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THOUMINE, David Edward
(Service number 10405)

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First Rank Private Last Rank Private

Birth

Date 3 January 1892 Place of Birth Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Kaponga
Occupation Cheese maker
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin Peter THOUMINE (father), Kaponga, Taranaki
Religion Methodist
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 12th Reinforcements, Wellington Infantry Battalion, J Company
Date 6 May 1916
Transport Mokoia or Navua
Embarked From Destination Suez, Egypt
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion

Military Awards

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Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

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Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
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Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date 1 October 1916 Age 24 years
Place of Death Somme, France
Cause Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

David Edward Thoumine was the third son of Peter and Louisa (née Bryan) Thoumine. His grandfather (Peter Thoumine) had come from Guernsey, Channel Islands, to New Zealand and married in 1862 at Timaru. He was accidentally shot in June 1869 while pig-hunting at Otaio Station. Born on 3 January 1892 at Timaru, he was educated at Masterton School, the family having moved north before David had his fifth birthday. Like his brother Peter, David was a cheese maker for the Kaponga Dairy Company. David embarked in 1916 with his brother Leonard, who may well have been with him when he was killed in action five months later. Two of his brothers – Lawrence Cecil Thoumine (Cecil) and Leonard Stuart Thoumine – served in World War I; and his oldest brother, Peter, enlisted in 1918. His cousin, Francis Cecil Rogers, also served, and Arthur David Rogers enlisted; another cousin, Horace James Prattley, was killed in action in 1916 (the same day as David) at the Somme. Both his parents died at Kaponga, Louisa in 1909 and Peter in 1927, when he was remembered for his time at Temuka and Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database [06 February 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [06 February 2020]; School Admission record [06 February 2020]; Timaru Herald, 9 June 1869, Temuka Leader, 22 December 1927 (Papers Past) [06 February 2020]

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