4/1384 - Sapper

Claude Searle

POWNCEBY

Main Body - Section No.2

Timeline


1915

1915

25 September

Enlistment

Auckland Military District

1915

11 October

Initial training

Avondale, Auckland

1915

27 November

Promoted Lance Corporal

1915

18 December

Transfer to England

S.S. Ruapehu

1916

1916

3 February

Marched in to the Company Training Camp, Falmouth

1916

9 March

Embarked for France

1916

16 March

From the Front

The Company joined the underground warfare in the North of France

Chantecler, Sector of Arras

1916

14 September

Killed in action

Killed during a raid with Cheshire Regiment, Chantecler (Arras)

Resting place

Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, France

Grave reference

No grave - Bay 10

Decoration

British War Medal
British War Medal

Victory Medal
Victory Medal

Sources and bibliography

  • Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau: Claude Searle POWNCEBY.
  • Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Wellington, Government Printer, 1916, p. 3.

How to cite this page

Anthony BYLEDBAL, “Claude Searle POWNCEBY (4/1384)”, New Zealand Tunnellers, 2024 (2009). Accessed: 28 April 2024. URL: https://www.nztunnellers.com/roll/details.php?id=698