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Archibald Ensor

  • Service number
    WWI 25/865 AWMM
  • Also known as
    Archibald H AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Nominal Roll Vol 2 (Roll 24), Page: 10 - No known copyright restrictions

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Archibald AWMM
  • Surname
    Ensor AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Archibald H AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 25/865 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    12 July 1894 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra Fiji, Melanesia Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Ernest Ensor (father), Levuka, Fiji, Pacific Islands AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 25/865 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM Butcher/Civilian AWMM
  • 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
    • Height, WWI AWMM
      6' 0.5" AWMM
    • Weight, WWI AWMM
      182 lb AWMM

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Embarked Wellington on board HMNZT 'Ulimaroa', 5 February 1916; disembarked Suez, 13 March 1916.
    Embarked Alexandria for France, 7 April 1916.
    Admitted to No 1 NZ Field Ambulance, 11 May 1916 (influenza); transferred to 12th Casualty Clearing Station, 14 May 1916 (pneumonia); to 13th General Hospital, Boulogne, 7 June 1916 (double pneumonia); listed as dangerously ill, 15 June 1916. Transferred to England, 25 June 1916, and admitted to 2nd Eastern General Hospital, Brighton, 26 June 1916. Transferred to Woodcote Hospital, 11 July 1916; on leave, 3-18 October 1916.
    Admitted to No 3 NZ General Hospital, 15 November 1916 (bronchitis); discharged to NZ Command Depot, Codford, 6 December 1916.
    Classified unfit by Medical Board, 28 March 1917 (double pneumonia), and placed on NZ Roll.
    Commenced return to New Zealand from Plymouth on board RMS 'Tainu', 26 April 1917; discharged (no longer physically fit for War Service on account of illness contracted on Active Service), 3 August 1917.
    Total war service: 1 year 295 days (of which 1 year 152 days was abroad)

    Death attributed to war service. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R21001305
    Further Reference
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      24: 10 AWMM
    • NZEF Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra 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
    • Weddell, H. (2016). Soldiers from the Pacific : the story of Pacific Island soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War One. Wellington, New Zealand : Defence of New Zealand Study Group. AWMM

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