Profile

RAYMENT, James Wilfred
(Service number 6/1964)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank

Birth

Date	20/04/1890	Place of Birth	Essex, England

Enlistment Information

Date	1 June 1915	Age	24
Address at Enlistment	217 Moorehouse Ave, Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation	Farmer for J Little, Hawarden
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John Rayment (father), Southgreen Cottages, Billericay, Essex, England
Religion	Church of England
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	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	17 April 1915
Transport	Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egypt 1915-16, Egypt Expeditionary Force 1916, Gallipoli 1915, Western Europe 1916
Service Medals
Military Awards

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

Death

Date	7 September 1916	Age	26
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France
Memorial Reference	II. D. 29
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Son of John and Dudly Rayment, of 5 South Green Cottages, Billericay, Essex, England

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database (May 2014)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

JCl

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