Profile

CRONE, Arthur
(Service number 70931)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	13/07/1890	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Leonard Street, Waimate
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Thomas W. CRONE (father), Leonard Street, Waimate
Religion	Salvation Army
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	36th Reinforcements
Date	23 April 1918
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Southampton, Hampshire, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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

Farmer

Death

Date	11 June 1963	Age	72 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Riverton Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Arthur Crone was the son of Thomas Wilson and Jane (née Ball) Crone. He returned to New Zealand on the Maunganui in June 1919. His brother James Joseph Crone was killed in action in 1916 at the Somme, and his brother George also served.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [17 March 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) 17 March 2018]; Riverton Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch cemetery records) [18 March 2018]; Timaru Herald, 16 June 1919 (Papers Past) [17 March 2018]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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