Profile

VENNING, Samuel James
(Service number 16015)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	30 July 1883	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Grocer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Mary VENNING (mother), Russell Square, Timaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	14th Reinforcements, J Company
Date	26 June 1916
Transport	Tahiti or Maunganui
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards	Military Medal

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date	12 August 1955	Age	72 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Kelvin Grove Cemetery, Palmerston North
Memorial Reference	Section D, Block 13, Plot 9
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Samuel James Venning was the fifth son of John and Mary Ann (née Brennan) Venning.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [14 February 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [14 February 2018]; Kelvin Grove Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [22 March 2018]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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