RUSSELL, Ernest Percival
(Service number 36049)
| First Rank | Trooper | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 16 Jun 1885 | Place of Birth | Poplar, London, England |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Cains Terrace, Timaru | ||
| Occupation | Veterinary assisitant | ||
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| Next of Kin | Mrs JK. RUSSELL (mother), 676 Commercial Road, London, England; Mr W. OWERS (friend), Cains Terrace, Timaru | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | New Zealand Expeditionary Force | ||
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| 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 | |
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Military Awards
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| Service Medals | British War Medal; Victory Medal | ||
Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 25 June 1958 | Age | 77 years |
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| Place of Death | Lynton, Normandy, Surrey, England | ||
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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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