Charles Walton
- Service number
- WWI 49660 AWMM
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- Army AWMM
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- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
About
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- Forenames
- Charles AWMM
- Surname
- Walton AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Service number
- WWI 49660 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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About birth
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- Address before enlistment
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- Next of kin
- W.G. Walton (father), Pleasant Valley, Geraldine, New Zealand AWMM
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Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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- Army AWMM
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- WWI 49660 AWMM
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Training and Enlistment
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- Enlistment
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Farm hand/Civilian AWMM
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
- WW1 09 Jun 1917-16 Aug 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 85 AWMM Vessel was Willochra AWMM Private AWMM 26th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM
Prisoner of war
- Capture details
- WW1 POW - Germany AWMM
30 Sept 1918 AWMM - Days interned
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Medical history
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Biographical information
- Statement summary – Members of the 1st Canterbury Battalion
On the morning of 29 September 1918, seventeen personnel from the 1st Company, 1st Canterbury Battalion, were taken prisoner near Cambrai. Their party, under the command of Lieutenant Owen and Lieutenant Watts, advanced for approximately 90 minutes before losing contact with the main force. The group overshot their objective, a sunken road, and continued advancing under heavy machine-gun fire. Some sought cover in a trench, while others moved into a second sunken road. Attempts to return were blocked by German fire. When they tried to withdraw through a communication trench, they were surrounded and captured. None were wounded at the time of capture.
After capture, they were marched to a dressing station, then carried German wounded to Wallincourt, where they stayed overnight. The following day, they were taken to Caudry and given only barley water. They were then marched 25 kilometres to Le Quesnoy, staying for two weeks in poor conditions, sleeping on a stone floor with one blanket and minimal rations. A further ten-hour march to Feignies followed, with little to no food. After three days in a barn there, they endured a five-day journey in cattle trucks to Dulmen Camp, Germany, receiving limited food during the trip. They were held in quarantine at Dulmen after the Armistice. While the food remained poor, Red Cross parcels were received. Eventually, they were transferred to Holland, then to England.
The following members of the 1st Canterbury Battalion signed this statement: Private Victor Udy Trott (63793), Private Reginald Evans (55460), Private Donald Matheson McRae (6/96), Private Hermann Tritt (6/3491; also served under 824285 and 5/5/1549), Private John Earnest Graham (67625), Private Charles Edward Hack (70857), Private Stephen Vivian Whitta (55570), Private Vernon Maitland Wood (51462), Private George Ewen Hunt (72725), Private William Charles Edward Baldwin (72702), Private Charles Walton (49660), Private Frederick John Payne (64664), Private Ernest Humpherys (68721), Private Alexander McLean (59220), Private Sidney Barlow (62235), Private Daniel James (64847), and Private David Taylor (6/2298).
(Source: Prisoner of War – Statements collected, 14 December 1918, Archives New Zealand (R24428201)) AWMM
About death
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Memorial
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Sources
- External links
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22015681
Further Reference - Prisoner of War - Statements collected, 14 December 1918, Archives New Zealand (R24428201)
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24428201
Sources Used - Prisoner of War - Statements collected, 14 December 1918, Archives New Zealand (R24428201)
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R24428201
Sources Used
- Military personnel file
- References
- Information kindly provided by family
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
66: 12 - New Zealand Expeditionary Force - Prisoners of War Taken by the Enemy during (the) Period August 1914 to November 1918 [Listed by Surname in Alphabetical Order], Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R26112295)
- Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
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