dominion Road, and was born at Omata, Taranaki, 26 years ago. His father, the late Mr. H. J. Crompton, was a volunteer in the early Taranaki wars, and his grandfather, the late Mr. W. M. Crompton, was the first editor of the Taranaki Herald, and also one of the first members of the General Assembly on the Constitution Act being brought into operation in 1853. Corporal Crompton was foreman to Messrs. Duncan and Davies, nurserymen, of New Plymouth. He was a volunteer before the days of the territorial system, and afterwards a sergeant of territorials. One of the first to enlist in New Plymouth, he was in the landing at Gallipoli, and he was slightly wounded on the peninsula in the following July. (Auckland Weekly News, 29 March 1917, p. 48) AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21899184
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/487302/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/487302
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 163
• Auckland Weekly News
  Obituary: Auckland Weekly News, 29 March 1917, p. 48.
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)