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Charles Allanton Kerse

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Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1918 - No known copyright restrictions

Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1918 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Charles Allanton AWMM
  • Surname
    Kerse AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 8/240 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    8 June 1892 AWMM Otago, New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM Gore, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Charles Kerse (father), Coutts Road, Gore, New Zealand AWMM
    • C. Kerse (father), Coutts Road, Gore, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 16 October 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 8/240 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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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
    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Son of Charles and Elizabeth Kerse of Dunrobin, New Zealand. He also served at Gallipoli.

    He was killed on the morning of the 25 July 1918 by shell fire. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    25 July 1918 AWMM
    Age 26 AWMM
    France, Europe AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Couin New British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM G 6 AWMM
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Memorials

Memorial

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  • Reading transcripts from my grandfathers war diaries. He mentions taking the military funeral of Charles Kerse at Couin. My grandfather was Rev D.C.Herron NZ Army Chaplain. I didnot know my grandfather but i have heard many stories about him . I know he was a wonderful man and can be assured he would have taken a special service for Charles Kerse, being a brave soldier who died for his country.
    Public - ann - 1 May 2015
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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Boyack, N. (1989). Behind the lines : the lives of New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. Wellington, N.Z.: Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 392 AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      26: 18 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
    • 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
      Vol. 5: Includes portrait AWMM
    • Alexander Turnbull Library Micro MS 591; Diary 1914-18 AWMM

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16 June 2018AllanRotoruaResearcher
09 September 2017KarenWellingtonOther
01 May 2015annmosgiel, new zealandOther

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