BOND, William Nathaniel Carlon (Service number 18499)
A page from the family photograph album featuring William Bond. The album features a number of images of Bond in uniform (South Canterbury Museum 2024/139.012, page 8)A page from the family photograph album featuring William Bond. The album features a number of images of Bond in uniform (South Canterbury Museum 2024/139.012 page 56)
Aliases
First Rank
Major
Last Rank
Birth
Date
04/09/1865
Place of Birth
Romansleigh, Devon, England
Enlistment Information
Date
Age
Address at Enlistment
"Argyle", Waikaia, Southland
Occupation
Sheep farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Married. Two children (one deceased)
Next of Kin
Mrs Ethel Mary BOND (wife), Claremont, 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
Hospital Ship No. 1, 4th, 5th, 8th & 9th Voyages from New Zealand
Date
Transport
Maheno
Embarked From
Destination
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
Sheep farmer
Death
Date
13 September 1945
Age
80 years
Place of Death
12 Sefton Street, Timaru
Cause
Notices
Press, 14 September 1945
Memorial or Cemetery
Cremated; ashes interred St Peter's Anglican Churchyard, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials
Biographical Notes
William Nathaniel Carlon Bond was born on 4 September 1865 at Romansleigh, Devon, England, the son of the Rev. John Hamilton Bond and Rosa Jane née Carlon. In 1871 William and two older sisters were scholars with their widowed mother in London. He was a scholar at the “Royal Academy”, Alverstoke, Hampshire, in 1881. He came to New Zealand in 1886 and joined his brother, Mr John Hamilton Carlon Bond, in partnership at Mt Algidus Station. He married Ethel Mary Elworthy on 4 February 1900 at St Mary’s, Timaru. Sara Maude Hamilton Bond (born 1902), Mary Hamilton Bond (born 31 December 1906 and baptized 17 February 1907 at St Mary’s) and Nancy Bray Bond (born 1909) were all born at Timaru. Sara died in 1904, aged 2 years, while Mary lived till 2002, and Nancy (Mrs Webb) died in 1988. Lieutenant-Colonel William Nathaniel Carlon Bond, 1st Regiment, South Canterbury Mouted Rifles Volunteers, resigned as a volunteer officer in April 1909. In June 1913 he was to be a major. Major Bond enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and embarked four times on the Hospital Ship Maheno. William Nathaniel Carlon Bond died on 13 September 1945 at Timaru, aged 80 years. He had been farming at Dunrobin, Mossburn, Southland. He was cremated and his ashes interred at St Peter’s Churchyard, Upper Riccarton. His brother and sister-in-law and his mother, Rosa Jane Bond, are all buried at St Peter’s. The Reverend John Hamilton Bond had died on 3 July 1865 at the Rectory House, Romansleigh. When the war broke out and “Europe was ablaze”, a call was made for volunteers for service and “Claremont did its full share”. One of the Claremont men who gave service was Major W. N. Bond, R.Q.M.S.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [25 September 2021]; St Peter’s Anglican Churchyard, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, headstone transcription [25 September 2021]; NZ Times, 30 April 1909, Star, 13 June 1913, Press, 13 September 1945 (Papers Past) [25 September 2021]
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