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RUSSELL, Ernest Percival
(Service number 36049)

Aliases
First Rank Trooper Last Rank

Birth

Date 16/06/1885 Place of Birth Poplar, London, England

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Cains Terrace, Timaru
Occupation Veterinary assisitant
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Mrs JK. RUSSELL (mother), 676 Commercial Road, London, England; Mr W. OWERS (friend), Cains Terrace, Timaru
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 24th Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles
Date 19 April 1917
Transport Moeraki; transferred to Port Sydney at Sydney
Embarked From Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals British War Medal; Victory Medal
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

Poultry farmer

Death

Date 25 June 1958 Age 77 years
Place of Death Lynton, Normandy, Surrey, England
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Ernest Percival Russell was born on 16 June 1881 (personnel file records 1885) at Poplar, London, the son of Joseph William and Catherine (née Baxter) Russell, who had married in 1879. In 1891 young Ernest and a brother were pupils at The Rookery, Kings Norton, Worcestershire. In 1901 he was a verterinary student residing at home. Joseph William Russell died on 17 October 1914 at Woodford Green, Essexbate granted to his widow Catherin Russell, and a son, James Victor Russell. When Ernest enlisted with the New Zealand Forces on 2 November 1916, he was a veterinary assistant residing at Cains Terrace, Timaru. He had been in New Zealand for eight years. E. P. Russell, 36049, of Timaru, returned to New Zealand from Egypt, in a draft of 1095, per the “Ulimaroa”, which was due at Auckland on 6 August 1919. On 14 October 1922, at the Cathedral Church of St Andrew, Sydney, New South Wales, Ernest Percival Russell married English-born Maude Eliza Jackson. Ernest, Maude and their two children, Anna C. (8 years) and William P. (7 years), took a trip home to England in 1932 per the “Esperance Bay”. Ernest was then 50 years old and a poultry farmer. Ernest Percival Russell, a retired poultry farmer of The Orchard, Medstead, Hampshire, died on 25 June 1958 at Lynton, Normandy, Surrey, England, aged 77 years. Adminstration of his estate was granted to his daughter, Anne Catherine Harrison - £2549.16s.11d. His wife, Maude eliza Russell, had died on 16 January 1958.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [29 October 2020]; 1891, 1901 England census returns (ancestry.com.au) [29 November 2020]; England Birth Index [29 November 2020]; Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Register – marriage record (per ancestry.com.au) [29 November 2020]; Shipping record (ancestry.com.au) [29 November 2020]; UK Probate Index (ancestry.com.au) [29 November 2020]; NZ Times, 31 July 1919 (Papers Past) [29 October 2020]

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