Unknown

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

27 Feb 1883 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Pre 1915 AWMM 91 Fendalton Road, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Mrs E.J. Lavie (wife), 91 Fendalton Road, Christchurch, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Married AWMM
Married, 2 children AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Military training

School of Instruction, Zeitoun, Machine Gun Class, Course 11, 1916 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 1915 AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 09 Oct 1915-30 Nov 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 32 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Second Lieutenant AWMM Canterbury Infantry Battalion AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lieutenant/Military AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment AWMM

Death

11 Jun 1916 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France AWMM II. A. 41 AWMM

Obituary

Obituary: Sumner Ripples, 1 July 1916 AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10929224
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7880331
  Further Reference
• Personal. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14120, 23 June 1916, Page 4
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TC19160623.2.26&srpos
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/276712/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/276712
  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.
  Vol1: 407
• 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. 1: Includes portrait
• 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. 4: Includes portrait
• Information kindly provided by family
• Dry Rations, or, The Aparima Apparition : with which is incorporated the Waikanae wash-out and The Tauherenikau trumpeter : unofficial organ of the 7th Rfts, Transport No. 32
• 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.