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Claude Searle Pownceby

1878-1916

Unit

Main Body

Section

Section No.2

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1384

About

Born in England

14 July 1878
Residence

Hometown

Waihi
Work

Occupation

Gold-miner

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company
Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

A. Lillian Pownceby

Army Experience

  • London Artillery Volunteer Corps

    United Kingdom

    • World War I (1914-1918)

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    British War Medal ribbon

    British War Medal

    Victory Medal ribbon

    Victory Medal

    Death

    Died at the age of 38

    14 September 1916

    Sources

    Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

    New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5550 38/0064215, Military Personnel File.

    Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 3.

    How to cite this page

    Anthony Byledbal, “Claude Searle Pownceby (1878-1916)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/698

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